USA Africa Dialogue Series - Civil Society 2.0? How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes

Taking the case of state-socialist Cuba, a diachronic comparison analyzes civil society dynamics prior to the Internet in the early to mid-1990s, and then a decade later, after digital and web-based media made their way onto the island. The study finds that in the pre-Internet period, the focus was on behind-the-scenes struggles for associational autonomy within the state-socialist framework. A decade later, web-based communication technologies have supported the emergence of a new type of public sphere in which the civil society debate is marked by autonomous citizen action

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