If they show prison break in the United States on a wednesday, by thursday it is here: Mobile media networks in twenty-first-century Cuba

Television and New Media

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 399-414

  Pertierra, Anna Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

anthropology; consumption; Cuba; hard drives; informal economies; new media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865700978     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: 15528316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476412443564     Document Type: Article

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