This book makes a contribution to the debates on diasporic identities and transnational communication. It provides an analysis of the Cuban American community and its relationship to Miami-based English- and Spanish-language media. Based on extensive ethnographic data, the author demonstrates how different media have been used, produced and influenced by segments of the Cuban American community in Miami.
After establishing the significance of Miami as a locale to receive a high number of migrants after the Cuban revolution in 1959, what follows is an exploration of the interplay of collective Cuban American identity and the evolution of an exile community on the one hand and media institutions and their output on the other. In doing so, Miami-based press, radio, network television and online media are examined. The author moreover shows how mediated memories of pre-revolutionary Cuba have been kept alive in Miami and over time became more inclusive through the use of new media technologies.

Christine Lohmeier works at the University of Munich. She lives in Munich, Germany.

Christine Lohmeier
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 212
Bibliographic Info: appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2014
pISBN: 978-0-7864-6894-2
eISBN: 978-1-4766-1339-0
Imprint: McFarland

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Preface 1
Introduction 3
1. Place and Space: Miami—Havana, USA? 23
2. Spanish–and ­English-Language Newspapers in Miami 39
3. Miami’s Cuban American Radio Scene 67
4. Spanish-Language Television, Cuban Americans and Hispanic Audiences 84
5. The Internet: An Emerging Transnational Sphere? 107
6. The Politics of Memory: Pre-Revolutionary Cuba 124
Conclusion 140
Epilogue 150
Appendix A 155
Appendix B 175
Appendix C 178
Chapter Notes 179
References 186
Index 197