Maykel Perez
Research Student
Mr Maykel Perez Research Student
Room: A304
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB
abct353@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040
fax: +44 20 7040 8584
Overview
I am a doctoral candidate at the Department of Information Science, City University, London, where I started as research student in October 2007.
My research proposal aims to fill a gap in the literature discussing information policies in Cuba by concentrating on the conceptual frameworks that shape and legitimise the dominant model of information production, transfer, and consumption since the decade of the 1990s, and the expressions of tension and contradiction such model has produced across different layers of society. A qualitative research strategy combining discourse analysis, documentary research, and interviews aims to provide an understanding of the way in which official discourses and public definitions constrain what information systems can and should be used for, and how social actors articulate or contest such normative frameworks.
Information Policies and strategies are often approached from the perspective of economic science. However, the ideological realm is key to understand the nature of the political project of the Cuban Revolution, its constitution, viability, and eventually the possibility of its continuity.Therefore, the research proposed here will concentrate on the symbolic, discursive aspects that seem to be crucial in perceiving the Cuban reality in its complexity. From that framework, it will attempt to answer the following research questions:
- What discourses, public definitions, and conceptual frameworks are drawn upon and inform Cuban Information Policies and strategies?
- How the Cuban model of production, distribution, and consumption of information is shaped and legitimised by the dominant ideology?
- What are the main contradictions between Information Systems use in everyday life and the policies and strategies that frame those practices?
The research is being supervised by Dr. Tamara Eisenschitz and funded by a City University Studentship
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