This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. This technology includes the internet, the computer, the cell phone, television, and radio, among others. Some of the specific expressions and phenomena treated include: tourism, big budget films, sports, video games, entertainment culture, religious and gospel culture, mobile culture, popular music, writing and technology, and porn. The work shows acute awareness of the wider global contexts--social, cultural, political, and spiritual--that form the backdrop for Caribbean cultural reconfiguration. Curwen Best argues that Caribbean culture has gone wireless, virtual, and simulated in the age of the machines.

Curwen Best is Senior Lecturer in English, University of the West Indies.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Caribbean Cyberculture in the Age of the Machines	p. 1
Discourse on Technology: Go Search, Go Figure	p. 7
Internet and the Culture Wars: Caribbean Literary/Cultural Studies in Cyberspace	p. 19
Cyber Reach: Caribbean Gospel (and Religious) Culture (Version 5.0)	p. 51
Caribbean Entertainment and Music Culture Pre- and Post-Internet	p. 91
Cricket (Sports) and the Digital Dispensation	p. 137
Video GameZ: Enter the Machines (Version 3.5)	p. 173
The Caribbean in Big-Budget Film: The Caribbean in Tourism	p. 191
Notes	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 243
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