A Transnational History of the Internet in Central America, 1985–2000

Ignacio Siles is a professor of media and technology studies in the School of Communication, and a researcher in the Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) at the University of Costa Rica. He is the author of Networked Selves: Trajectories of Blogging in the United States and France (2017) and Por un sueño en.red.ado: Una historia de Internet en Costa Rica (2008), along with several articles on the relationship between technology, communication, and society.

1. "Follow the Networks".- 2. Matters of Central American Integration (1960s-1990s).- 3. The Founding Networks of Central America.- 4. An Internet for the Global South.- 5. A Central American Internet.- 6. Internet and Integration in the Era of Privatization.- 7. The Inconclusive Project of Technological Integration.

"A Transnational History is an attempt to detach the histories of the internet in Latin America from national narratives and early adopters. Siles's contribution interweaves local histories of technology, highlighting the common processes that made it possible to integrate the internet in Central America." (Fabian Prieto-Ñañez, Technology and Culture, Vol. 63 (2), April, 2022)

“A Transnational History is an attempt to detach the histories of the internet in Latin America from national narratives and early adopters. Siles’s contribution interweaves local histories of technology, highlighting the common processes that made it possible to integrate the internet in Central America.” (Fabian Prieto-Ñañez, Technology and Culture, Vol. 63 (2), April, 2022)