Elaine Diaz
Monday, May 4, 2015
Topic: What's up with Cuba?
Elaine Díaz is a Cuban blogger, journalist and professor at the University of Havana where she teaches courses focusing on digital journalism, communication, technology and society, and alternative journalism on the web. She has written about digital communication, technology infrastructure and the digital divide for Cuban and international outlets.
From 2010 to 2012, Diaz worked as part of the local government of her municipality.
Díaz is the sole Cuban author for Global Voices and has blogged for La Polemica Digital (The Digital Controversy) about social problems and the politics of online expression in Cuba.
She completed an MA in communications in 2014 at the University of Havana. She studied the current state of the Cuban blogosphere and its possibilities to promote processes of public deliberation and consensus-building. Díaz was part of the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Class of 2014 and she is currently a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.