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In this exciting and informative new book Thomas L Blair explores possibly one of the most important but little understood elements in the successful election of the new president of the United States Barack Obama. The successful mobilization of young Black Americans through community social based Internet networks. Continue reading... Studying Obama's net-geners and Internet-savvy voters reveals how the status quo has been shaken-up forming digital future which is all about community self-reliance and development, not just bogging However, the brilliance of Internet social networking was clear at least a decade before. Globally, the children of the digital age had been changing the way their communities access and use the Internet and computers for equality and social justice. Impressing Senator Obama, a former community organiser in the politically volatile, working poor voting districts of Chicago. In 'The Race For Cyberspace Blair explains the radical influence the internet and its use by young Black Americans has had in the process behind the successful election of the first Black American President in its History and its further influence in validating communication from the most neglected ethnic communities on earth in Sub Saharan Africa .He enables an understanding of the sea change that has taken place amongst Black and Ethnic groups in the USA over the past decade. Further to this the back ground to how these groups have used the online world and community integrated firmly within their psyche social framework gives hope and shape to the development of a new meaning to the term global village and the realization of a better scope of possibilities for ethnic and black communities in North America. Possibilities that extend beyond the political, into the arenas of justice and social inclusion. What young black Americans have done today, the global dispossessed will do tomorrow. The Internet is not only the harbinger of a more democratic order; it is the hope for a more just world. The Race for Cyber space studies the promise that these developments offer to the entire world. The marginal, the alienated, the dispossessed, excluded tribes and despised ethnicities, whether they be peoples of rainforests or the wanderers of deserts, all can find it in the Internet the royal road to freedom


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  • ISBN-13: 9781907759406
  • Publisher: M-Y Books
  • Publisher Imprint: M-Y Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1907759409
  • Publisher Date: 23 Jul 2010
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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