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As the third millennium unfolds, the unrelenting expansion and development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is continuing to transform the ways that people work, communicate with each other, and spend their leisure time. Moreover, computer, information, communication, and multimedia technologies are key aspects of the production of an emergent economy described as postindustrial, post-Fordist, and postmodern, as it is accompanied by a networked society, cyberspace, and the juggernaut of globalization. There are, of course, furious debates about how to describe the Great Transformation of the contemporary epoch — whether it is positive or negative, whether it is indeed a ‘new’ economy at work or is simply a version of the old economy and society, and whether there are significant political prospects for democratization and radical social transformation, or accelerating crises of democracy, terrorism, war, and environmental degradation.1
A community will evolve only when a people control their own communication.
Frantz Fanon
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Kahn, R., Kellner, D. (2007). Globalization, Technopolitics, and Radical Democracy. In: Dahlberg, L., Siapera, E. (eds) Radical Democracy and the Internet. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592469_2
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