A brief summary and my reaction to Kahn & Kellner

Summary

Authors indicate 3 points.
Firstly, many emergent online communities today are moving toward reaffirming and reconfiguring what participatory and democratic global citizenship will look like in our emergent global/local future, even as more reactionary and hegemonic political forces attempt to do same.　People will accordingly focus on how online communities use information and communication technology to promote democracy and social justice on local and global scales.
Secondly, while emergent mobile technology provides yet another impetus toward experimental identity construction and identity politics, such networking also links diverse communities, providing the basis for a radically democratic politics of alliance and solidarity to overcome the limitations of postmodern identity politics.
Finally, Online activist subcultures have materialized in the last few years alone as a vital oppositional space of politics and culture in which a wide diversity of individual and online communities have used emergent technologies to help produce new social relations and forms of democratic political possibility. Many of these subcultures and different alternative voices and practices will appear as we navigate the increasingly complex present toward the ever receding future.

Reaction

I think politics will change by the developing of IT. I receive that authors has optimistic perspective that the developing of IT will makes politics be more democratic.