A Brief Summary of Kahn and Kellner pp.183-185, pp.190-198

According to Kahn and Kellner, online communities can be used to promote participatory democracy and social justice on local and global scales by using the Internet, the new informational and communicational technologies. This is the main thesis of them. In addition, there are the reactions to recent users of the Internet, that is, terrorists, reactionaries and many kinds of ordinary people. In the example of Iraq War, terrorists certainly used the Internet for their actions and purposes, however, many kinds of ordinary people also used the Internet for promoting democracy and this effect is bigger than the effect of terrorists. Thus, the Internet can promote democracy.