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Just a couple of thoughts: while I think that the internet and other forms of ‘new media’ have a great deal of potential, some of it already being realized, for liberatory movements and post-capitalist and post-statist configurations, I also have to think about other ways in which the decentralized, somewhat ‘leveled’ networks of the internet are used. For instance, the internet is and will probably continue to be a channel of ‘grassroots’ xenophobia and nationalism, generated outside of ‘official’ networks and building upon the ideology that lies deeper than message control or press releases or other ‘official’ forms of communication- or of ‘official’ marketing and consumerist campaigns. To give very recent examples, I think of the recent anti-Japanese protests in China, the protests in various nations against the anti-Muhammad film, and the wave of (false) rumours in Ame...

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