JOHN T. BARBER is the Deputy Chief Learning Officer of the Ballistic Missile Defense University in Washington, D.C., and an Adjunct Professor in the Communications Department at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Barber has over twenty-five years of experience as a media analyst, communications educator and scholar and broadcasting practitioner. His previous book, The Information Society and the Black Community (Praeger, 2000), was one of the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the prospects and pitfalls of a historically disadvantaged group in a period of rapid tech...