Mailing environment became the arena where the Somali factional Diaspora has been taking place enabling the groups to organize and communicate. In a way the mailing list medium has facilitated the some groups to take the Somali conflict outside the country. On the other hand, it is also where groups aiming as the supra-national level to meet and get together to help their folks at home. Whatever the objectives of the mailing groups, what influenced their discussions are mainly events at home.

Dr Abdisalams work is a unique study of the extraordinarily enthusiastic adoption of Computer Mediated Technology which has virtually transformed overnight this nation celebrated for its oral poetry. His conclusions are based on his intensive field research inside and outside Somalia, at home and amongst the scattered diaspora. Despite the fact that in Somalia itself only a very few people have direct access to the internet, the seemingly endless Somali civil is expressed in a vigorous media war with web groups offering a novel way of creating collective self-representation. This...