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326 Contributors

E-mail: sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au, <http://www.it.murdoch.
edu.au/~sudweeks>

Johannes M. Bauer is an associate professor in the Department of
Telecommunication at Michigan State University. He received a
Ph.D. in economics from the University of Economics and Business
Administration, Vienna, Austria. In 1990 he joined the faculty of
Michigan State University as an assistant professor. His research
interests are the evolution of competition in telecommunications and
energy, the design of optimal regulatory policies, the impact of dif-
ferent legal and institutional regimes on the performance of infra-
structure industries, the domestic and international strategies of
infrastructure service providers, and policies supporting the deploy-
ment of advanced telecommunications technologies. He has pub-
lished widely on issues of telecommunications and regulatory
reform.

Barbara Becker is a philosopher at the Institute for Autonomous
Intelligent Systems, National Center for Information Technology
(GMD), Germany. Using philosophical and sociological approaches,
her areas of research and publication include body and identity, cog-
nitive science (embodied mind), phenomenology and critical theory,
virtual identities and embodiment in virtual environments, and vir-
tual communities. She enjoys nature and many kinds of music, art,
literature of the twentieth century, and cinema.

Robert J. Fouser is Associate Professor of English and linguistics
at Kumamoto Gakuen University in Kumamoto, Japan. His major
fields of interest are sociolinguistics, second language acquisition,
computer-mediated communication, and Korean cultural studies.
He has published numerous papers in these fields in Asia, Europe,
and the United States. He writes a weekly column for The Korea
Herald, a major English-language daily in Seoul, and has written
several vernacular papers in Japan and Korea. Besides journalism,
his hobbies are photography, mountain climbing, and language
learning.

Lorna Heaton is sessional lecturer at the University of Montreal.
She has travelled widely in Asia, Europe and North America. She
has recently published in the Journal of Information Technology
(1998: v. 13), Industry and Higher Education (1998 v. 12 no.4) and
the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (fall 1999),