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and is completing a book which explores the impact of culture on
computer and software design in Scandinavia and Japan.

Susan C. Herring is Associate Professor of Information Science and
Linguistics at Indiana University. One of the first researchers to in-
vestigate gender differences in computer-mediated communication,
she has also pioneered in the application of linguistic methods to
computer-mediated discourse and the study of change in Internet
communication patterns over time. She has lectured on CMC in the
US, the UK, Canada, Mexico, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden
and Japan, has been interviewed on CNN and the NBC Nightly
News, and her work has been written up in Newsweek and the New
York Times. Her publications include Computer-Mediated Commu-
nication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (John
Benjamins, 1996), Computer-Mediated Conversation (Oxford Uni-
versity Press, forthcoming), and numerous articles on CMC in books
and journals. Currently her research interests center on the impact
of emerging CMC technologies on social interaction; the effects of
user demographics and context on CMC use; and the applications of
CMC research to system design.
E-mail: herring@indiana.edu

Soraj Hongladarom is an assistant professor of philosophy at Chu-
lalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. His most recent publica-
tions include aThai-language monograph on Horizons of Philosophy:
Knowledge, Philosophy and Thai Society, to be published by the
Thailand Research Fund, as well as many articles on epistemology,
philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and the philosophical
and social aspects of Buddhism. Currently he is undertaking a two-
year research project, granted by the Thailand Research Fund, on
science in Thai culture. He is also organizing a panel on this theme
at the 7th International Conference on Thai Studies. Papers from
this panel, guest edited by him, will appear in a special issue of Sci-
enceAsia. His hobbies are walking, swimming, and immersing him-
self in the Internet.

Herbert Hrachovec is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the
Department of Philosophy at Vienna University. He administers a
wide range of net-resources of philosophical interest, including the
German-language listserv, register. He publishes extensively in the
area of computer-mediated communications.
Homepage: http://hhobel.phl.univie.ac.at/~herbert.