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AARNET (Australian Academic and tion technologies, 296; confidence
Research Network), 308 in communication technology, 16,
abortion, CMC and debates over, 32n. 11; CSCW, characteristics of,
34n. 17 217f.; utopian/dystopian debate
access (to Information Technology), as (Carey), 2; values, 3 (see also
vs. caste interest (India), 299f.; democracy; equality; free speech;
commercialization as reinforcing, individualism; Western values);
amplifying unequal access, 251; values and global monoculture,
as empowering, 294; as not the 295f. (see also McWorld). See also
primary issue for feminism cultural hegemony, US, viii;
(Kuwait), 208f. See also commer- North American society, 219
cialization; CMC; Digital Divide; Andhra Pradesh (Indian state),
electronic networks; Internet; 301, 304n. 3
haves and have-nots; power; “Anglophonic tide,” (Keniston),
power distance; status 286f.
active reception theories (communi- Anglo-Saxon, discussion of CMC,
cation), 215 17f.; monoculture, 295f. (see also
activism, shaped by local demands, British colonialism, 5, 289; Mc-
10, 208; cf. “mouse-click World); values and colonialism,
activism,” 80 290. See also English
Aboriginal art (cover), xiii–xiv “Annette’s Philosophenstübchen”
Adorno, Theodor, 35n. 18 (German philosophy website), 143
Africa, British colonialism and, 289; anonymity, associated with flaming
and Islam, 32n. 9; language- in Japanese writing on CMC,
power fusion in, 290. See also 268f.; allowing free expression
Francophonic Africa, 286 (Korea), 271f.; encouraging ag-
African, African-Americans (in- gressive communicative behavior,
cluded in listserv study), 168;— 261; lack of on the Internet
women as participating more in (Kuwait), 203. See also face-to-
class than on-line, 181 face communication
age, as factor in Web access appropriate technology, 214
(Kuwait), 190 anti-technology culture, 10
agnosticism, religious (as Western Arabic, 10, 19; scrolling from right
value), viii to left, 284;—societies as high
alphabet system (Korean), 12f., 274 context/low content, 32n. 9, 36n.
American, belief in communication 21. See also Islam; Islamic world
technology as central to spread of Arizpe, Lourdes (UNESCO), 187
democratic polity, 18; communica- ARPANET, as start of Internet, 100

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