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computer literacy theory (Fouser), in, 217, 224; interpersonal space
12f., 273ff. in, 224, 226; personal space in,
“computer-mediated space of Rea- 226f.; national differences
son,” 140 (American, European, Japanese)
computer use, length of (Nomura in, 217; paper-based media and,
survey), 274 223; professional attitudes (com-
Confucian ideal of chün-tzu, 26 puter scientists, social scientists,
consumer culture, global, 2. See managers/end-users), 219; sense
also McWorld of shared space in, 224, 231;
copy protection, failure of technol- transnational cultures in, 219f.;
ogy to provide, 60f. video as medium in, 223, 228,
copyright, technology and, 59 233; virtual distance, 228; vir-
cosmopolis (single global culture), tual space, 230
17 cultural bias, CMC and, ix. See also
cosmo-politan (citizen of the world), CMC; electronic networks; En-
18 glish; Internet; technological in-
cosmopolitan, as Stoic, 27;—culture strumentalism
as distinct from Western culture, cultural capital (Bourdieu), 6, 11,
317f.;—culture as sanitized, di- 76, 243, 245; as contributing to
vorced from ritual, 315f.; global the reproduction of existing
village as—18; “umbrella—cul- power, 258; education as, 258;
ture” 16 English as, 12, 76, 256f. See also
cosmopolitanism, of electronic habitus; meconnaissance
global village, as ethnocentric, 5; “cultural creep,” 221, 227f.
intercultural, 5, 25f. cultural diversity, vs. global mono-
cost, of on-line services as barrier culture, 295; Jihad and, 296; in
(Japan), 275 India, 296f., 302. See also cul-
cost, international call, as factor of tural capital; cultural hegemony,
technology diffusion, 7; 106–8; as US, viii, 295; cultural homoge-
strong predictor of Internet diffu- nization and CMC, viii; cultural
sion, 113 imperialism, 4, 27; Jihad vs. Mc-
Costa Rica, Internet diffusion in, World
110f. cultural factors, contra localization
cross-cultural communication, 9, (India), 300; as less powerful pre-
162; and gender, 164–66. See also dictors than economic, infrastruc-
intercultural communication ture variables, 7, 103; and
cross-cultural contact, facilitated by localization, 302n. 1; in technol-
CMC, vii, 161 ogy diffusion, 98f. See also “cul-
CSCW (computer-supported collab- ture theory” (Fouser), 12f.,
orative work), Japanese, 10f., 268–73
31n. 9; body language in, 228; “cultural groups,” defined, ix. See
definition of, 216f.; as comple- also culture, definitions of
mentary to, not replacement for, cultural have-nots, 12, 257. See also
traditional work, 232; eye con- haves, have-nots
tact in, 225, 228; gaze awareness cultural hegemony, US, viii. See
in, 223, 225, 227f., 233; gesture also McWorld as American, 295