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cultural homogenization, CMC and, search and, 7, 89–92; transna-
viii. See also cultural diversity; tional, 37n. 23, 219f.; too vague to
CMC; electronic networks; En- explain divergent attitudes, 273;
glish; homogenization; Internet; as variable in technology design,
McWorld; technological determin- 218; worldview and, 20f. See also
ism American; British colonialism, 5,
cultural identity, as dynamic (Thai), 289; consumer culture; cosmopoli-
321f.; Swiss research program, tan culture; cross-cultural contact;
152–54; threatened by CMC, 2. cultural factors; cultural identity;
See also CMC; electronic net- cultural values; diffusion theory;
works; English; Internet; techno- global; global culture; local cul-
logical instrumentalism ture; meta-culture, 72; modern lib-
cultural imperialism, 4, 27. See also eral culture, 319f.; religion; “thick”
colonialism, British, 5, 289; cul- and “thin” (Walzer); values; West-
tural capital; cultural hegemony; ern ideals; Western values
Jihad vs. McWorld culture shock, 24, 39n. 28
cultural power, of new technology “culture theory” (Fouser), 12f.,
(Korea), 255 268–73
cultural relativism, 88 cybercafe, vii, 191. See also Internet
cultural universals, 88. See also cafes
universals “cyber-centrism” (ethnocentrism), 18
cultural values, Japanese, 10, 230f.; cyber-gnosticism (dualism), 23
study as Korean c.v., 255. See also cyberspace, democracy and, 1; as
American values; values; Western extension of social practices
values (Kuwait), 202. See also chat
cultural studies, vs. Kulturwis- rooms; CMC; democracy; egalitar-
senschaften, 31n. 5 ianism; electronic networks;
cultural tourist, 26f. equality; Information Technology;
culture, definitions of, 20, 37n. 23, interactive networks; Internet;
88f., 218–20; listserv; mailing lists; Usenet
Geertz’s definition, 20f., 88;
operational definitions of, 20, Dahan, Michael, 35n. 17
37n. 23; efforts to quantify, 89 Davidson, Donald, 39n. 28, 316
epistemology and, 21; and face con- democracy, as American value, 3; as
cern, 163f.; as individual attribute countered by symbolic power,
and collective phenomenon, 218; 258; global, 25; India as world’s
as indivisible, 115n. 1; national, largest, 14, 302; and Liberation
efforts to define, 218; national, Theology, 36n. 19; libertarian, 6;
role of in Information Systems, “natural limits” (Plato), 2; “noise”
215; Internet, 315ff.; Internet— as obstacle to, 6f., 79; obstacles to
distinguished from Western cul- in CMC, 6; parochial relation
ture, 317; referring to norms and with Internet, 323n. 8; participa-
values, 21; occupational, 219f.; or- tory (Barber), 14; in the Philip-
ganizational, 37n. 23, 89, 220; pines, 35n. 19; plebiscite, 6, 68;
pragmatic definition of, 151; pro- “postmodern” (Poster), 323n. 8; as
fessional, 218–20; quantitative re- problematic for postmodernism,