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East-West, 10–13, 19 tion styles; men; women); as rein-
economic arguments, as self-con- forcing gender boundaries
firming, 299 (Kuwait), 194; resulting in “par-
economic indicators, as unreliable, ticular publics,” 75; as segment-
inaccurate measures, 90 ing communication flow, 74; as
education, as cultural capital, 258; threatening a public based on
as characteristic of early adopters, shared meaning, 79. See also chat
93; as facilitating Internet adop- rooms; CMC; CSCW; interactive
tion, 97; as factor in Web access networks; Information Technol-
(Kuwait), 190; as symbolic/institu- ogy; Internet; Internet cafes; list-
tional power, 11. See also cultural serv; mailing lists; Usenet
capital; symbolic power electronic technologies, extending
egalitarianism, global, as marker of the power of the already-powerful
CMC, 133; of the Internet as re- (historical rule), 294
sisted by political authorities, Ellul, Jacques, 33n. 14
316f.; of mailing lists as conflict- e-mail, discourse characteristics of,
ing with hierarchical require- 134f.
ments of ordinary teaching, 139; embodiment, and cyberspace, 22;
whether part of Western or cos- and gender, 22f. See also bodily
mopolitan culture, 319f. See also presence/absence, 135; disembod-
CMC; democracy; electronic net- iment
works; equality; Internet empowerment, myth of via technol-
Eisenstein, (Elizabeth), 54 ogy, 141
electricity, and Tesla’s conception of English, as amplifying gap between
a global communication network, haves, have-nots, 294; and British
53f. colonialism, 289; as constituting
“electronic classroom” metaphor, of habitus, 256; as cultural capital,
limited use, 139 12, 76, 256f.; hegemony of, 286f.;
Electronic Frontier Foundation, 23 as imposing constraints on use of
electronic global village, vii, 1, 16; the Net, 133; India’s love affair
cosmopolitanism of, as ethnocen- with, 300; interest in learning
tric, 5; as resting on technological higher in Korea than in Japan,
instrumentalism/determinism, 276; language as bias, viii; as lan-
18f.; intercultural persons as nec- guage of all operating systems,
essary to, 25f. most applications, 283; as lan-
electronic networks, as overcoming guage of privilege, power (South
economic inequalities, 187; as “in- Asia), 289, (Thailand), 315; as lan-
dividual media,” 73; as embed- guage of ca. 7% of world’s popula-
ding Western male values, 181; as tion, 283; as lingua franca of
embedding Western values, India, 288; as lingua franca of the
315–17; as interactive, participa- Web, 2, 13, 319; as medium of Thai
tory, 73; lower participation of Usenet group, 319; as mixed with,
women, minorities in, 161 (see opposed to, use of native Thai in
also Digital Divide; gender; haves newsgroup posts, 312–15; as rein-
and have-nots; male communica- forcing current patterns of power,