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privilege, etc., 14, 299; as symbolic corporated in Japanese CSCW
power, 255–57; on the Web, viii design (ClearBoard), 225; as rude
English language ability, as cultural in Japanese culture, 225
factor in technological diffusion,
7f., 92, 99, 106; as more important Face, 31n. 9
predictor for when countries first Face-Negotiation Theory (Ting-
adopt the Internet, 115 Toomey), 9, 163f., 168
English-speaking countries, com- face-to-face communication, con-
petitive advantage of, viii trasted with anonymity in CMC,
English-speaking population, South 261, 271f.; as more empowering
nd
Asia as containing 2 largest in for women (Kuwait), 203; as
the world, 287f. more hospitable for women, 181;
environmental movements, as par- importance of eye contact for,
tial public spheres, 81 225; as made possible by cyber-
epistemology, culture and, 21 space (Korea), 272, (Kuwait),
equality, as Anglo-Saxon value, 290; 198; non-verbal elements of as
as American value, 3; called into heightening awareness of intent,
question, 16; countered by emer- reactions, 227; as preserving pri-
gence of social hierarchy on mail- vacy; 203; simulation of as goal
ing lists, 136; as furthered by of Japanese CSCW, 232, 234; as
CMC, 10, 187; as problematic for necessary for trust-building, 233;
postmodernism, 21. See also as uncomfortable for women
CMC; democracy; electronic net- (Kuwait), 191. See also commu-
works; egalitarianism; gender nication; non-verbal communica-
equality; Internet tion; peripheral awareness
“ethnic cleansing,” and Jihad, 296 facial expression, 225. See also non-
ethnic groups, heterogeneity of and verbal communication
technology diffusion, 92 fallacy, ecological (fallacy of divi-
ethnocentrism, 5, 18; vs. cultural sion), 90
universals, cultural relativism, family resemblance (Wittgenstein),
88; low—as predictor of interac- as holding together use of “global”
tive network diffusion, 159. See in media theory and philosophy,
also universals 141
ethnographic research (of Internet fascism, 21; as destructive term in
development and impact), 188 mailing list, 136f.
ethnographic study, Korea, 11, fax machines, 61, 65; as correlated
252–58 with GDP and teledensity, 103; as
European CSCW, characteristics of, correlated with Internet growth,
217 112; as elements of telecommuni-
European Economic Area, Swiss cations network, 98; as embraced
voting by language groups, 152 by Japanese, 267, 273; as proxies
European Union, 288, 304n. 3 for objective measurement of in-
eye contact, direct (as Western novation compatibility, 114
style), 11; importance of for face- Federalist Papers, 1f.
to-face communication, 225; in- Feenburg, Andrew, 33n. 14