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Gulfnet (Kuwaiti Internet Service Hindi, 288, 298, 299, 300, 303n. 3;
Provider), 190 included in Windows NT, 292; lo-
Gulf War, news of as example of al- cale coding of, 292f.; MS-DOS for,
ternative public sphere, 81; 292; requiring non-Roman char-
women’s activities during acter sets, 284
(Kuwait), 201 Hindustani, 288, 303n. 3
Hofstede, Geert, 3, 7, 9, 20, 22, 32n.
Habermas, Jürgen, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 20, 10, 89, 91, 116n. 4; and habitus
21, 33n. 14, 34n. 17, 36n. 19, 38n. (Bourdieu), 219
24, 79f. See also democracy; de- homepages, see Web homepages
mocratization; mass media; mobi- homogenization, 17, 27, 35n. 18. See
lizing function of, 77f.; partial also cultural homogenization;
publics; public sphere globalization; McWorld
habitus (Bourdieu), 11f., 20, 32n. Hong Kong, and British colonial-
10, 37n. 22, 236n. 4, 242–44, 245, ism, 289; Internet hosts per GNP,
259n. 1; and Hofstede, 219; jour- 265; and McWorld, 295
nalistic discourse as part of host counts (Internet), in Kuwait,
(Korea), 252; and scientism, 252; 190; as measure of Internet
of young Koreans, 252–58. See growth, 100; per GNP in Asia, 265
also positive power; symbolic HTML (HyperText Markup Lan-
power; symbolic violence guage), design, vs. writing, 140f.
Hall, Edward, 9, 11, 20, 226, 228, 231 Humanists, vs. technophilia, 141
Hamburg University, 143 human rights, as part of (Western)
Hanguerae (Korean newspaper), liberal democratic culture, 319;
247ff. whether part of Western or cos-
Haraway, Donna, 23, 39n. 27 mopolitan culture, 319f. See also
Haru (Japanese film about chat- values; Western culture; Western
room romance), 266f. values
haves and have-nots (Digital), 1, 62, hybrids, cultural, 24ff., 40n. 31;
(US) 294; closing the gap be- CSCW as—of social, technical,
tween, 15; English as amplifying 213
gap between, 294; Kuwaiti Hyper-mail (software), limits of, 139
women divided along lines of, hypertext, 1, 6, 8, 64; and demo-
208. See also cultural have-nots, cratic personality (Adorno), 35n.
Digital Divide 18; as materializing Barthes
Hebrew, scrolling right to left, 284 and Derrida, 140. See also
Hegelian mediation of mailing-list multimedia
tensions, 140
Herbig, (Paul A.), 7, 99 Iceland, 286
hermeneutics, 20 icons (computer), as culturally-lim-
hexis (Bourdieu), 244 ited, 284
Herring, Susan, 9, 22, 164, 166 identity, as dynamic rather than
high content/low context vs. high static, 321f.; as part of philosophi-
context/low content (Hall), 9f., 11, cal worldview, 3; real-life, 137;
16, 31n. 9, 36n. 21, 162–64, 168, real vs. virtual in postmodernism,
231 22 (see also embodiment)