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guage/culture of Switzerland, 8f., Kidnet (Korean elementary school
151f. network), 245, 246, 249–52, 254;
IYC (Internet Youth Camp—Korean criticized for commercialism,
college student network), 246, 254 251; as symbol of globalization
and international competitive-
Japan, 10f., 12f.; as analyzed by ness, 249
Hofstede, 219; Internet hosts in, knowledge, as part of philosophical
265; as mobile phone society, 276; worldview, 3; background—as
included in Nomura Survey, part of “thick” culture, 318
268–76; slow expansion of the In- Köhler, Dieter, 143
ternet in, 98 Kolb, David, 28, 31n. 7
Japanese, 13;—CSCW, characteris- Korea, 11–13; as CMC society, 276;
tics of, 217; difficulties of for Internet hosts in, 265; included in
voice-recognition software, 274f.; Nomura Survey, 268–76
as increasingly popular language Korean journalism, 11; language,
on the Internet, 99; as third most 12f., 274; as fifteenth most com-
common language on the Web, mon language on the Web, 263;—
263;—cultural factors and group- media, as representing the
ware, 222;—cultural values, 230f. economic, democratizing benefits
Jefferson, Thomas, 1; “academical of the Internet, 270. See also jour-
village” and electronic global vil- nalism; Kidnet; IIE; IYC; news-
lage, 30n. 2; and military origins papers
of highway building, 53 Kulturwissenschaften, defined, 31n.
Jihad, 2, 4, 15, 23, 30n. 3, 35n. 18, 5
296. See also cultural diversity Kumar, Harsh (Indian computer
Jihad vs. McWorld (Barber), 14, 16, scientist, localizer), 293, 298
29. See also McWorld Kurdish (language), 151
Jinnah (Muhammed Ali), 290 Kuwait, 10, 19f.; as democracy with
Jones, Steve, 5f., 17, 22 free press, 201f.; Internet hosts
Joong-Ang Daily (Korean newspa- in, 190; newspapers encourage
per), 246ff. technology acquisition, 189;
journalism, as selective, 77; as mo- women more likely to use the In-
bilizing Internet use (Korea) 11, ternet, 190
244–52; as part of habitus (Bour-
dieu), 252; as sensationalizing in- Landow, George, 8, 140
decency, 248. See also language, as cultural capital, 12;
commercialism; newspapers ideographic (Chinese, Japanese),
justice, “thick” and “thin” concepts 286; and power, as fused (South
of (Walzer), 318 Asia) 290, 294, (Thailand) 315;
role of as missing in CMC discus-
Kafka, Franz, stories of as part of sion, 283; standardization of in
Western culture, 320 localization, 301; as symbolic/
keyboard, (Roman), 11; difficulty of institutional power, 11; as ; sym-
use with Hindi, 292; difficulty of bolic violence, 257. See also
use with kanji (Japan), 232, English
273f.; literacy (Japan), 274. See Latin-American (included in list-
also pen-computing serv study), 168