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Latin-speaking Swiss, 20. See also Macauley, Lord, and British colo-
French-speaking Swiss, Italian- nialism, 289f.
speaking Swiss, Rhaeto-Romansch Macintosh interface, ease of localiz-
Latvia, locale coding and localiza- ing, 292
tion software for, 299 Madison, James, 1
legislation, as unable to control in- Marathi (Indian language), 298,
formation flow, 60 299, 300
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, as criticized Marcuse, Herbert, 33n. 14
by Bourdieu, 243 mailing lists, contra serious philos-
liberalism, as resisted in Burma, ophy, 138; discourse in vis-à-vis
316; as Western ideal, 308, 316 Usenet, 131; egalitarianism of in
Liberation Theology, 36n. 19 conflict with hierarchical struc-
listserv, in-class, 9, 167–80. See also tures of ordinary teaching, 139;
mailing lists failures of, 136ff.; framework of
literacy, as factor in Web access time and space altered in, 139;
(Kuwait), 190. See also education; Hegelian mediation of, 140; and
English principle of universality, 140; re-
local culture, 5, 315f.; as mutually quire highly focused academic co-
determining Internet culture, operation, 138; “review”
321; as preserved, propagated by command and audience, 135; as
the Internet, 318. See also global segmenting communication flow,
culture; Jihad 74; emergence of social hierarchy
“locale coding,” 292 in, 136; use in academe (German-
localization, 13f., 36n. 19, 284–87; speaking), 138. See also listserv,
BharatBhasha (localization soft- 9, 167–80
ware, India), 292f., 298; cultural Malaysia, and British colonialism,
factors against (India), 300; gov- 289; and Islam, 32n. 9
ernment role in, 293, 301; lan- MAJIC (Japanese CSCW), 227f.,
guage and, 283f.; vs. “locale 231f.
coding,” 292; MacIntosh interface Majima (Japanese pop artist), 266
and, 292; MS-DOS and, 292; ob- Maldives (South Asia), 287
stacles to, 15; standardization of male communication styles,
language codes and, 285f., 301; 164–66; Internet as most con-
supply and demand affecting, 298 ducive to low-context culture of
Localization Industry Standards Western—society, 181. See also
Association (LISA), 284 gender; men; women
long-term vs. short-term orienta- Mandarin, 303n. 3
tion (Hofstede), 91, 116n. 5; Manichean, dilemma, 1; dualism
Japan as long-term society, North (mind-body), 23
America as short-term, 219 market size, and information on the
Los Angeles Times, 262f. Web (Japan, Korea), 263
Lovelace, Lady Ada, xi–xii mass communication, as imper-
Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft sonal, 73
(philosophical association), 143 mass media, as constituting a world
Luhmann, Nicklas, 3, 5, 6, 69–72, public arena contra fragmenta-
77 tion, 72; as creating a “meta-cul-