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host counts in—countries, 100; personal distance (Hall), 226. See
measure of Internet diffusion, also distance; non-verbal commu-
116n. 10; role of competition in nication
Internet penetration, 98 personality, democratic and author-
organizational communication, itarian (Adorno), 35n. 18
214f. Philippines, 35n. 19; Internet diffu-
organizational culture, 220. See sion in, 110
also culture PhilNet (Hamburg University stu-
“orchestra effect” (habitus), 11, 243, dent group), 143
259n. 1 Philos-L (philosophy mailing list),
142
Pakistan, 287, 288; linguistic diver- philosophy, 3; as changed by mail-
sity of, 304n. 3 ing lists, 145; computer-medi-
panopticon (Foucault), 244 ated, 143; and constructing
patriarchy, 10, 189, 192; as rhetoric intercultural worldviews, 24, 27f.;
covering women’s power electronic, 8; as explaining cul-
(Kuwait), 203. See also gender; tural differences (Switzerland),
gender equality; men; women 158f.; as integrated into CSCW,
“partial publics” (Teilöf- 213; mailing lists as contra seri-
fentlichkeiten, Habermas), 7, 21; ous p., 138; “media philosophy” as
defined, 75; distinguished from rejecting traditional professional
general public opinion, 79; lim- standards, 138
ited by commercialization, 76; philweb (German-language philoso-
limited to very small part of phy list), 132, 142–46
world population, 76; as middles pidgens, 28
between libertarian / centralized Plato, allegory of the cave, 24, 39n.
versions of the Internet, 68f., 75; 29
necessary intermediary between pluralism, theoretical, 22, 40n. 32
general systems and particular Poster, Mark, 323n. 8
lifeworld, 80 PostPet (art e-mail program), 266
PCs, number of, as factor in tech- postmodern, concept of flow, 54;
nology diffusion, 7, 97, 114; as conception of democracy (Poster),
correlated with gender empower- 323n. 8; fragmentation, 4, 21; cul-
ment and teledensity, 103; as cor- ture of communication (as seg-
related with Internet diffusion, mented), 74
106, 111f., 114; sales of to indi- postmodernism, 1, 4, 5, 6, 11, 20;
viduals, institutions (US), 301 assumptions about power, 242;
pen-based computing (Japanese), critiques of, 21f.; distinction be-
11, 232, 234 tween real and virtual identity,
People’s Republic of China, localiz- 22
ing for, 299 positive power (Foucault), 12,
peripheral awareness (in CSCW de- 242–44
sign), 223, 228; as uncapturable, power, 11, 242; caste interest
231 (India), —, and computer access,
Persian, requiring non-Roman 299f.; electronic technologies as
character sets, 284 amplifying extant—elites, 294;