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power (cont.) English as language of public events, require bodily pres-
(South Asia), 289f., 299f., (Thai- ence, 135. See also embodiment
land), 315; ignored in metaphor of public opinion, as created by mass
highway, 54; social practices (in- media, 77; three forms of, 70; po-
cluding technology design) as ex- litical, as communication system,
tending asymmetrical power 70
relationships, 181; technology as public sphere (Habermas), conse-
extending power of the already- quences of the Internet for, 67f.;
powerful (historical rule), 294; news of Chernobyl, Gulf War, Yu-
using Thai as language of, 315. goslavia as examples of, 81; as re-
See also cultural capital; positive quirement for democracy, 11, 241;
power; symbolic power; symbolic suppression of by Information Su-
violence perhighway, 241
power distance (Hofstede), 91, 162,
236n. 5; Japan as high power dis- quantitative research, and culture,
tance, North America as less 7, 89–92
high power distance, Scandinavia quantitative study, global, 87–115;
as low power distance, 219; cf. of Korean journalism, 11f.,
role of technological gatekeeper, 246–52
214
praxis, Aristotle on, 19; Thai, 17 radio, 61; role of in modern society,
printing press, 1, 63 70
privacy, McGovern on, 174; and on- Rawls, John, 35n. 17
line communities, 5, 57ff. real (German-language philosophy
private vs. public channels on the list), 132, 137–42
Internet, 68 reality, as part of philosophical
privilege, English as language of worldview, 3
(South Asia), 289; and on-line Reason, Eurocentric, as universal,
communities, 5, 62f.; and post- 133; “computer-mediated space of
modernism, 21. See also English; R.,” 140
power Regulatory Authority of India, 292
property, and on-line communities, Reeves, Caroline, 33n. 13
5, 59f. register (German language mailing
protection, and on-line communi- list), 142
ties, 5, 60ff. relative advantage, as predictor in
Protestant, participation in on-line technology diffusion, 96
dialogue on abortion, 35n. 17 religion, 20; Brahmanic, as obstacle
programming, Lady Lovelace and, to localization, 15, 300; as ele-
xi–xii ment of local, but not cosmopoli-
progress, as myth, 55 tan cultures, 317
prosperity, as furthered by CMC, 10 religious agnosticism, viii; stories
Punjabi, 288 (and growing up), 25
public, as always particular on the Renaissance, 26
Internet, 75 Rhaeto-Romansch (Switzerland),
public discourse, constraints of vs. 8f., 151f.; attitudes towards
speech in IRC (Kuwait), 202 media use, 152–59