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Rheingold, Harold, 261 198; British colonialism and, 289;
rhizome-like structure of the Inter- Internet hosts per GNP, 265; and
net, Web, 78 McWorld, 295; included in No-
Richards, Cameron, 21f. mura Survey, 268–76; as example
rights, human. See human rights of resistance to American/West-
Roman keyboard. See keyboard ern values embedded in CMC,
(Roman) 32n. 11
Romanticism, German, 9, 159 Sinhala (language), 289
Rorty, Richard, 321 SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Proto-
Russian, requiring non-Roman col), 131, 135
character sets, 284 soc.culture.burma (Usenet group),
317
Sandbothe, Mike, 26 soc.culture.thai (Usenet group),
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, 268, 305n. 308, 309–15; English as only
6 medium of, 319; as involving both
Saudi Arabia (control of CMC), 34n. middle-class urbanites and rural
15 farmers, 313; as reinforcing local
Saussure, Ferdinand, as criticized culture, community, 312; and “rit-
by Bourdieu, 243 ual communication,” 312, 321;
Scandinavia, characteristics of use of Thai language on as lan-
CSCW in, 217f.; as low power dis- guage of power, 315
tance, more “feminine,” between social anthropology, and definitions
Japan and North America re. in- of national cultures, 218
dividualism/collectivism (Hofst- social constructivism, 10, 221; of
ede), 219 technology (SCOT), 235n. 1
scarcity value, lack of in PC com- social context of use, 25
munication (Korea), 254 social hierarchy, emerging on mail-
school enrollment, as factor in tech- ing list, 136
nology diffusion, 7, 106–8, 113 social status, and appropriation of
science, as culturally neutral, 222 new technologies (Korea) 12, 254,
Science Museum (London), xi (Kuwait) 189. See also power dis-
scientism, and habitus (Bourdieu), tance
252 sociology, as source of adoption
seamlessness, in CSCW 223, 228f. variables in innovation diffusion,
search engines, Korea and Japan, 94
263 soft determinism, 27, 32n. 10, 33n.
sexuality, open (as Western value), 14. See also technological deter-
viii minism
Sharia (tradition of Muslim law), solidarity (Rorty), 321
210n. 21 Somalia, viii
“signal function” of communication Sommer, Georg, 144
(Habermas), 81 Songkhla, Prince of, University
Sindhi (language), 288 (Thailand), 308
Singapore, balance in Internet use South Africa, indigenous peoples of
between society’s moral stan- and CMC, 36n. 20; and McWorld,
dards and creative expression, 295