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South Asia, absence of localized potentially democratic uses of the
software in, 290f.; as containing Internet, 258; language as, 256f.
2nd largest English-speaking See also habitus; positive power;
population in the world, 287f.; symbolic violence
cultural diversity of, 296; growth symbolic violence (Bourdieu), 12,
of middle class in, 301; IT in, 213, 243f.; language as, 257
287–91; linguistic diversity of,
303n. 3; low telephone, Internet Talero, Eduardo (World Bank), 187
penetration, 301; projected Taiwan, Internet hosts per GNP,
growth of middle classes, 301; 265
rates of Internet growth in, 295 Tamil, 289, 299, 300, 304nn. 4, 5;
Southeast Asia, language-power fu- included in Windows NT, 292; -
sion in, 290 speakers (India), rejection of
Soviet Union (former), linguistic di- ISCII, 292
versity of, 304n. 3 Tamil Nadu (Indian state), 302
space, framework of—and time al- Tannen, Deborah, 9, 164f.
tered in mailing lists, 139; sense Taoism, 39n. 28
of shared—in Japanese CSCW, TCP/IP, as both particular and uni-
224, 231 versal, 133
Spain, linguistic diversity of, 304n. 3 TeamWorkStation (Japanese CSCW
Spanish, among fastest growing project), 223, 227, 232
languages on-line, viii, 99; local- technocratism, and habitus (Bour-
ized software available for, 288 dieu), 252
standardization, code, 285f.; of lan- technological determinism, 16f., 25,
guage and code in localization, 33n. 14, 27; backlash against,
301 215. See also soft determinism
Stoic, vision of cosmopolitan, 27 technological frame (Law and
Stoll, Clifford, 261 Bijker), 11, 213, 221. See also
study, as Korean cultural value, 255 frame of meaning
Sri Lanka, 287, 289; linguistic di- technological instrumentalism, 18,
versity of, 304n. 3 25, 27; McLuhan and, 35n. 19
suburbanization (Fordism), 58 technology diffusion—see diffusion
supply and demand (localization), of technology
298 technology, acquisition of as sign of
“surfing,” and power, 54 social status (Korea), 12, 254,
swear rooms (Korea), 272f. (Kuwait), 189 (see also power dis-
Swihala, 289 tance); appropriate, 214; as cul-
Switzerland, 8f., 19; as countering turally neutral, 222 (see also
correlation between PCs and In- technological instrumentalism);
ternet penetration, 97; as “lan- embedding cultural bias, viii, 316
guage laboratory,” 151; (see also technological instrumen-
philosophical uses of the Internet talism); extending power of the
in, 142–44; vote on European already-powerful (historical rule),
Economic Area, 152 294; mythic nature of, 57; as so-
symbolic power (Bourdieu), (Korea), cially constructed, 215
12, 245, 255; as interfering with technophilia, vs. humanism, 141