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universals, 4; cultural, 88; ethical, Virtual Reality, interface for IRC
Rorty’s views on, 321; philosophy (Japan), 234
and the quest for, 145; TCP/IP as virtual space (Japanese CSCW),
universal, particular, 133 230
universality, of Eurocentric Reason, virtuality, as discussion topic on
133; principle of, and mailing real (German language list), 138
lists, 140 virtual universities (Korea), 276
Urdu, 280, 288, 299, 303n. 3 voice-recognition software, limita-
Usenet, 131; newsgroups and the tions of in Japanese, 275
struggle for political freedom in
Indonesia, Thailand, 309; news- Walzer, Michael, 14, 16, 318
groups, Thai, 15f.; and “ritual wake, as alternative metaphor, 54
communication,” 312. See also Washington Post, 262f.
soc.culture.thai, 308, 309–15 wasta (Arabic, “connections”), 200f.
utopian futures, 21; vs. dystopian, Web advertising, Korea, 263
21, 28 Web-based e-mail, Korea, 263
utopianism, electronic, 1; vs. Web homepages, built by Korean
dystopias, 3 youth, 255; as measure of Inter-
net diffusion in Switzerland,
Vajpajee, Prime Minister, 303n. 3 157f.; national differences in in-
values, American, 3; Anglo-Saxon, terest in (Nomura Survey), 270;
290; democratic, 16; as non-mate- in Yamada village (Japan), 277.
rial, 37n. 22; non-Western and See also HTML
CMC technologies, viii; Western wealth, as characteristic of early
cultural, viii, 16, 316. See also adopters (innovation diffusion),
North American society, 219; 93
human rights; Western values Western culture, as distinct from
Vaud (Swiss canton), 157 cosmopolitan culture, 317f. See
veil, women’s wearing of (Kuwait), also Western values
197, 199 Western, ideals, 308, 317 (see also
videoconferencing, 229 Western values); the Internet as
video-mediated communication, as harbinger of—ideals, values,
absent in Scandanavian CSCW, 315–18; the Internet as most con-
217f.; as dominant in Japanese ducive to the low-context culture
CSCW, 217 of—male society, 181;—prefer-
Vienna, City of, 134 ence for direct eye-contact, 11;—
Vienna University, 137, 143 societies, as marked by
violence. See symbolic violence; transportation as ritual activity,
symbolic power; positive power 64;—vision of electronic global
virtual communities, 74. See also village, 27f.
on-line communities Western values, and Buddhism,
virtual galleries (Japan, Korea), 276 35n. 19; —, male, as embedded in
virtual distance (CSCW design), 228 networked communication sys-
virtue ethics, Aristotle 26; femi- tems, 181; and philosophy (as
nist/multicultural, 39n. 30 ethics and politics), 3; and the