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Web, viii, 315–20. See also agnos- roles and advantages of
ticism, viii; capitalism; CMC; de- (Kuwait), 192ff.; shorter message
mocracy; equality; free speech; length of, 170; technology as lib-
freedom of expression; freedom of erating for, 187 (see also Har-
the individual; human rights; in- away, Donna); veiling and
dividualism; liberalism; sexuality, (Kuwait), 197; Western—as op-
viii pressed, 202f.; who most need
Western women, oppression of help least accessible via the In-
(from Islamic perspective), 202f. ternet (Kuwait), 210n. 21. See
“whisper-chair” (Japanese CSCW), also gender; male communication
230 styles, 164–66; men; patriarchy
white Americans (included in list- women’s freedom (Kuwait), 203. See
serv study), 168; as sending more also gender
messages in listserv study, 169 women’s power (Kuwait), 203
will-power, individual (in habitus), women’s testimony, worth one-half
11, 243 of a man’s (Kuwait), 199
Windows 95 (operating system), women’s voices, as shameful to be
and privacy, 57 heard (Kuwait), 199f.
Windows 98 (operating system), “women’s work,” changing attitudes
and non-English languages, 286 towards (Kuwait) 193f.
Windows NT (operating system), World Bank, 30n. 1, 114, 187, 297
and Indian languages, 292 World Wildlife Fund, as partial
Winner, Langdon, 33n. 14, 36n. 19 public, 81
wireless telephony, as interactive worldview, culture and, 21, 23f.;
network, 87. See also mobile mechanistic/rational w. in com-
phones puter science, systems develop-
women, African-American, as par- ment, 236n. 6; philosophy and, 3
ticipating more in class than on-
line, 181; disenfranchised Xerox PARC (CSCW design), 223
(Kuwait), 192; fewer messages
from, 168; Internet demographics Yahoo (search engine), in Japan and
of (global), 187, (Kuwait), 190, Korea, 263
(Middle East) 190; as late Yomiuri Shimbun (Korean newspa-
adopters of listserv technology, per), 262, 264f.
170f.; more likely to use the In- Yugoslavia, linguistic diversity of,
ternet than men (Kuwait), 190; 304n. 3; news of as example of al-
participation of in networks, 161; ternative public sphere, 81