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Contents

Foreword by Susan Herring vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: What’s Culture Got to Do with It?
Cultural Collisions in the Electronic Global
Village, Creative Interferences, and the Rise of
Culturally-Mediated Computing 1
Charles Ess

I. Theoretical Approaches:
Postmodernism, Habermas, Luhmann, Hofstede

Understanding Micropolis and Compunity 53
Steve Jones

Electronic Networks and Civil Society: Reflections on
Structural Changes in the Public Sphere 67
Barbara Becker and Josef Wehner

National Level Culture and Global Diffusion:
The Case of the Internet 87
Carleen F. Maitland and Johannes M. Bauer

II. Theory/Praxis
a. EUROPE
New Kids on the Net: Deutschsprachige
Philosophie elektronisch 131
Herbert Hrachovec

Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication:
A Study in the “Multi-cultural” Environment of Switzerland 151
Lucienne Rey

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