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Contents

Preface
‘Until Something Else’ – A Theoretical Introduction 1

PART 1 The Empirical

Formalisms of Digital Text 23
Francisco J. Ricardo

Knowledge Building and Motivations 51
in Wikipedia: Participation as “Ba”
Sheizaf Rafaeli, Tsahi Hayat, Yaron Ariel

On the Way to the Cyber-Arab-Culture: 69
International Communication, Telecommunications Policies,
and Democracy
Mahmoud Eid

The Challenge of Intercultural Electronic 99
Learning: English as Lingua Franca
Rita Zaltsman

PART 2 The Aesthetic

The Implicit Body 117
Nicole Ridgway and Nathaniel Stern

Cyborg Goddesses: the Mainframe Revisited 157
Leman Giresunlu

De-Colonizing Cyberspace: 189
Post-Colonial Strategies in Cyberfiction
Maria Bäcke

The Différance Engine: 197
Videogames as Deconstructive Spacetime
Tony Richards

Technology on Screen: 219
Projections, Paranoia and Discursive practice
Alev Adil and Steve Kennedy