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3rd Quarter 1998
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Proceedings Cultural Attitudes Towards
Technology and Communication '98

Table of Contents

First Looks: CATaC’98 / 1
    Charles Ess, Drury College, USA

Understanding micropolis and compunity / 21
   Steve Jones, University of Illinois - Chicago, USA

New kids on the net / 34
   Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria

Electronic media and civil society / 50
   Barbara Becker, Josef Wehner, GMD, Germany

Global diffusion of interactive networks: The impact of culture / 51
   Carleen Maitland, Michigan State University, USA

Reflections on cultural bias and adaptation / 71
   Daniel Pargman, Linkoping University, Sweden

Aspects of diversity, access and community networks / 92
   Cyd Strickland, The Fielding Institute, USA

NGOs and Internet use in Uganda: Who benefits?   / 104
   Scott McConnell, University of Guelph, Canada

Cybersocialism: Group consciousness and transnational communities   / 127
   Fay Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia

CMCs and the problem of "grounding" virtual utopias   / 129
   Cameron Richards, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Striving for closure: Interactive ASCII art on Internet Relay Chat   / 141
   Brenda Danet, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Attitudes towards technology and communication across the multiple cultures of Switzerland  / 142
   Lucienne Rey, TA Program, Switzerland

National security and democracy on the Internet in Israel / 145
   Michael Dahan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel  

Virtual environments as spaces of symbolic construction and cultural identity: Latin American Virtual Communities / 140
   Jose Nocera, Simon Bolivar University, Venuezuela

Addressivity and sociability in "Celtic men" / 152
   Jason Rutter and Greg Smith, University of Salford, UK

Cultural attitudes and technology / 158
   Jerome Heath, North Seattle Community College, USA

Preserving communication context: Virtual workspace and interpersonal space in Japanese CSCW / 163
   Lorna Heaton, University of New Mexico, USA

Global culture, local cultures, and the Internet: The Thai example / 187
   Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

The cultural Interface: The role of self / 202
   Satinder Gill, NTT Basic Research Labs, Japan

Bridging the gap: Issues in the design of computer user interfaces for multicultural communities / 211
   Adrie Stander, Cape Technikon, South Africa

Cross-cultural understanding of metaphors in interface design / 217
   Vanessa Evers, Open University, UK

Culture and participation in development of CMC: Indigenous cultural information system case study / 219
   Andrew Turk, Kathryn Trees, Murdock University, Australia (20m)

Building cyberspace: Information, place and policy / 224
   Ken Friedman, Norwegian School of Management, Norway

Part 7: Culture and communication in organizations

Why people use the world wide web: An application of uses and gratifications theory / 227
   Diane Witmer, Chutatip Taweesuk, California State University, Fullerton, USA

Cross-cultural issues affecting information technology use in logistics / 255
   Paul Tully, California State University - Sacramento, USA

Analysing cultural impacts of computer-mediated communication in organisations / 259
   Heejin Lee and Richard Varey, University of Salford, UK

Global Culture, Local Culture, and Vernacular Computing: The excluded 95% in South Asia / 267
   Kenneth Keniston, MIT, USA and Pat Hall, The Open University, UK

Author Index / 271