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CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION Special Issue: Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication (CIOS/Comserve) International Conference: CATAC'98, 13 August 1998, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London Mirror Site: http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/index.html |
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Proceedings Cultural Attitudes Towards
Table of Contents Preface Introduction First Looks:
CATaC98 / 1 Part 1: The Politics of the Electronic Global Village Understanding
micropolis and compunity / 21 New kids on the
net / 34 Electronic
media and civil society / 50 Global
diffusion of interactive networks: The impact of culture / 51
Part 2: Homogeneity, Marginalization, and the Preservation of Local Cultures Reflections
on cultural bias and adaptation / 71 Aspects
of diversity, access and community networks / 92 NGOs
and Internet use in Uganda: Who benefits? / 104 Part 3: Communication in Virtual Communities Cybersocialism:
Group consciousness and transnational communities / 127 CMCs
and the problem of "grounding" virtual utopias /
129
Striving for closure: Interactive ASCII art on Internet Relay Chat / 141 Attitudes
towards technology and communication across the multiple cultures of Switzerland
/ 142 Part 4: Sociocultural Convergence National
security and democracy on the Internet in Israel / 145 Virtual
environments as spaces of symbolic construction and cultural identity:
Latin American Virtual Communities / 140 Addressivity
and sociability in "Celtic men" / 152 Cultural
attitudes and technology / 158 Part 5: East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices Preserving
communication context: Virtual workspace and interpersonal space in Japanese
CSCW / 163 Global
culture, local cultures, and the Internet: The Thai example / 187 The cultural
Interface: The role of self / 202 Part 6: Culture and the Design of Technology Bridging
the gap: Issues in the design of computer user interfaces for multicultural
communities / 211 Cross-cultural
understanding of metaphors in interface design / 217 Culture
and participation in development of CMC: Indigenous cultural information
system case study / 219 Building
cyberspace: Information, place and policy / 224 Part 7: Culture and communication in organizations Why
people use the world wide web: An application of uses and gratifications
theory / 227 Cross-cultural
issues affecting information technology use in logistics / 255 Analysing
cultural impacts of computer-mediated communication in organisations
/ 259 Panel Discussion Global
Culture, Local Culture, and Vernacular Computing: The excluded 95% in
South Asia / 267 Author Index / 271 |