Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Susan Herring -- 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 / Charles Ess -- Understanding Micropolis and Compunity / Steve Jones -- Electronic Networks and Civil Society: Reflections on Structural Changes in the Public Sphere / Barbara Becker and Josef Wehner -- National Level Culture and Global Diffusion: The Case of the Internet / Carleen F. Maitland and Johannes M. Bauer -- New Kids on the Net: Deutschsprachige Philosophie elektronisch / Herbert Hrachovec -- Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication: A Study in the "Multi-cultural" Environment of Switzerland / Lucienne Rey -- Diversity in On-Line Discussions: A Study of Cultural and Gender Differences in Listservs / Concetta M. Stewart, Stella F. Shields and Nandini Sen -- New Technologies, Old Culture: A Look at Women, Gender, and the Internet in Kuwait / Deborah Wheeler -- Preserving Communication Context: Virtual Workspace and Interpersonal Space in Japanese CSCW / Lorna Heaton -- Internet Discourse and the Habitus of Korea's New Generation / Sunny Yoon -- "Culture," Computer Literacy, and the Media in Creating Public Attitudes toward CMC in Japan and Korea / Robert J. Fouser -- Language, Power, and Software / Kenneth Keniston -- Global Culture, Local Cultures, and the Internet: The Thai Example / Soraj Hongladarom.