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Das im Herbst 1998 abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekt Interaktionsraum Internet hat sich mit den konstitutiven Merkmalen der Netzkultur und Netzwerkorganisation beschäftigt. Im Vordergrund des Interesses stand das dynamische Zusammenspiel technischer und gesellschaftlicher Konventionen in der...
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The research project The Internet as a space for interaction, which completed its mission in Autumn 1998, studied the constitutive features of network culture and network organisation. Special emphasis was given to the dynamic interplay of technical and social conventions regarding both the...
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Viewed in the light of the theory of accidental excellence, there is much to suggest that the success of the Internet and its various protocols derives from a communications technology accident, or better, a series of accidents. In the early 1990s, many experts still saw the Internet as an...
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A story about a secretary, a mechanic, and a typewriter as told in a company provides the starting-point for this paper. With the story in mind we then discuss two lines of thought which arise from it: (1) Gender, stereotypes and unity, (2) Gender, stereotypes, and technology. Gender is an...
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Very few studies have examined reflection of scientific collaboration networks through coauthorship on the Web. In this paper the collaboration between 80 German institutions of immunology is analyzed, including gender collaboration. Multi-authored papers from 1997 are less visible on the Web in...
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Die vorliegende Veröffentlichung dokumentiert die Beiträge des Kolloquiums Identität - Alterität - Interkulturalität. Kultur und Globalisierung vom 26./27. Mai in Darmstadt. Es geht darin um Fragen von subjektiver und kollektiver Identität im weiteren Sinne, um unterschiedliche Orte,...
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Thematisierung zählt zu den generativen Formschemata der Erlebnisgesellschaft und liegt weltweit im Trend. Trotz der zu beobachtenden globalen Homogenisierung bei Erlebnis- und Konsumwelten spielen lokale Freizeitkulturen weiterhin eine wichtige Rolle. Das Beispiel Japans zeigt anschaulich, wie...
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Cybercrime and its potential ramifications exemplify 'one of those things that nobody wants' (Popper 1963). From today's perspective it would have been easy to foresee and at least partly prevent the mischief of cybercrime. One therefore wonders what early developers and users of the Internet...
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This article sets out to compare processes of formal institution building in two transnational policy areas, the regulation of the Internet infrastructure and the regulation of corporate financial reporting. Both cases are concerned with regulatory arrangements beyond the nation state, in which...
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Dieser Beitrag beruht auf einer Fallstudie über die Einrichtung neuer Top Level Domains. Den Hintergrund der Untersuchung bildet eine Mitte der 90er Jahre einsetzende Auseinandersetzung über die Funktion und die künftige Entwicklung des interneteigenen Namensraums. 1998 leitete die US...
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