From the editor

Ilpo Koskinen

87-87

Cultural politics and political culture of web 2.0 in Asia

89-94

News blogging in cross-cultural contexts

a report on the struggle for voice

James E. Katz, Chih-Hui Lai

95-107

The internet as cultural form

technology and the human condition in China

Guobin Yang

109-115

Web U2

emerging online communities and gendered intimacy in the Asia-pacific region

Larissa Hjorth

The internet in Thailand

an alternative means of communication

Thammakit Thammo

125-131

Icts for achieving millennium development goals

experiences of connecting rural China to the internet

Jinqiu Zhao

133-143

New media and event

a case study on the power of the internet

Chung Y. Cheng

145-153