[Air-l] Research on Internet Use in Finland?

Jay Hauben hauben at columbia.edu
Sun May 14 19:35:21 PDT 2006


Hi,

Ronda Hauben and I will be in Finland at the end of May attending a 
history of technology conference.

Finland has played an important role providing innovative uses for the 
Internet such as IRC and intellectual frames to look at the Internet 
such as the Information Society. Also, Finland is the birthplace of 
Linux. In recent literature Finland is often mentioned as sharing with 
South Korea the distinction of the largest percent of the population 
connected to the Internet via broadband.

Can anyone point me to any research on the impact of Internet use on 
Finnish society or politics or other aspects particular to Finland? I 
am especially interested in connections between Internet usage and 
further democratization of societies.

Also, Ronda and I would very much like to meet or correspond with 
people on the AIR-L list in Finland who share our interests in the 
Internet, in the democratization process and netizens or in the 
history of science and technology, so we can learn more about the 
Finnish contribution to the Internet and to democratic practice.

Kiitos

Thanks.

Best wishes.

Jay



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