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Index 459Britain 278Catalonia 278, 394Operation Blue Star 413Opium War 100Oracle Corporation survey 226organizational theory 150Orlikowski, W. J. 156outsourcing 181, 190ownership, concentrated 35, 375Oyston, J. 309Packard, David 54Paterniti, D. A. 303patients 304–6, 307–10patriarchy 19, 27peace movement 18, 19Pearl River Delta 107, 108People’s Bank of China 106People’s Global Action (PGA) 343, 346,348, 350–52, 358n6People’s Liberation Army 110Per Scholas 326perestroika 17Perez, Carlota 8performance-related pay 180personal computers 14, 55Peters, O. 272, 283Pew Internet and American Life Project223, 229Phoenix Online University 277, 279physiciansInternet 306–11patients 304–6, 307–10websites 310–11PISA 70Playing2Win organization 324Pointcastnetwork.com 296PolicyLink 333–4political campaigns, online 367–8, 371–5politicsdecision-making 31–2hypertext 30ICT 363Internet 93–4, 95, 239, 241, 363–6,368–70media 30, 31–2, 33–4networked 375–6, 378of protest 366–7Runet 92–6of survival 106Poole, G. 274–5, 280–81, 282Powell, Michael 325Powell, W. W. 165powercapitalism 32network society 34–5networks 31–4switchers 33presentism 435–6, 437–8privacy/health information 299productivity growth 145–6, 148–50consumers 149information 153–7innovation 29, 422–3IT 145, 146–7, 166–7living standards 145modular designs 160–61Silicon Valley 60–61simulation modeling 161–2Solow 41USA 51–2professional employer organizations185–6profitability 180, 210programmers 32, 34Project Compute 329–30Project Internet Catalonia 394, 398Protestant ethic 420–21, 428public space 30, 334, 403PubMed 296Punjab 407, 409–10, 411–13, 414Punjab Kesari 413Punjabi film industry 411–12, 413Punjabi television 413–14Putin, V. 25Putnam, Robert 219, 229al-Qaeda 35Qian Tianbai 99Qianguo Luntan 116raceDetroit 250–51digital divide 249health information 295, 311–12ICT 264Internet 253, 258, 259, 260, 261, 265,330sociability 261, 262–3USA 252Rama Rao, N. T. 408