Technology and culture are inextricably connected (Carey, 1988). Technology is a part and not a part from culture; new technology reshapes the culture by creating new contexts and environments; andlanguage evolves from this interaction of culture and technology (personal communication, Roger Wyatt, September 8, 1996).
Communication technologies and their relationship to culture is the study of change (Hall, 1990). This change, Negroponte (1995) and Weston (1994) claim that is less about information and content and more about community and relations. The investigation of communication technologies involves the interactions within social contexts, the technologies themselves, and the resulting relationships as socially created products and processes (Carey, 1988; Couch, 1996; Finnegan, 1988; Johnson, 1966). "The Internet is mostly about people finding their voice, speaking for themselves in a public way, and the content that carries this new relationship is of separate, even secondary, importance" (Weston, 1994, p. 3). Wiegand (1989) describes the relationship between communication technologies and people as "a delicate balance" (p. 107).