Re mediation of National identity on the Net, this is in someways trans-national, but Ananda Mitra has done good work on the e-disapora and has a forthcoming summary article in the Encyclopedia of Community, and Don Slater's book on Trinidadians overseas links is expressly on this issue. There are huge opportunities to look at how websites, discussion lists, etc help organize both diasporic and within-country identity and information. I think that these sources mean that more is known informally in Toronto (the most multiethnic city in the world) about the rest of the world than the formal media knows. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman@chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________