Jeremy You asked “can you perhaps tell us how you intend to tie the internet into your research?” I suppose the internet is the largest way in which increased connexity has taken the world by storm, now rapidly followed by mobile technological development WAPs laptops hand helds etc. I use the Internet as my primary tool in researching anything; the ability to search a document on the PC is so much easier than trawling through books and newspapers in hardcopy. Though it does not exclude these. Just by contributing to the list we indicate the importance of the Internet in our academic lives! At this point of my quest to understand Globalization I would have to say the Internet is my main mental picture. I know it is broader than this. A number of you have responded to my post on and off list thank you very much. Daphne