ABSTRACT
Map 38 should be consulted in tandem with Map 37. Both offer a glance at how cultural difference—be it ethno-linguistic, ethnoreligious, or historic—is employed in today’s Central Europe to legitimize and maintain national statehood, and to separate the region’s nation-states. Map 37 traces the technologies of translating cultural difference into national boundaries of language, religion, political frontiers, and border barriers. In turn, Map 38 probes into how these processes are replicated in cyberspace. The Google search engine and Wikipedia, founded in 1997 and 2001, respectively, afford a useful lens through which the employment of cultural difference and its management in Central Europe may be observed.
