Tim Berners-Lee... -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Sue Thomas Sent: 06 March 2011 18:04 To: Michael Gurstein; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not*fromNorth America Michael, no need to jump on me, I was only giving a few quick examples! But also in my mind were William Gibson, Barry Wellman, the people behind RIM, Douglas Coupland and others. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: 05 March 2011 14:05 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* fromNorth America Emily Dickinson: Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/emilydicki154094.html#ixzz1Fj YGBc GL And Sue, why do you deliberately say "North America" when all of your "net famous people" are from the USA... M
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Sue Thomas <Sue.Thomas@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear all
Can anyone help me with this please?
I'm looking for stories about people who have become well-known due to their involvement with the internet and who are NOT NORTH AMERICAN! I'm finding it incredibly difficult, and I don't know whether it's because I'm looking in the wrong places or whether the US and Canada really do dominate big name cyberculture.
I'm looking for people outside North America who have become famous or successful in net-related R&D or business or government or law, or
be influential thought-leaders, authors and critics, or are notorious
for net exploitation or crime, or are fictional or gaming cyberspace characters, or online religious leaders etc etc. I have a few in mind already, of course, but my list is very short.
So, who is your country's Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Tim O'Reilly? Your Howard Rheingold or Stewart Brand or Kevin Kelly? Your Steven Johnson or Henry Jenkins? (You will have noticed btw that these are also all white men, with the possible exception of Jobs, who is half-Syrian).
Who are your internet criminals and what did they do? Do you know of any well-known stories or urban legends about the net which may or may not be true? Does your country use the internet in a very culturally-specific way?
Apart from individuals themselves, I'm also interested in culture-specific stories such as haunted mobile phones in Malaysia or
Chinese RPGs based on the Monkey tales.
I'm sorry this is vague but hope you get the drift. Please send thoughts, links and ideas for reading matter to sue.thomas@dmu.ac.uk
Don't worry if the sources are not in English. I have access to some
translation resources. NB You might be quoted in a book or paper but
full attribution will be given.
Many thanks
Sue _________________
Professor Sue Thomas
Faculty of Humanities/Institute of Creative Technologies Clephan 1.01d De Montfort University
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