I already emailed you about the Finnish social media phenomena But in general level in Finland people related to Internet are: * Linus Torvalds - soft engineer, developper of Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds * Petteri Järvinen - a regular commentator in press of all Internet related issues, mostly safety issues http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petteri_J%C3%A4rvinen Anne Holappa, Finland

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

The Gateway

Leicester

LE1 9BH, UK

e: sue.thomas@dmu.ac.uk

t: @suethomas

w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>

_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

-- Radhika Gajjala Director, American Culture Studies Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies 101 East Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403

http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

-- Anne Holappa anne.holappa@welho.com

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

The Gateway

Leicester

LE1 9BH, UK

e: sue.thomas@dmu.ac.uk

t: @suethomas

w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>

_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change

...

options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

-- Radhika Gajjala Director, American Culture Studies Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies 101 East Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403

http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

Dear all, dear Sue, Interesting question, but when approaching the project from the perspective of people who are Non- North American hot shots, Americans implicitly remain the norm. And others remain outsiders. They remain 'space invaders', in terms of Nirwal Purwal. Anyway, in the context of the Netherlands and Europe, Neelie Kroes is interesting, making the Forbes top 100 of most influential women a couple of times. She was the former European Comissioner on Competition, dealing with operating system's interoperability, fining Microsoft for 500 million etc. In the area of critical studies of digital media in the Netherlands and Globally, Geert Lovink, of the Institute of Network Cultures, is of great interest too. Good luck with your project, Koen. Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student Gender Studies | Research Institute for History and Culture | | Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Muntstraat 2a | 3512 EV Utrecht | Room 1.12 | www.koenleurs.net | www.uu.nl/wiredup | -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org namens S.Livingstone@lse.ac.uk Verzonden: zo 6-3-2011 20:58 Aan: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Onderwerp: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people*not*fromNorth America 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

The Gateway

Leicester

LE1 9BH, UK

e: sue.thomas@dmu.ac.uk

t: @suethomas

w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>

_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change

...

options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

-- Radhika Gajjala Director, American Culture Studies Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies 101 East Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403

http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

Hello, I can't help adding this name to the Finnish list: Jarkko Oikarinen, creator of IRC (Internet Relay Chat), and recipient of a Dvorak award (1997) for this accomplishment. You can read more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarkko_Oikarinen Guillaume Latzko-Toth

I already emailed you about the Finnish social media phenomena

But in general level in Finland people related to Internet are:

* Linus Torvalds - soft engineer, developper of Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

* Petteri Järvinen - a regular commentator in press of all Internet related issues, mostly safety issues http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petteri_J%C3%A4rvinen

Anne Holappa, Finland

...

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

The Gateway

Leicester

LE1 9BH, UK

e: sue.thomas@dmu.ac.uk

t: @suethomas

w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>

_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

-- Radhika Gajjala Director, American Culture Studies Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies 101 East Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403

http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

-- Anne Holappa anne.holappa@welho.com

_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

Thanks Jeremy Very helpful, especially the Postel list, and the Wikipedia link - had no idea that was there! Much appreciated Sue -----Original Message----- From: jeremy hunsinger [mailto:jhuns@vt.edu] Sent: 05 March 2011 12:38 To: Sue Thomas Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America The list of Postel award winners: http://www.isoc.org/awards/postel/awards.shtml and of course: Dr. Jun-ichiro "Itojun" Hagino Linus Torvalds Julian Assange Tim Berners-Lee Robert Calliau (most people here: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/People.html) Faruouk Kamoun Alan Amtage i could probably go on with research. there is also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_personalities_by_country which is a different kind of internet fame

Leslie, many thanks for these links. I'm aware of the Itos but not the others. Must go back and re-read The Virtual Community. (By the way, everyone, I asked for backchannel emails but if your email to me included the list as well, I'm assuming you want the conversation to be public and am including it in my reply too. Hope that is not too spammy. ) thanks Sue -----Original Message----- From: Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki [mailto:tkach@japan.email.ne.jp] Sent: 05 March 2011 13:00 To: Sue Thomas; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America Hi, Sue, For Japan, Jun MURAI, basically "The Father" of the Internet in Japan. For an English-language overview of his past and future visions in Japan, do a search in the Japan Times online (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/). Wrote two best-selling books about the possibilities of the Internet (in Japanese), one in the late 1990s and another about three or four years ago. Izumi AIZU, former head of GLOCOM (Center for Global Communications) in Japan. Colleague of Howard Rheingold, is the center of the chapter on Japan in "The Virtual Community" (http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/, see Chapter Seven link). Shumpei KUMON, another "Father of the Internet" in Japan. Founded the "New Institute for Social Knowledge and Collaboration" at Tama University. Also famous for for popularizing the phrase "Information Society" in Japan. Joichi ITO, ranked by TIME magazine as one of the "Cyberelite." Is on the board of Creative Commons and is a member of ICANN. Brother of Mimi ITO, famous for her research on cellular phone use in Japan (one of the editors of "Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life," probably the best-known English-language book on mobile phones in Japan). HTH Leslie -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, Associate Professor Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Tsukuba Email: tkach@japan.email.ne.jp *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Many thanks Mauricio. This is my first encounter with tropical geometry - had never heard of it before. Best wishes Sue -----Original Message----- From: Mauricio Martins [mailto:maurimartins@gmail.com] Sent: 05 March 2011 13:39 To: Sue Thomas Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; medianthro@lists.easaonline.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America Dear Sue, For Brazil, I remember: Imre Simon http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Simon Mauricio On 5 March 2011 05:14, 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

The Gateway

Leicester

LE1 9BH, UK

e: sue.thomas@dmu.ac.uk

t: @suethomas

w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>

_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

For Russia one would also want to mention Maksim Moshkow, the author of lib.ru (an online library) and Anton Nosik, a co-founder of many early Russian online projects. One of Nosik's claim to fame is that he is followed on Twitter by President Medvedev despite the fact that his twitter screen name is just one letter short of being unprintable. - yuri On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Tatyana Lockot <tatyana.lockot@gmail.com> wrote:

Sue,

For Russia and RuNet it would have to be Artemy Lebedev, founder of Art.Lebedev studio. He's an icon, very popular, and his blog has thousands of readers, he's often quoted.

My vague two cents: Um, non-US original Wikipedians (OWs?) like Angela Beesley? The Korean blogger who blogged about economics, caused a major government crisis and was arrested a couple years ago? Bloggers from Iran, Egypt, etc who have been criticising their regimes and jailed? ... cheers Mathieu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leurs, MA, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl> Date: Sunday, March 6, 2011 11:48 pm Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America To: AoIR-L Aoir <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>

Dear all, dear Sue,

Interesting question, but when approaching the project from the perspective of people who are Non- North American hot shots, Americans implicitly remain the norm. And others remain outsiders. They remain 'space invaders', in terms of Nirwal Puwar.

Anyway, in the context of the Netherlands and Europe, Neelie Kroes is interesting, making the Forbes top 100 of most influential women a couple of times. She was the former European Comissioner on Competition, dealing with operating system's interoperability, she was responsible for fining Microsoft for 500 million etc.

In the area of critical studies of digital media in the Netherlands but also globally, Geert Lovink, of the Institute of Network Cultures, is of great interest too.

Good luck with your project,

Koen.

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org namens Yuri Takhteyev Verzonden: zo 6-3-2011 23:34 Aan: AoIR-L Aoir Onderwerp: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America

For Russia one would also want to mention Maksim Moshkow, the author of lib.ru (an online library) and Anton Nosik, a co-founder of many early Russian online projects.

One of Nosik's claim to fame is that he is followed on Twitter by President Medvedev despite the fact that his twitter screen name is just one letter short of being unprintable.

- yuri

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Tatyana Lockot <tatyana.lockot@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Sue,

For Russia and RuNet it would have to be Artemy Lebedev, founder of Art.Lebedev studio. He's an icon, very popular, and his blog has thousands of readers, he's often quoted.

---

The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

**** Dr Mathieu O'Neil Adjunct Research Fellow Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute College of Arts and Social Science The Australian National University email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php

Thanks Yuri Very helpful Sue -----Original Message----- From: takhteyev@gmail.com [mailto:takhteyev@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yuri Takhteyev Sent: 06 March 2011 22:34 To: AoIR-L Aoir Cc: Sue Thomas Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America For Russia one would also want to mention Maksim Moshkow, the author of lib.ru (an online library) and Anton Nosik, a co-founder of many early Russian online projects. One of Nosik's claim to fame is that he is followed on Twitter by President Medvedev despite the fact that his twitter screen name is just one letter short of being unprintable. - yuri On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Tatyana Lockot <tatyana.lockot@gmail.com> wrote:

Sue,

For Russia and RuNet it would have to be Artemy Lebedev, founder of Art.Lebedev studio. He's an icon, very popular, and his blog has thousands of readers, he's often quoted.

Thanks Rebecca - will look into it -----Original Message----- From: R.M.Ferguson [mailto:r.m.ferguson@open.ac.uk] Sent: 05 March 2011 20:42 To: Sue Thomas; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: RE: Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from NorthAmerica How about English singer Lily Allen, who signed a record deal after her MySpace views rose into the tens of thousands? http://www.lilyallenmusic.com/lily/ Regards Rebecca Ferguson ________________________________________ From: Sue Thomas [Sue.Thomas@dmu.ac.uk] Sent: 05 March 2011 08:14 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; medianthro@lists.easaonline.org Subject: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America 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 The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH, UK e: sue.thomas@dmu.ac.uk t: @suethomas w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/> _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).