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/>
Dear Sue - If you find any - can you share please? Also - I suspect if you are looking for involvement *ON* the internet through internet visible content or such you may find less... Engineers, Coders and such may not be visible in quite that way... but perhaps you are asking about a particular kind of visibility and that visibility can be noted only through particular cultural (and I dont mean cultural as in east, west, north, south and so on) lenses.... who becomes visible as involved in the Internet or global media and in what ways? thanks, r 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/>
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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/>
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Emily Dickinson: Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/emilydicki154094.html#ixzz1FjYGBc 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/>
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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/>
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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/>
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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/>
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Thanks, Anne, for both your mails! -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Anne Holappa Sent: 05 March 2011 13:51 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not*from North America 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/>
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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
_________________
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The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH, UK
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t: @suethomas
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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
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
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 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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/>
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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/>
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In Italy it could include: Prof. Michele Sorice Facoltà di Scienze Politiche della LUISS "Guido Carli Roma http://docenti.luiss.it/sorice/ and Prof. Antonio Spadaro Pontificia Università Gregoriana Roma http://www.antoniospadaro.net/ http://www.cyberteologia.it/ Norman -------------------------------------------------- From: "Sue Thomas" <Sue.Thomas@dmu.ac.uk> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 9:14 AM To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; <medianthro@lists.easaonline.org> Subject: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from NorthAmerica
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/>
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For Indonesia: http://id.wikibooks.org/wiki/Sejarah_Internet_Indonesia/Pelaku_Sejarah_Inter... also, Merlyna Lim is one of the first Indonesian internet scholars: http://merlyna.org/ and while not Indonesians themselves, David T. Hill and Krishna Sen are two Australian scholars whose main focus is Indonesian Internet culture. Warnet will be one of culturally-specific uses of the Internet in Indonesia and Merlyna Lim has done extensive research on it. izul 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/>
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Many thanks Izul Very helpful Best Sue From: iskandar zulkarnain [mailto:iskandar.zulkarnain.78@gmail.com] Sent: 05 March 2011 19:19 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 For Indonesia: http://id.wikibooks.org/wiki/Sejarah_Internet_Indonesia/Pelaku_Sejarah_Inter... also, Merlyna Lim is one of the first Indonesian internet scholars: http://merlyna.org/ and while not Indonesians themselves, David T. Hill and Krishna Sen are two Australian scholars whose main focus is Indonesian Internet culture. Warnet will be one of culturally-specific uses of the Internet in Indonesia and Merlyna Lim has done extensive research on it. izul 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/ -- Iskandar Zulkarnain HASTAC Scholars 2010 Website: https://www.hastac.org/users/zhoel13 <http://www.hastac.org/scholars> Co-Editors Invisible Culture An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture University of Rochester Website: http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ Rochester Intermedia Studies Group Ph.D. Student Visual and Cultural Studies 424 Morey Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627
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. More info in English and Russian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art._Lebedev_Studio http://www.tema.ru/ - personal webpage http://tema.livejournal.com/ - his LiveJournal You can google him for more. Cheers, On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:14 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/>
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That's great Tatyana - haven't heard of him before From: air.ocean@gmail.com [mailto:air.ocean@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tatyana Lockot Sent: 05 March 2011 20:25 To: Sue Thomas Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America 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. More info in English and Russian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art._Lebedev_Studio http://www.tema.ru/ - personal webpage http://tema.livejournal.com/ - his LiveJournal You can google him for more. Cheers, On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:14 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/ -- Tetyana Lokot Doctoral student in MassComm Head of New Media Sequence Mohyla School of Journalism National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" 8/5, Volos`ka Str., building 4, office 404, Kyiv, Ukraine, 04070 mob: +380506611020 http://www.j-school.kiev.ua
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.
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.
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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.
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Thanks Mathieu -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Mathieu ONeil Sent: 07 March 2011 08:41 To: Leurs, MA, K.H.A. (Koen) Cc: AoIR-L Aoir Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America 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.
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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.
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).
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).
Hi A few Norwegian names: Yngvar Lundh who is known for his work for bringing both ARPANET and the internet to Norway. (Norway was, BTW the first country outside US to connect to the internet, 20 minutes before the UK :-) ) http://www.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/articles/misc/workshop000.txt http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yngvar_Lundh Pål Spilling, professor at the University of Oslo and the UNIK Graduate Center at Kjeller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5l_Spilling The people behind Opera Software, famous a.o. for bringing the internet onto small screen devices, including the founders Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsøy, as well as the CTO Håkon Wium Lie, famous for proposing the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) (all easily searchable) All of the above were working at, or affiliated with, the research department of the incumbent telecom operator of Norway, Televerket (which later was privatized, changing name to Telenor). Other notable contributions include Fast Search & Transfer (now part of Microsoft), established by a group stemming from Department of Computer and Information Science at NTNU. Key persons include Espen Brodin, Arne Halaas and John Markus Lervik. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Search_%26_Transfer BR John W. Bakke (Norway - working within Telenor) -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Sue Thomas Sent: 5. mars 2011 09:14 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/
Sue: in Argentina we have Alejandro Piscitelli, Diego Levis, Carlos Scolari, Anibal Ford, Nestor Garcia Canclini. Best, Alejandro Tortolini Scitech journalist - Teacher Buenos Aires - Argentina
In South Africa we have a couple: 1. Mark Shuttleworth - more famous for how he used the money that he made on the Internet, than his role in the Internet itself. He was the first South African to go to space, and has started many foundations promoting Science and Technology - and is behind a big push to get open source software into schools (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth) / http://www.markshuttleworth.com/ 2. Ronnie Apteker - was part of the team that started Internet Solutions - and now makes movies. May seem a bit thin - there are some very famous South African who no longer live in South Africa..... Confluence || Applied research| 082 880 5587 | 011 465 0386 | www.confluence.co.za | michele@confluence.co.za || -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alejandro Tortolini Sent: 08 March 2011 02:34 PM 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 Sue: in Argentina we have Alejandro Piscitelli, Diego Levis, Carlos Scolari, Anibal Ford, Nestor Garcia Canclini. Best, Alejandro Tortolini Scitech journalist - Teacher Buenos Aires - Argentina _______________________________________________ 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/
participants (19)
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Alejandro Tortolini -
Anne Holappa -
Guillaume Latzko-Toth -
iskandar zulkarnain -
jeremy hunsinger -
john-willy.bakke@telenor.com -
Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki -
Leurs, MA, K.H.A. (Koen) -
Mathieu ONeil -
Mauricio Martins -
Michael Gurstein -
Michele Sohn -
Norman Pena -
R.M.Ferguson -
Radhika Gajjala -
S.Livingstone@lse.ac.uk -
Sue Thomas -
Tatyana Lockot -
Yuri Takhteyev