[Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America

[Anne Holappa]

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



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> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Sue Thomas <Sue.Thomas at dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Dear all
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>>
>>
>> Can anyone help me with this please?
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>>
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>> 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.
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>>
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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>> 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?
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>>
>> 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.
>>
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>> I'm sorry this is vague but hope you get the drift.  Please send
>> thoughts, links and ideas for reading matter to sue.thomas at dmu.ac.uk
>>
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>> 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
>>
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>>
>> Sue
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>> _________________
>>
>> Professor Sue Thomas
>>
>> Faculty of Humanities/Institute of Creative Technologies
>> Clephan 1.01d
>> De Montfort University
>>
>> The Gateway
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>> Leicester
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>> LE1 9BH, UK
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>> e: sue.thomas at dmu.ac.uk
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>> t: @suethomas
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>> w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors
>> http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>
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