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

[iskandar zulkarnain]

For Indonesia:
http://id.wikibooks.org/wiki/Sejarah_Internet_Indonesia/Pelaku_Sejarah_Internet_Indonesia

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 at dmu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear all
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> Can anyone help me with this please?
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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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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Many thanks
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> Sue
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> Professor Sue Thomas
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> Faculty of Humanities/Institute of Creative Technologies
> Clephan 1.01d
> De Montfort University
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> 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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Iskandar Zulkarnain

HASTAC Scholars 2010
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Invisible Culture
An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture
University of Rochester
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