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

[Sue Thomas]

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 at gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 March 2011 13:39
To: Sue Thomas
Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; medianthro at 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 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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