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

[Sue Thomas]

Thanks, Anne, for both your mails!

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Sent: 05 March 2011 13:51
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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



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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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>> 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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>> _________________
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>> Professor Sue Thomas
>>
>> 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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