[Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet peoplenotfromNorth America

Sun Mar 6 13:50:17 PST 2011

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.

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Onderwerp: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people*not*fromNorth America

Tim Berners-Lee...

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Sue Thomas
Sent: 06 March 2011 18:04
To: Michael Gurstein; air-l at 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.

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein
Sent: 05 March 2011 14:05
To: air-l at 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 at 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 at 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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>>
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>> w: Nature and Cyberspace: stories, memes and metaphors 
>> http://www.thewildsurmise.com <http://www.thewildsurmise.com/>
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