UCLA ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER PRESS RELEASE

June 15, 1995

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   Contact: (310) 825-2974


First Internet Guide for Asian American Cybernauts Now Available

Los Angeles--UCLA's Asian American Studies Center and the AP-Net
consortium announce the forthcoming joint publication of the
first "An Internet Guide for Asian American Cybernauts,"
compiled, annotated and introduced by Wataru Ebihara, available 
from the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Publications, 3230
Campbell Hall, Los Angeles, CA. 90024-1546.  An assortment of
electronic mailing lists, Usenet newsgroups, Gopher servers,
World-Wide Web sites, and organizations with Internet electronic
mail addresses have been collected and described.

This comprehensive guide published in a handy 9x6 inch format is
organized around the following: electronic documents, electronic
mailing lists, mailing lists for Asian American organizations,
mailing lists for multicultural and diversity issues, Asian
American special interests, newsgroups, organizations online,
with internet references.

According to compiler/editor Ebihara, a self-identified
"cybernaut" living in Ohio, "A cybernaut is like an astronaut-an
explorer, a dreamer pushing the envelope of "cyberspace" into
the new world of information.  They are voyagers like our
immigrant Asian parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and
boat people who came to America without knowing what to
expect....Often isolated in fragmented communities across the
nation, Asian Americans from New York to Hawaii can now
transcend the barriers of space and time to participate in
conversations and to discover a new sense of fellowship."

Wataru Ebihara has been using the Internet to exchange
electronic information since 1990. He is co-founder of the Asian
American Graduate and Professional Student Organization (AAGPSO)
at Ohio State University.  With members of AAGPSO in 1992, he
initiated a national electronic network for Asian American
graduate and professional students.  As a recent PhD graduate in
electrical engineering, Wataru enjoys writing from his hometown
of Strongsville, Ohio.

The APNet consortium includes the Chinatown Service Center,
Korean Youth and Community Center, Search to Involve Pilipino
Americans, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and Visual
Communications, all of  Los Angeles. The consortium was the only
Asian American group to receive a grant from the National
Telecommunications and Information Agency  to develop an
electronic communication network.

To order the Internet Guide, send a check for ten dollars (eight
dollars plus two dollars mailing and handling)  to the UCLA
Asian American Studies Center, 3230 Campbell Hall, UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA 90024-1546 or order by credit card to Publications
(310) 825-2968, 9:00 to 2:00 P.M. Pacific Standard Time.

Russell Leong
Editor, Amerasia Journal
rleong@ucla.edu
fax 310.206.9844
voice 310.206.2892

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