[Air-L] Help with digital ethnography & early Internet history

[polita]

Hello!
Just came back from a winter workshop in Lisbon, take alook at NodeXL [
http://nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Default.aspx]. It is a tool created by
Social Media Research Foundation. They did some interesting work and #
searches on masculinity while we were there which were Twitter based. If
you think it could help, I can give you someone's email so you can get in
touch with them!

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:01 AM Sonja Solomun <sonja.solomun at mail.mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> Hi Alexis,
>
> Fascinating project — re: #1 anything and everything by Mar Hicks <
> http://marhicks.com/writing.html>
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
> Sonja Solomun
> PhD Communication Studies
> McGill University
> Research Fellow
> Max Bell School of Public Policy
> McGill University
> sonja.solomun at mcgill.ca<mailto:sonja.solomun at mcgill.ca>
> 514-291-2711
> @sonja_solomun
>
> On Feb 7, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Alexis De Coning <
> Alexis.DeConing at colorado.edu<mailto:Alexis.DeConing at colorado.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hi AIR folks,
>
> Long-time follower, first-time emailer! I'm a PhD candidate in Media
> Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. I study the men's rights
> movement, using interviews, ethnography, archival research, and textual
> analysis. I'm currently looking at both pre-digital and digital materials,
> and trying to unpack how the movement "came online" around the 1990s. I'm
> reaching out to elicit some advice, recommendations, and help with a few
> challenges I'm encountering:
>
> 1. Can anyone recommend good sources on early Internet history,
> particularly with regards to gender? I'm especially interested in how and
> when "regular" people started to adopt Internet technologies. I've found
> some interesting evidence in print materials from the early 1990s that show
> men's rights activists transitioning to online spaces, but I'd like to
> historicize and contextualize what I'm seeing.
>
> 2. I'd like to start doing some "digital ethnography" via Twitter. My
> university's IRB liaison suggested I build a simple webpage where I can
> explain my research, have my consent form, etc. and link to it in my
> Twitter profile/tweets to meet IRB's standards for consent with human
> subjects. However, given the population I study, I'm concerned about
> personal safety, doxxing, harassment, etc. I don't want to be paranoid, but
> I also don't want to be naive about putting my personal information into
> the digital sphere via an easily-hackable webpage. Any advice or
> recommendations on digital security or how to go about digital ethnography
> with "difficult" populations be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Lexi de Coning
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