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

[polita]

Sorry, Lexi

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:31 AM polita <paulina.sierra at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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