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

[Chris Julien]

Hi Lexi,

I'm also studying incels! I'm looking at networks on twitter, and I'm also
analyzing their tweets (currently have 180k tweets and scraping more each
week!)

Re: your question, I believe that Alex DiBranco has some articles
specifically about the history of MRAs, etc. Also be sure to check out this
institute that Alex and others have recently launched
https://www.malesupremacism.org/. Additionally, they're having a small
conference, co-hosted with UC-Berkeley, this coming August before ASA meets
in San Francisco! Abstracts are due Feb 10 so there's a bit of time left!
https://crws.berkeley.edu/call-papers-conference-right-wing-studies-conference-research-male-supremacism
I know I'll be at least attending, and hopefully presenting!

Please don't hesitate to reach out!

Best,
Chris


Chris Julien
PhD Student (PSU), MA (UNCG)
State College, PA, USA
www.chrisjulien.com


On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:32 PM polita <paulina.sierra at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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