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

Fri Feb 7 11:06:37 PST 2020

Hi Lexi,

This sounds great!

I highly recommend Jessa Lingel's *Digital Countercultures and the Struggle
for Community* (MIT Press, 2017 where Lingel develops the method “networked
field studies." It's a study of communities on the margins in earlier
Internet history so informs both of your points.

Another highly recommended book for methods and early Internet Culture is
Olga Goriunova's Art *Platforms and Cultural Production on the
Internet *(Routeledge,
2011).

All my best,
fabiola

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On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 1:48 PM Chris Julien <juliencm22 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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