[Air-L] [External] Re: Help with digital ethnography & early Internet history
Will Mari
wtmari at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 15:01:15 PST 2020
cool and important project! methods-wise, *History in the age of abundance?
: how the web is transforming historical research* by Ian Milligan and the
classic work by Kirsten Foot, along with *The Archived Web: Doing History
in the Digital Age*, by Brügger, might be helpful, if you haven't used
those yet.
Good luck,
Will Mari
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:13 PM Peter Gloviczki <pgloviczki at coker.edu>
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> Friends,
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> On the history side, Hiltz & Turoff's Network Nation may be helpful, as
> might Communities in Cyberspace by Kollock & Smith.
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> Hope this helps, Peter
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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:26 PM Ferrier, Michelle P. <
> michelle.ferrier at famu.edu> wrote:
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> > Hi Alexis,
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> > I'm a researcher on digital ethnography and I also am the founder of
> > TrollBusters, online protection for journalists. I think you are right to
> > have concerns about your own identity as well as the effects of data
> > compromise of the cloud platforms that might put your respondents at
> risk.
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> > Have you thought about data storage and end-to-end encryption of the data
> > to shore up vulnerabilities? Have you created redundant data collection
> > receptacles to minimize tampering? Have you baked in GDPR restrictions
> and
> > limited access to those who you may not be able to serve under GDPR
> > guidelines?
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> > Just some questions to ask as you move forward.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Michelle Ferrier
> >
> > “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need
> > inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” ― J.K.
> > Rowling Michelle P Ferrier, Ph.D.
> > Dean and Professor, School of Journalism & Graphic Communication
> > Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University
> > T: 850-599-3379
> > Michelle.ferrier at famu.edu
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> > 2018 Innovative Journalism Educator (MediaShift <
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> > On 2/7/20, 11:01 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Sonja Solomun" <
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> sonja.solomun at mail.mcgill.ca>
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> > Hi Alexis,
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> > Fascinating project — re: #1 anything and everything by Mar Hicks <
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> > Good luck!
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> > 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>
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> > On Feb 7, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Alexis De Coning <
> > Alexis.DeConing at colorado.edu<mailto:Alexis.DeConing at colorado.edu>>
> wrote:
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> > 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:
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> > 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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Dr. Will Mari
Assistant Professor of Media Law and Media History
Bill and Avis Ross Professorship in Mass Communication
Manship School of Mass Communication
Louisiana State University
Vice-chair, History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication (AEJMC)
Membership co-chair, American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA)
Co-host, Journalism History Podcast
Corresponding editor, Journalism History
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