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

Catherine Summerhayes catherine.summerhayes at anu.edu.au
Fri Feb 7 22:24:38 PST 2020 

Hi Lexi
 a student of mine did a phd thesis using youtube, setting up a youtube channel himself. It should be in the ANU Library, his name is Jie Gu,
best
Catherine

Dr Catherine Summerhayes
Film and New Media Studies
School of Literature Languages and Linguistics
College of Arts and Social Sciences
Australian National University
Ph. +61 2 612 52704
https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/summerhayes-cf

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Hi Alexis,

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.

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?

Just some questions to ask as you move forward.

Sincerely,
Michelle Ferrier

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    Hi Alexis,

    Fascinating project — re: #1 anything and everything by Mar Hicks <https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmarhicks.com%2Fwriting.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfc0766188a6d4aa6678808d7abe6fbbe%7C2526db3cd5034dfea0e60c41a20b52d2%7C0%7C1%7C637166880876061689&sdata=k0ukWwnng2XCGN1g%2FygN377EUa5vbdq88cNvuIxAgdk%3D&reserved=0>

    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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