[Air-L] Help with digital ethnography & early Internet history
Crystal Abidin
crystalabidin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 23:16:23 PST 2020
Hi Lexi and the AoIR crew,
Here are some reflections from a group of digital ethnographers that might
be useful: https://anthrodendum.org/tag/private-messages-from-the-field/ Our
special issue, based on these provocations, on dilemmas from practising
digital ethnography will be out in a few weeks.
/C
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Dr Crystal Abidin, PhD
wishcrys.com
Senior Research Fellow & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin
University
Affiliate Researcher, MMTC, Jönköping University
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia / Pacific Standard Magazine 30 Top Thinkers Under 30
Books:
Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (2020)
<https://wishcrys.com/instagram-polity/>
Microcelebrity Around the Globe: Approaches to Cultures of Internet Fame
(2018) <https://wishcrys.com/microcelebrity-around-the-globe-emerald/>
Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online (2018)
<https://wishcrys.com/internet-celebrity-emerald/>
Recent publications:
"Si Geena" (Brat): Un-Social Digital Juveniles' Episodic Resistance in
Singapore (2019)
<https://brill.com/view/journals/dias/aop/article-10.1163-22142312-12340118/article-10.1163-22142312-12340118.xml?rskey=3AvAEw&result=5>
Minahs and Minority Celebrity: Parody YouTube Influencers and Minority
Politics in Singapore (2019)
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1698816>
Navigating Interdisciplinarity as a Precarious Early Career Researcher
(2019)
<https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/6880?fbclid=IwAR3qSTzf7HbuZG_dFgn5JaPFnZNL7hiBqOVEMuRU_xmTcYn2Ce1Pz9EeHyo>
Tacit Labours of Digital Social Research as an Early Career Researcher
(2019) <https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/article/view/10>
<http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1274581&dswid=1725>
On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 14:25, Catherine Summerhayes <
catherine.summerhayes at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> 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
>
> ________________________________
> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ferrier,
> Michelle P. <michelle.ferrier at famu.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2020 6:26 AM
> To: Sonja Solomun <sonja.solomun at mail.mcgill.ca>;
> Alexis.DeConing at colorado.edu <Alexis.DeConing at colorado.edu>
> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Help with digital ethnography & early Internet history
>
> 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
>
> “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
> Twitter: @mediaghosts
> Founder, Troll-Busters.com <http://www.troll-busters.com/>
> Principal Investigator, The Media Deserts Project (<http://>
> www.mediadeserts.com <http://www.mediadeserts.com>)
> Project Director: The Media Seeds Project (ZipIt.News <
> http://www.zipit.news/>)
> 2018 Innovative Journalism Educator (MediaShift <
> http://mediashift.org/2018/01/edshift20-honoring-innovative-journalism-educators-2017/
> >)
>
>
> On 2/7/20, 11:01 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Sonja Solomun" <
> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of sonja.solomun at mail.mcgill.ca>
> wrote:
>
> This email originated outside of Florida A&M University. If you think
> this is a phishing (scam) email, please forward to phishbowl at famu.edu or
> call 412-HELP.
>
> ________________________________
>
>
> 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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