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

[Joly MacFie]

Internet Hall of Fame has some resources. And you might do well to follow
up on the some of the actual HoFers.

https://www.internethalloffame.org/




On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:40 AM Alexis De Coning <
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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