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

[Glatt,ZA (pgr)]

Hi Lexi and all,

Glad to see this has sparked some really useful conversation and recommendations about digital ethnography!

To throw in my two cents, I run the LSE Digital Ethnography Collective. We run workshops and talks every fortnight, and the next one on Monday 24th February might be of use to you. It is a workshop specifically dealing with 'Ethics in Digital Ethnographic Research', run by the fab Dr Sarah Quinton: https://salmon-rhinoceros-920.eventbritestudio.com/93265209753  We'll be livestreaming this event for those who can't be there in person here: https://youtube.com/zedstergal 

We will also shortly be sending out a shared digital ethnography reading list that we created collaboratively with our members on our mailing list, which includes a section on historical approaches to the Internet. You can join our mailing list here: https://tinyurl.com/y5a6odte or follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DigEthnogLSE 

I hope some of that is useful to you!
All the best,
Zoe

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On 08/02/2020, 19:38, "Air-L on behalf of Joly MacFie" <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

    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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