[Air-L] Help with digital ethnography & early Internet history
Polina Kolozaridi
poli.kolozaridi at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 13:47:03 PST 2020
Dear Lexi and all,
concerning early internet history, the Web that Was conference might be of
interest to you: https://thewebthatwas.net/.
Also, the Janet Abbate book is close to it (and the 200+ citations of the
recent years are mostly on gender issues in computing and sometimes
internet)
Abbate, J. (2012). *Recoding gender: Women's changing participation in
computing*. MIT Press.
In the cyberfeminists research projects, it is often lots of useful and
interesting things moving the position from the Western-centric one. See,
for example, Gajjala, R. (2003). South Asian digital diasporas and
cyberfeminist webs: Negotiating globalization, nation, gender and
information technology design. *Contemporary South Asia*, *12*(1), 41-56.
And concerning both digital ethnography and early internet, of course,
Annette Markham Life online (Markham, A. N. (1998). *Life online:
Researching real experience in virtual space* (Vol. 6). Rowman Altamira).
If you'll be interested in some post-Soviet context connected with the
early internet/web history, do not hesitate to write me, I'll be glad to be
helpful, as we try to dig into it with my peers for the last several years.
kindly yours,
Polina
вт, 11 февр. 2020 г. в 15:15, Glatt,ZA (pgr) <Z.A.Glatt at lse.ac.uk>:
> 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
>
> ________________________
> Zoë Glatt
> www.zoeglatt.com <http://www.zoeglatt.com/>
> ESRC PhD Researcher in Media & Communications
> London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
> Managing Editor: Communication, Culture & Critique
> Co-Founder: LSE Digital Ethnography Collective @DigEthnogLSE <
> https://twitter.com/DigEthnogLSE>
> Graduate Student Rep: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
> Associate Lecturer in Media & Communications (2019/20): Goldsmiths
> University
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> https://twitter.com/ZoeGlatt> | LSE bio <
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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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