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 ––––––––––––––– 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@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@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ferrier, Michelle P. <michelle.ferrier@famu.edu> Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2020 6:26 AM To: Sonja Solomun <sonja.solomun@mail.mcgill.ca>; Alexis.DeConing@colorado.edu <Alexis.DeConing@colorado.edu> Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@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@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-educa...
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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@mcgill.ca<mailto:sonja.solomun@mcgill.ca> 514-291-2711 @sonja_solomun
On Feb 7, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Alexis De Coning < Alexis.DeConing@colorado.edu<mailto:Alexis.DeConing@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.
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