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 YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/user/Zedstergal> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/ZoeGlatt> | LSE bio <http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/phd-researchers/zoe-glatt> On 08/02/2020, 19:38, "Air-L on behalf of Joly MacFie" <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of joly@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@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 > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- - _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/