Over the last few years, I've been working on a project with Tim Highfield that explores the connections and disjunctions of activism that crosses online and offline spaces, Mapping Movements. We had a book contract to bring the research together and write up some material that hasn't made it into other publications, but we've decided … Continue reading Wrapping up Mapping Movements
Tag: social movement research
AoIR16: Day 1, part 2. Responsive policies and the feminist illuminati
The Responsive Policies session began with Nathan Fisk's work on 'Vile pornography, sexual miscreants, and electronic stalkers: policy discourse of youth internet safety'. Fisk argued that we are in a general mode of crisis, in which we're seeing a transition from ways of controlling society that are focused on segmented, regimented space and time (the … Continue reading AoIR16: Day 1, part 2. Responsive policies and the feminist illuminati
Upcoming presentation: social movements and big data research
In October Tim and I will be presenting on the methodological underpinnings of our Mapping Movements project at the Compromised Data? colloquium at Ryerson University. Our paper examines some of the problems with big data research on social movements: Social movement research and big data: critiques and alternatives This paper examines the growing use of … Continue reading Upcoming presentation: social movements and big data research
Research ethics/research subjects
Over the last few days I've stumbled across a few different texts that relate to research ethics and the ways in which we treat the subjects of research... I. The first, Jennifer Earl's (2000) 'Methods, movements and outcomes', advocates a more rigorous approach to the study of social movement outcomes. Earl outlines some of the … Continue reading Research ethics/research subjects
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