Alexis De Coning
Biographic Data
| ID | 4250289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis De Coning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | De Coning |
| SIGNATURE | DE CONING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4144-5650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Using “Small Data” to Map How Men’s Rights Came Online (Work-in-Progress)
While the advent of the Internet can be seen as a “revolution” in how social movements communicate and organize, digital methods and materials do not necessarily constitute a “revolution” in how we study movements or their histories. My paper enters this discussion by suggesting a "small data" approach for studying the early digital presence of the men’s rights movement, and its transition from print to digital media. I compare two unique data se…
Seven theses on critical empathy
Qualitative researchers of 'unsavory' populations experience a complex range of emotions as they sustain close contact with people and communities that are deemed reprehensible, dangerous, or toxic. Empathy, in particular, raises ethical and methodological challenges for scholars who must build rapport with people who may perpetuate racism, sexism, xenophobia, and so on. Drawing on existing qualitative literature and ethnographic fieldwork, I pro…
A ‘lifetime of indentured servitude
This article challenges a narrow, teleological approach to ‘platform death’ by looking at discursive continuity of a ‘dead’ men’s rights Usenet newsgroup. Using a data set of 1250 posts spanning 1994 − 2002, I track three thematic trends in the data: the ‘special treatment’ women and minorities receive that deny men their rights, the inverse relationship between men’s rights and responsibilities, and men’s anxieties around gendered roles in the f…
Recouping masculinity
The oft-cited “crisis of masculinity”—the notion that Western “masculinity is troubled, anxious, fissured, [and] unable to cope with the alienating dynamics of contemporary globalized capitalism” (
Seven theses on critical empathy
Qualitative researchers of 'unsavory' populations experience a complex range of emotions as they sustain close contact with people and communities that are deemed reprehensible, dangerous, or toxic. Empathy, in particular, raises ethical and methodological challenges for scholars who must build rapport with people who may perpetuate racism, sexism, xenophobia, and so on. Drawing on existing qualitative literature and ethnographic fieldwork, I pro…
Recouping masculinity
The oft-cited “crisis of masculinity”—the notion that Western “masculinity is troubled, anxious, fissured, [and] unable to cope with the alienating dynamics of contemporary globalized capitalism” (
A ‘lifetime of indentured servitude
This article challenges a narrow, teleological approach to ‘platform death’ by looking at discursive continuity of a ‘dead’ men’s rights Usenet newsgroup. Using a data set of 1250 posts spanning 1994 − 2002, I track three thematic trends in the data: the ‘special treatment’ women and minorities receive that deny men their rights, the inverse relationship between men’s rights and responsibilities, and men’s anxieties around gendered roles in the f…
Recouping masculinity
The oft-cited “crisis of masculinity”—the notion that Western “masculinity is troubled, anxious, fissured, [and] unable to cope with the alienating dynamics of contemporary globalized capitalism” (
A ‘lifetime of indentured servitude
This article challenges a narrow, teleological approach to ‘platform death’ by looking at discursive continuity of a ‘dead’ men’s rights Usenet newsgroup. Using a data set of 1250 posts spanning 1994 − 2002, I track three thematic trends in the data: the ‘special treatment’ women and minorities receive that deny men their rights, the inverse relationship between men’s rights and responsibilities, and men’s anxieties around gendered roles in the f…
Using “Small Data” to Map How Men’s Rights Came Online (Work-in-Progress)
While the advent of the Internet can be seen as a “revolution” in how social movements communicate and organize, digital methods and materials do not necessarily constitute a “revolution” in how we study movements or their histories. My paper enters this discussion by suggesting a "small data" approach for studying the early digital presence of the men’s rights movement, and its transition from print to digital media. I compare two unique data se…
Seven theses on critical empathy
Qualitative researchers of 'unsavory' populations experience a complex range of emotions as they sustain close contact with people and communities that are deemed reprehensible, dangerous, or toxic. Empathy, in particular, raises ethical and methodological challenges for scholars who must build rapport with people who may perpetuate racism, sexism, xenophobia, and so on. Drawing on existing qualitative literature and ethnographic fieldwork, I pro…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Sex work and related issues (2 works) · Afterlife (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)