Using “Small Data” to Map How Men’s Rights Came Online (Work-in-Progress)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22009790 |
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| Authors | Alexis De Coning (0000-0002-4144-5650, West Virginia Wesleyan College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2162-3317 • E-ISSN: 2162-3317 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13410 |
| OpenAlex | W4392406539 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
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 sets involving print and digital archives to map out the geographical locations of men's rights groups and adherents in the early 1990s. I demonstrate how: 1) there is significant overlap between the print organizations and early digital spaces for men's rights activists; and 2) men’s rights communities in North America were often concentrated in areas like Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, and the North Eastern Seaboard. Ultimately, I argue that print materials, “small data,” and non-computational methods are still valuable tools to study social movements and their early digital histories
Data science · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender Politics and Representation · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Sex work and related issues
| Highly cited | No |
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