Research Methods – THATCamp Feminisms East 2013 http://feminismseast2013.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Sat, 22 Jun 2013 04:24:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Modeling Activist Networks http://feminismseast2013.thatcamp.org/02/09/modeling-activist-networks/ http://feminismseast2013.thatcamp.org/02/09/modeling-activist-networks/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:44:10 +0000 http://feminismseast2013.thatcamp.org/?p=101 Continue reading →]]>

Lately I’ve become interested in the idea of building a platform for crowdsourcing information about activist affiliations that could be used to generate an open access database that would a) be available for research and b) also power web-based visualizations. So more concretely, I work on AIDS activism, and I know that a lot of people I’ve encountered in the archive participated in different organizations in different capacities. I want to model these relationships, but I would also like to have others contribute to the database, so that it’s not just based on what’s available in archives. As a group, maybe we could think about some of the technical database and visualization issues, as well as concerns about privacy and legality, or more theoretical concerns that I haven’t thought of.

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