"Things are complicated now that Twitter is collapsing and self-destructing! How can we do our wide-area sampling to investigate social trends and reactions now!? We must find a way to do this in newly-arising social spaces, like the Fediverse!"
*peeks out bleary-eyed and chucks "Seeing Like A State" at you, then rolls over and goes back to sleep*
*tosses around a bit and rolls over again, and hurls "Ethnography For Dummies But Like Dummies Who Care About Doing Ethical Ethnography" at roughly the same location without opening my eyes*
"But that's so MESSY! The data we'd get from that would be so bad and ungeneralizeable--"YOUR DATA WAS ALREADY BAD, YOU JUST IGNORED THAT.
This is a subtoot, but if you're one of the people I'm subtooting know that I'm more conciliatory and softer and less confident in one-on-one conversation, and I only RARELY bite. (And probably just, not, on this topic.)
@gaditb if you're going to cover the fediverse and you haven't read imagining transgender by david valentine go do that first
@Lady I haven't read this (or, like, any basic ethnography stuff! I can't actually rec anything specific for that!), but that's why I am sleeping, and not trying to make sociological or ethnographic claims based on spurious data practices of questionable ethics.
