[Street] Occupy Boston Mailing List Study

Erhardt Graeff erhardt at media.mit.edu
Tue Jan 29 19:24:02 EST 2013


Hi Max,

I do not have a specific hypothesis driving my research, rather I intend this to be a descriptive project to understand how emails were used within Occupy Boston.  My specific goals are to describe how the mailing lists were used in terms of networks of individuals and the use of specific words over time. My colleagues and I are very interested in social movements, especially the Occupy Movement. I hope this contributes to both academic literature as well as to future activism.

Thanks,
Erhardt

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On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 12:38 PM, max at habloamericano.com wrote:

> Dear Erhardt,
>  
> I think it is well within reason to inquire: What is your hypothesis? That is to say, what do you expect to find in the data? How might your results be leveraged to improve Occupy Boston's and other organizations' communication protocols? Or, what sorts of insights can OB hope to gain?
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> Max
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> On Jan 29, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Aria Littlhous wrote:
> > I'd be happier about this if Erhardt was also willing/able to help Steve R. with his working group project. In other words, I often feel like there are more people studying Occupy than participating in it.
> >  
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Erhardt Graeff <erhardt at media.mit.edu (mailto:erhardt at media.mit.edu)> wrote:
> > > Hello members of Occupy Boston's Street mailing list,
> > >  
> > > Some of you may recall that I, Erhardt Graeff—a student at the MIT Media Lab—was requesting access to various Occupy Boston mailing lists this past fall in order to conduct research. I have since then gone through the Institute Review Board process at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (known as COUHES) in order to get their approval to conduct my study according to strict ethical parameters.  
> > >  
> > > The purpose of my study is to understand the structure of Occupy Boston’s mailing lists in order to better understand how social movements use such lists to correspond and organize. I will be anonymizing all of the emails so that there will be no identifying information in terms of names, email addresses, or even the bodies of emails. Anonymization will be accomplished by replacing names and email addresses with numerical identifiers that will not be in anyway tied to the original person’s data. Email bodies will be scrambled so that only keywords are left in a random order.  
> > >  
> > > I am now asking for your approval to use the email archives of this list from September 2011 – October 2012 for this research. If you are uncomfortable having your emails included in the study please email me directly at erhardt at media.mit.edu (mailto:erhardt at media.mit.edu).  
> > >  
> > > Once my research is completed, I will post any results I have to this mailing list.
> > >  
> > > Thank you,
> > > Erhardt
> > >  
> > > NOTE: If you feel you have been treated unfairly, or you have questions regarding your rights as a research subject, you may contact the Chairman of the Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects, M.I.T., Room E25-143b, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, phone 1-617-253-6787 (tel:1-617-253-6787).
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> > > Erhardt Graeff :: erhardtgraeff.com (http://erhardtgraeff.com/) :: @erhardt (http://twitter.com/erhardt)
> > > MIT Center for Civic Media (http://civic.mit.edu/) :: erhardt at media.mit.edu (mailto:erhardt at media.mit.edu)
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> > >  
> > >  
> > > Apologies if you received this email multiple times. Below is a list of the mailing lists this was sent to:  
> > > Bank Action (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/bank-action)
> > > Citizens United to end Public Bribery (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/citizensunited)
> > > Climate Action (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/climate-action)
> > > Community Forum (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/community_forum)
> > > Creative Acts and Subversive Arts (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/arts)
> > > Decolonize to Liberate (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/decolonize)
> > > Everyone Submit (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/everyone-submit/)
> > > Facilitation (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/facilitation)
> > > Faith and Spirituality (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/spiritual)
> > > Foreclosures (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/foreclosures)
> > > FSU Announcements (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/fsu-announce)
> > >  
> > > FSU discussion (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/fsu)
> > > HQ (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/hq)
> > > InterOccupy Comms (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/interoccupy)
> > > Occupy Boston Outreach (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/occupybostonoutreach)
> > > OB Action Announce (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob_action_announce)
> > > OB Ideas (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ideas)
> > > OB Library (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/library)
> > > OB Live (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/live)
> > > OB Media (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob-media/)
> > > OB Social Media (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob-media-social/)
> > > OB External Media (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob-media-external/)
> > >  
> > > OB SAA (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/saa)
> > >  
> > > OB Transparency (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/transparency)
> > > OB Updates (Daily Digest) (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/obupdates)
> > >  
> > > OB Winterization (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/winter)
> > >  
> > > Radio (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/radio)
> > > Street (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/street)
> > > Sustainable Economy (https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainableeconomy)  
> > >  
> > >  
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