[Street] Occupy Boston Mailing List Study
Aria Littlhous
aria at littlhous.net
Tue Jan 29 12:26:53 EST 2013
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>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.
>
> 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.
>
> ----
> Erhardt Graeff :: erhardtgraeff.com :: @erhardt<http://twitter.com/erhardt>
> MIT Center for Civic Media <http://civic.mit.edu> :: erhardt at media.mit.edu
>
>
> 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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"Our goal is a society that prioritizes the needs of all before the profits
of the few." passed by Occupy Boston General Assembly 11/29/11
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