RT Article
T1 Critical criminological research on environmental and social harm: some lessons learnt and suggestions for future research
JF Criminological encounters
VO 4
IS 1
SP 200
OP 205
A1 Ronco, Anna Di 1986-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1899160302
AB In this short article, I highlight the main methodological contributions of our recent research on the uses of Twitter by the criminalised environmental movement NOTAP in Italy and the intersections between online and offline representations of their protesting. As I illustrate in this piece, when studying activist technosocial practice, innovative computational tools - such as the ones we used in our studies - can facilitate the collection and sorting of important social media material related to activist practice online, which can go a long way into uncovering unrecognized sources of harm and suffering, often obscured by mainstream media. As our research demonstrates, however, to be able to comprehensively capture activist practice and, specifically, activists’ lived experiences of social control, social media research should always be combined with on-the-ground qualitative ethnographic research. To assist to the latter end, critical criminologists can also rely on a recent and quite innovative repertoire of sensory and participative (itinerant) methodologies, which I address in the final part of the article.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 203-204
K1 computational methods
K1 Critical Criminology
K1 environmental harms
K1 innovative methods
K1 Social Media
K1 Social Movements
DO 10.26395/CE21040115