Articles by: Nyx McLean

Nyx McLean is a transdisciplinary researcher who writes queerly about the internet, digital communities, and social movements. Their core area of research specialisation is LGBTIAQ+ identities and communities and those communities’ negotiated use of digital technology to form publics and counter-publics to resist the status quo. Currently, they are exploring specifically transgender and non-binary people’s use of digital platforms to create safe spaces and spaces of belonging. Nyx also studies feminist internet research methodologies and ethical frameworks and is currently working on the Feminist Internet Research Network’s Meta-Research project.

Feminist Internet Research Is Messy

Feminist Internet Research Is Messy

Abstract: Feminist internet research is messy and conducting meta-research on feminist internet research is even messier. This is a critically reflective article on the author’s experience conducting a meta-research project on the feminist internet research methodologies and ethical frameworks of the eight Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) research projects. The piece argues that the messiness of research is not something to shy away from but rather to embrace.