Fwd: [occupydata] Invite for mapping OWS/OS affiliations

[Yvonne Yen Liu]

FYI

From: Max Liboiron <maxli...@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, July 04, 2014 8:49 AM
To: occup...@lists.occupy.net, gabriel....@gmail.com
Subject: [occupydata] Invite for mapping OWS/OS affiliations

Hello everyone!

A couple of people are interested in starting a small data visualization project that displays how people's affiliations with OWS, Occupy Sandy, and other CBOs/activist groups change over time. The project is meant to show that a metric of success for social movements is how people continue to work in activist/community settings, even after the end of spikes of public protest.

Ben Davalos and I are putting together a survey that asks what community/activist/advocate groups people were part of before OWS and OS, and where they have worked/volunteered/been affiliated since. We would like to partner with people to make the survey as robust as possible, to circulate it, and to visualize the results.

An imagined result: the density of affiliations with OWS and OS, with some work in activism before, and more affiliations and cross-affiliation afterwards.

We are hoping to build and circulate the survey in the next two weeks, and do data viz by the end of the summer. If anyone is interested, please let us know! If you are interested but the timeline is too tight, let us know and we can figure something out.

About us:
Max Liboiron is an Assistant Professor of culture and technology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is a  co-founding member of the Superstorm Research Lab, a mutual aid research collective on disasters. Her research and activism   focuses on how  harmful emerging phenomena such as “slow” disasters and toxicants from plastics are made manifest in science and advocacy, and how these methods of representation relate to action. www.maxliboiron.com

Ben Davalos is pursuing a Masters in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics. He is writing his dissertation on Occupy Sandy, specifically looking at the ways OWS became OS, the sense of community constructed in both movements and the replicability of OS-type responses in the case of future storms.  He is interested in how communities form in social movements.

Very best,
Max Liboiron

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