%0 Journal Article
%T Toward a Militant Ethnography of Infrastructure: Cybercartographies of Order, Scale, and Scope across the Occupy Movement
%A Joan Donovan
%J Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
%@ 1552-5414
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0891241618792311
%X Taking networked social movements as a fieldsite, I chart how the Occupy Movement transformed as activists turned to building infrastructure as a mode of political participation. Critically, infrastructure is not simply a feature of networked social movements, but forms its core capacities. Integrating insights from militant ethnography with STS research on infrastructure studies, I illustrate how to use these methods to render visible the infrastructure of networked social movements. Because militant research projects and STS scholarship have a dual role of making knowledge about as well as knowledge for participants, examining the epistemological foundations of social movement research requires understanding the researcher¡¯s purpose for participating and, then, operationalizing their knowledge. To illustrate this, I introduce cybercartography, a theory/methods package, for mapping organizational change in order, scale, and scope across networked social movements. As such, cybercartography bridges academic knowledge production with activists¡¯ goals to organize action
%K social movements
%K militant ethnography
%K internet studies
%K feminist STS
%K infrastructure
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0891241618792311