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Articles | Volume 80, issue 4
Articles | Volume 80, issue 4
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04 Nov 2025
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On “being present in the field” in studying protest online

Elisabeth Militz

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This is a commentary on Chowra Makaremi’s (2025) "Insurrections in Iran: an off-site ethnography", which examines the Woman, Life, Freedom uprisings in Iran using social media methods. I discuss Makaremi‘s methodology of off-site ethnography and emphasize the inseparability of online and offline spaces. I show how Makaremi’s work underscores the role of social media in resistance movements, and I call for reflexive, contextualized social media research that accounts for power structures.
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Researching protest off-site: feminist perspectives