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Tumblr as a methodological tool for data archiving: The case of a Calzona Tumblr
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2018 This case study of a Tumblr created to study the impact of a specific episode of Grey's Anatomy (2005–) on the fandom of a particular romantic pairing shows how ethnoresearchers—that is, researchers embedded into the community they are studying—can use ...
Mélanie Bourdaa
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2018 Tumblr's modes of looping and repetition (especially via the circulation of GIFs) offer a potential source of comfort during moments of fannish rupture.
Rebecca Williams
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Tumblr's Xkit Guy, social media modding, and code as resistance
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021 The platformalization of the internet means that fan communities must make homes in spaces that they do not own. Tumblr has lately been the chosen home for many online fandoms because of its affordances for anonymity and lack of censorship.
Mehitabel Glenhaber
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Dermatology Online Journal, 2014 Tumblr broke into the social media scene in 2007 as a micro-blogging platform that hosts 169 million blogs, 75 billion total posts, and 111 million posts daily to date. This study aimed to determine the presence of dermatology-focused journals, organizations, and groups on Tumblr.
Correnti, Christina +4 more
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Historicizing the Fan Archive of Talia al Ghul
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022 This personal essay reflects on an online fan archive for DC Comics character Talia al Ghul that was abandoned, after which time dramatic shifts in the fandom occurred, thereby situating the archive as an artifact of the recent historical past and as a ...
Tosha R. Taylor
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Pic Sets, Fan Cognition, and Fannish Networks of Meaning
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022 Fans' creative works are not evidence of thinking but acts of thinking, forming part of the cognitive system of fandom. Work in cognitive science and philosophy can provide a useful theoretical framework for exploring the mental, embodied, cultural, and ...
Jessica Hautsch
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Lesbian Fandom Remakes the Boy Band
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 Lesbians and other queer women are typically absent from theorizations of boy band fandom even though boy bands often have sizable lesbian fan bases. Lesbian fandom of the British–Irish boy band One Direction congregated primarily on Tumblr; this fandom ...
Jessica Pruett
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The Secret History: un fandom clave de la Dark Academia
Contratexto, 2022 Este artículo busca realizar una primera aproximación a la comunidad estética Dark Academia, que adquirió una amplia popularidad durante la pandemia. Asimismo, se explora su relación con el fandom de la novela The Secret History (Donna Tartt, 1992). Para
Lara López Millán
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"Carmilla" fandom as a lesbian community of feeling
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021 The fandom of the contemporary lesbian web series, Carmilla (2014–16), is an affective community built on a set of inclusions and exclusions. Carmilla, a 121-episode web series shot in vlog format, follows the relationship between a human girl and a ...
Sneha Kumar
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, 2020 "This book takes an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr. Though it does not receive nearly as much attention as other social media such as Twitter or Facebook, Tumblr and its users have been hugely influential in creating and shifting popular culture, especially ...
Allison McCracken +3 more
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