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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Tumblr"”.
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The young nostalgics: contemporary constructions of "pastness" on Tumblr microblogs
… community on the popular microblogging platform Tumblr. Drawing on original ethnographic and semiotic work, as well as on a wide range of sources centred on its medical past and subsequent literary, psychological and social acculturation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, I plead for an …
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Throne of Fans: Examining the Roles of Feminism, Platform and Community in an Online Fandom
… J Maas (SJM) novels on the social network site Tumblr. The goals are to show how a shift to an open social network site has changed the practice of fandom and how various feminisms are applied to popular culture and learned through Tumblr. An ethnographic study and textual analysis on SJM fandom …
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Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition
… as they exist on the social media site Tumblr. Blending feminist ethnographic fieldwork with post-structuralist and intersectional theoretical analysis, I interrogate fat positive identity formation, Tumblr as a site of resistance and the representational politics embedded in the fat …
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Inclusion in fandom : how Harry Potter fans rhetorically create representation.
… and normalize LGBTQ+ representation, how the Tumblr platform serves as a central space for fans to visually characterize diversity through the fan practice of racebending, and how meta narratives developed on Tumblr construct a greater understanding and significance of women in the Harry …
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Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century
… could be found, including Reddit, Twitter, and Tumblr. It discusses the idea of “transtrenders” as cultural appropriators, looks at the role of passing, and wanting to and trying to pass, in the transgender community and in conceptions of who is truly transgender and who isn’t. This thesis looks …
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The animated gaystream: how streaming services, social media, adult fandom, and the visibility of creators have influenced representations of gender and sexuality in twenty-first century U.S. children’s animation
… argues that social media sites such as X and Tumblr as well as streaming services such as Netflix and HBOMax have shifted the dynamics between fans, creators and network. In so doing, it analyses the interactions between adult fans and creators of American children’s animation in ways that …
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Platform poetry and restorative experience: creator, community and catharsis
… community building but also star treatment, Tumblr prioritises collectivism over individualism, while Facebook is a space where third parties crosspost poetry to articulate aspects of their identities to their connections. An author can be an altruist or a careerist, a detached facilitator, …
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L'image exposée. La représentation des photographies de l'Agence France-Presse sur les réseaux sociaux numériques
… sociaux » – Instagram, Facebook, Twitter et Tumblr en têtes –, à l’aune d’une réflexion sur les transformations et les mutations des pratiques photojournalistiques en régime « numérique ». L’étude se divise en deux axes : une approche sémiotique d’abord, qui permet de comprendre de quelle …
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Lifecycle of viral YouTube videos
… provided by social media like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and more, YouTube videos have the potential to spread like wildfire. A term that has been coined to describe such videos is "viral videos." This comes from the scientific definition of viral, which involves the contagious nature of the …
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Linguistically Differentiating Acts and Recalls of Racial Microaggressions on Social Media
… media discussions on platforms like Reddit and Tumblr. Additionally, we collaborated with Black participants in a workshop to hand-annotate and verify the corpus. Using natural language processing techniques and qualitative analysis, we examine the language underlying acts and recalls of racial …
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Digital Rhetoric of the Invisible: Bisexual Literacy Practices on TikTok, 2020–2021
… compared to the discursive environment on Tumblr approximately 10 years earlier. Throughout the dissertation, I also attempt to grapple with the ethical and political responsibilities of studying bisexual digital literacies during a time of historic attacks on trans people both in the …
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"A Sea of Red Ink and Broken Dreams": Copyright, Gatekeeping, and the Curtailing of Creativity and Creators' Rights in the Age of Streaming
… posts across Twitter (formerly known as X), Tumblr, and Reddit. The discourses surrounding the writers’ strike highlighted several areas in which there was a breakdown in the intent behind copyright law and how it actually functions and impacts those in the media industry. With this in mind, …
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“Lizzie’s Story Felt Like Home:” Meaning-Making and Narratively-Constructed Digital Intimacy in Literary Web Series
… affordances of YouTube, Twitter, and Tumblr; LBD’s creation of narrative immersion for its readers; and the literary resonance of LBD’s source material, Pride and Prejudice. Results from a mixed-methods online survey of LBD readers and follow-up semistructured interviews with select …
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Microbloguing e presença social no ensino aberto, a distância e em rede : estudo de caso
… como Pinterest, Vine (6 segundos) ou vídeos Tumblr. A vantagem que estas ferramentas ou serviços fornecem tem a ver, por um lado, com o relativo baixo investimento de tempo e de esforço em termos de produção e de publicação, por outro lado, com a sua boa integração nas plataformas móveis …
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Interrogating tweendom online: ‘Fangirl as Pathology’, gender/age, and iCarly fandom
… online fan spaces (LiveJournal, Blogspot, and Tumblr) as a case study, it presents an empirical, observational study that aims to further understand the implications of the cultural construction and negative stereotypes of girl fans, and the extent to which they come to shape the landscape of …