[Note: I absolutely did post this to Tumblr, as you can tell by my, uh, language usage. Please don't stalk me lol. This is just a crosspost of the exact same thing I typed, because screenshots were being a pain.]
Hey everyone! My final project for my English class requires me to ~remix~ and ~reformat~ my final paper, and since my final paper was on Tumblr, I’m fuckin’ making it a Tumblr post. You can tell it’s a Tumblr post bc I swore in the introduction.
So, the gist of my paper was that Tumblr has a comparatively large disabled and chronically ill/chronic pain community, and because of that, it’s changed a lot of the ways people talk about these things both online and off. I used examples like spoonie culture, pain scales, image descriptions and subtitles, and trigger/content warnings. You guys already know all of this, because you’re on Tumblr, so I thought you’d maybe be more interested in something I found while researching FOR the paper.
Did you know there’s a massive collection of academic papers about Tumblr? It’s called a tumblr book and it came out last year and it’s a massive 400-page collection of academic studies and papers about Tumblr. It’s really the ONLY sort of thing of its type and it’s a game changer IMO. You can read it online for free here.
[Image ID: a picture of the front page of a tumblr book: platform and cultures by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch. End ID]
This thing is crazy, I can’t emphasize enough how great it is to see stuff I’ve personally seen happen over the last 12 years (yes I’ve been on Tumblr that long don’t @ me) discussed in academic journals. Published essays! Things I can cite in my papers and research!!! It’s hard to emphasize how great this. And check out some of the articles!
[Image ID: a page from a tumblr book’s table of contents. It reads: Section 2. #Privacy and Ethics Chapter 9. Screaming into the Void: Reconceptualizing Privacy, the Personal, and the Public through the Perspectives of Young Tumblr Users by Julian Burton Chapter 10. The Challenges of Doing Qualitative Research on Tumblr: Experience and Advice from Three Scholars of Young People’s Tumblr Use by Akane Kanai, Crystal Abidin, and Matthew Hart Chapter 11. We Are More Than Footnotes: Black Women and Intellectual Theft by Aisha Mahmud Section 3. #NSFW Chapter 12. Walled Gardens, NSFW Niches, and Horizontality: A Conversation about Tumblr Porn with Susanna Paasonen and Noah Tsika Chapter 13. NSFW as an Intervention: The Case of Sexy Selfies on Tumblr by Katrin Tiidenberg Chapter 14. Fandom Surgery by Morgan Fisher Chapter 15. TumPorn Is Dead, Long Live TumPorn! by Shaka McGlotten Section 4. #Fandom Chapter 16. A Roundtable Discussion about the Cultures of Fandom on Tumblr with Flourish Klink, Rukmini Pande, Zina Hutton, and Lori Morimoto Chapter 17. Kitten Thinks of Nothing but Murder All Day: Tumblr Text Post Memes as Fandom Détournement by J. S. A. Lowe Chapter 18. Lesbian One Direction Fans Take Over Tumblr by Jessica Pruett Chapter 19. Ships, Fans, and #beatingthedistance: Queer Intimacy and the New Genre of Interactive Memoir on Tumblr by Annie Galvin. End ID]
Seriously! Just LOOK at those titles. Given that it can be obtained for free (or bought if you’re feeling spicy), I think it’s definitely worth a romp, even if you only read a few papers that interest you.
First off, I want to tell you that I giggled so much reading through this post because of the language you used. I also think it was cool that you put a bit of a disclaimer in the beginning addressing this so as not to completely throw everyone off. The next thing I'll tell you is thank you so much for posting your findings about this book. It is infinitely cool and actually really shocking that it exists. Can you believe we live in a timeline where there is a whole book of academic papers about Tumblr phenomenon's? Oof. Imma need a minute :)
ReplyDeleteThis was a lot of fun and such a smart meta way to remix your project. You should let us know (if you want to) what your readers think of it!
ReplyDeleteThis was so creative and some thing that I would not have thought to do. It’s awesome that your project was on Tumblr and then your blog post was literally ON tumbler! I think it’s so interesting all the books that have come out that focus on social media because they are all relatively new. Also, those books are dated very quickly, so there are always new ones coming out.
ReplyDeleteGreat remix of your paper and what a cool resource for future Tumblr topics!
ReplyDelete