
We Are More Than Footnotes: Black Women and Intellectual Theft | Aisha Mahmud: 127Ĭhapter 12. The Challenges of Doing Qualitative Research on Tumblr: Experience and Advice from Three Scholars of Young People’s Tumblr Use | Akane Kanai, Crystal Abidin, and Matthew Hart: 114Ĭhapter 11. Screaming into the Void: Reconceptualizing Privacy, the Personal, and the Public through the Perspectives of Young Tumblr Users | Julian Burton: 103Ĭhapter 10. Tumblr Time: How Tumblr’s Temporal Features Shape Community Memory and Knowledge | Milena Popova: 81Ĭhapter 9. Divine Fools and Ridiculous Mystics: Tumblr Humor as an Act of Defiance | The-Cimmerians: 75Ĭhapter 8. Reblogs, Monsters, and Erotic Amphibians: The Process of Critical Analysis on Tumblr | Indira Neill Hoch: 69Ĭhapter 7. Under the Radar: A Conversation about Tumblr in the Public Sphere with Aja Romano and Elizabeth Minkel: 63Ĭhapter 6. Blackout, Black Excellence, Black Power: Strategies of Everyday Online Activism on Black Tumblr | Kendra Calhoun: 48Ĭhapter 5.

Going Down the Rabbit Hole: An Interview with Amanda Brennan, Head of Content Insights and Social, Tumblr: 37Ĭhapter 4.

Lost in the “Dash”: How Tumblr Fosters Virtuous Cycles of Content and Community | Nicholas Proferes and Katherine E. You Must Be New Here: An Introduction | Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch: 1Ĭhapter 2.

An entire generation of young people that is now beginning to influence mass culture and politics came of age on Tumblr, and this volume is an indispensable guide to the many ways this platform works.Ĭhapter 1.

Perfect for those unfamiliar with the platform as well as those who grew up on it, this volume contains essays and artwork that span many different topics: fandom platform structure and design race, gender and sexuality, including queer and trans identities aesthetics disability and mental health and social media privacy and ethics. 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 progressive youth culture, with the New York Times referring to 2014 as the dawning of the “age of Tumblr activism.” This book takes an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr.
