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Microblogging and social networking website
Tumblr is a microblogging and social media platform founded by David Karp in 2007 and operated by American company Tumblr, Inc., a subsidiary of Automattic. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. It has attracted significant attention and controversy for hosting a wide range of progressive user-generated content. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TumblrA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Single-Session Interventions Embedded Within Tumblr: Acceptability, Feasibility, and Utility StudyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Tumblr For DummiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Tumblr was a trans technology: the meaning, importance, history, and future of trans technologiesCited 169 times
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📖 Definitions
Noun Alternative letter-case form of Tumblr (“a microblog on Tumblr”).
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Tumblr was a trans technology: the meaning, importance, history, and future of trans technologies
Mapping sociocultural controversies across digital media platforms: one week of #gamergate on Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr
Pro-ana versus Pro-recovery: A Content Analytic Comparison of Social Media Users’ Communication about Eating Disorders on Twitter and Tumblr
Tumbling Into Queer Utopias and Vortexes: Experiences of LGBTQ Social Media Users on Tumblr
Nipples, memes, and algorithmic failure: NSFW critique of Tumblr censorship
Public Health Implications of Image-Based Social Media: A Systematic Review of Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Flickr
Remixing misandry, manspreading, and dick pics: networked feminist humour on Tumblr
An Analysis of Depression, Self-Harm, and Suicidal Ideation Content on Tumblr
🆕 Influential since 2022
Single-Session Interventions Embedded Within Tumblr: Acceptability, Feasibility, and Utility Study
“How deep do I have to cut?“: Non-suicidal self-injury and imagined communities of practice on Tumblr
4chumblr’s divorce: Revisiting the online culture wars through the 2014 Tumblr-4chan raids
‘Tumblr didn’t really give me sex ed, it more gave me like, Queer ed’: how 2SLGBTQ+ people with developmental disabilities use social media for information
Critiquing cultural appropriation, building community: desi online activism on Tumblr shame blogs and #reclaimthebindi
📚 Books worth reading
Tumblr For DummiesSue Jenkins · 2012
TumblrKatrin Tiidenberg, Crystal Abidin · 2021
The last message receivedEmily Trunko · 2017
David Karp and TumblrMonique Vescia · 2013- 📕Little white liesBrianna Baker · 2016
- 📕Make the most of Tumblr and other blogging platformsCathleen Small · 2015
Sams teach yourself Tumblr in 10 minutesBud E. Smith · 2011- 📕Tumbler pornAna Valens · 2020
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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