$29.08
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2021
Summary
Launched in 2007, Tumblr became a safe haven for LGBT youth, social justice movements, and a counseling station for mental health issues. For a decade, this micro-blogging platform had more users than either Twitter or Snapchat, but it remained an obscure subculture for nonusers.
Katrin Tiidenberg, Natalie Ann Hendry, and Crystal Abidin offer the first systematic guide to Tumblr and its crucial role in shaping internet culture. Drawing on a decade of qualitative data, they trace the p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509541096 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1509541098 |
| Author: | Katrin Tiidenberg, Natalie Ann Hendry, Crystal Abidin |
| Publisher: | Polity Press |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 147mm x 208mm |
| Series: | Digital Media and Society |
Critics Review
“The book absolutely delivers on this premise, serving as an excellent primer for the uninitiated, while carrying out a useful analysis of its sociotechnical features that allows one to position tumblr within its historic role in the social media platforms landscape alongside the more popular Facebook and Twitter. … Through flowing writing, humorous anecdotes, and extensive signposting, the authors constantly unpack yet another aspect of the platform, often grounding it in specific spaces and/or periods, yet without losing sense of the broader picture. … It is a timely, interesting, and profoundly enjoyable volume on an object which is oft overlooked in platform and social media research yet has great bearings on both fields.”
Internet Histories
Katrin Tiidenberg
Katrin Tiidenberg is Professor of Participatory Culture at Tallinn University.
Natalie Ann Hendry is Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre and School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
Crystal Abidin is Associate Professor of Internet Studies, Principal Research Fellow, and ARC DECRA Fellow at Curtin University.
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