This is the first book to take an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr. 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." 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. It contains work from over 60 contributors and includes more than 90 illustrations and three galleries, honoring Tumblr's identity as a heavily image-based social network. 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.
Online Roundtable on Spreadable Media, by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green, with participants Paul Booth, Kristina Busse, Melissa Click, Sam Ford, Henry Jenkins, Xiaochang Li, and Sharon Ross. Section 1 first published as "Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture," by Louisa Stein, Cinema Journal 53 (3): 152–77. Copyright 2014 by The University of Texas Press. All rights reserved.
This essay explores the relationship between contemporary remix culture and inherited traditions of fan authorship: more specifically, fan-created music videos or “vids” and the practice of vidding. Through the individual and collective process of vidding, fans showcase their own media literacy, educate their viewers about how to read media, and demonstrate how to engage with and speak back to media and culture. Vids model an affective transmedia literacy, a mode of reading that is simultaneously investigative, critical, and engaged.Cet article explore les rapports entre la culture contemporaine du remix et les pratiques de création de fans, et tout particulièrement les « vids », des montages vidéo musicaux créés par des fans. Au moyen de ces processus de création individuels et collectifs de « vids », des fans exposent leur propre « culture médiatique », transmettent aux spectateurs de leurs oeuvres des façons d’observer les médias de manière critique et démontrent comment interagir avec les discours culturels et médiatiques. Les « vids » constituent un modèle d’interaction affective avec les pratiques et la consommation médiatiques, un mode de lecture à la fois investigateur, critique et engagé
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