To provide a picture of so-called passive or casual fans, I illustrated a fan huddled in her comforters while browsing fanworks. There are floating screenshots of the Tumblr, Archive of Our Own, and Fanfiction.Net homepages in the background, since these websites are three of the most visited fanwork archives. In relation to the second rule, the third rule on the seventh page says, “You don’t have to be like everybody else.” I started the passage with the statement, “Being in a group is not the same
Since the 1990s, the internet has been gaining momentum, growing in popularity and relevance in today’s society. As a result, social media has been on the rise for communication, news, and entertainment, appealing to a wide range of ages and demographics. However, this increased use has also increased challenges to privacy, policy making, and ethics within the government. More recently, the Supreme Court addressed the relationship and challenges between the First Amendment and social media in 2015
The Positive Effects of Tumblr on Teen Culture Teenagers use social media for many different reasons. They use it to feel deemed worthy by their peers, to post personal opinions, and to share their daily life. They spend more time with their phones, laptops, iPads, etc. than they do with their family, friends, boyfriends and girlfriends. Tumblr is a popular blogging website/app that has gained popularity in the last few years. Tumblr has a positive effect on teen culture because unlike Facebook
your niche, it is hard to beat Twitter. #19 Tumblr Tumblr receives over 300 million visitors per month and is the most underrated social media platform for businesses. There are many unique niches represented on Tumblr and many businesses that have been created from Tumblr followings. You should check to see if your niche is represented well on the site. If your blog caters to younger visitors, Tumblr might just be the platform for you as Tumblr users ages 18-34 account for 41% of customer visitors
Women's Body”). However, society can influence a woman's body image through media representations. Tumblr and Instagram are two types of social media that are widely used today and both are concerned with posting pictures. People will post pictures of anything from the outfits that they are wearing to photographs of laying beach side. With approximately 90 million blogs and 89 million new posts every day. Tumblr users are exposed to a large amount of pictures. Users can reblog the pictures and posts they
Social media is defined as websites and applications (app) that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. (Google) Instagram, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Snapchat are just a few of the thousands of social media sites that are used all over the world. Social media are computer mediated technologies that uses Web 2.0 internet based applications that allow the creating and sharing of ideas, thoughts, information, and forms
exponentially in popularity. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Google+ are allowing people to connect over common interests and share ideas. Although social media creates a community of millions of people, it allows us new opportunities to manipulate others by allowing people to view us as we want to be viewed, sharing information quickly (whether it is true or not), and by staying in constant communication with those around us. Social media creates communities. On websites such as Tumblr, people
being made about both students and faculty. When I started using Tumblr in November of 2012, I realized that it too has a similar feature in which people could choose to send messages to others anonymously. This feature was abused by users on Tumblr the same way that it was abused on the Yik Yak app. Because this anonymity is the driving force behind the popularity of Yik Yak, I found it easier to remove from my daily life than Tumblr, where there are other more important aspects to focus on. Interpretation
Journal, reports that 66% of Tumblr users are under 35 years old, while 39% are under the age of 25. Costill also noted that 13% of 18-to-29 year olds have used the social media platform (Costill).These statistics prove how common and thus influential Tumblr is amongst young adults. Tumblr is a social media website and application that allows users to make their own personal blog with posts consisting of text, pictures, and videos. One of the main reasons that Tumblr is so prominent amongst young
on Instagram are teens and young adults, your next consumer base. While the older generations will stay loyal to Facebook, many of the younger generations are flocking to Instagram and staying there. Visual content is obviously gaining immense popularity and influence in the entire realm of social media. The majority of users of Pinterest are teens and young adults. The users of these visual forms of social media is the future community of consumers. Even with the versatile features, Facebook recognized