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A Tumblr Scholarly Bibliography 

An In-progress Scholarly Bibliography of major scholarly publications about tumblr, from the early years through 2020. This list includes MA/PhD theses about Tumblr, which follows the list of published journal articles and chapters. This bibliography will be regularly updated. If you’re a tumblr scholar and we haven’t listed your work, please message us!!

 

Notes: The scholarly works here are those published in peer-reviewed journals or those
written by scholars in public forums. The following compilation represents most of the
major scholarly articles about Tumblr that have been published through 2020, especially
in communication/media studies fields, as well as MA and PhD theses. More scholarship
will continually be added, including more book chapters and journals. The essays in a
tumblr book are not yet listed here (please see instead the link to the book on out blog).
Journal articles have been compiled first, with MA/PhD theses below them. Most MA/PhD
theses listed here have links to their full text PDF’s. Articles listed as “open access” have
links that contain full PDF’s of the articles. Other articles are behind pay walls but can be
accessed through universities and often public libraries. If you don’t have access to
these resources, please message us and we can usually send you a copy. Some early
articles that have been widely influential are indicated as such.

Click sectioned button to jump to categories:  

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  1. Books (about Tumblr or featuring Tumblr)

  2. Selected Book Chapters

  3. Selected Journal Articles & Scholarly Resource

  4. MA/PhD Theses and Dissertations that focus on or include Tumblr, 2014-2020

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Books (about Tumblr or featuring Tumblr)

 

Bailey, Moya. Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance. New York: NYU Press, 2021.

 

Kanai, Akane. Gender and relatability in digital culture: Managing affect, intimacy and value. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 

 

Stein, Louisa. Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015: 155. 

 

Tiidenberg, Katrin, Natalie Ann Hendry and Crystal Abidin, eds. Tumblr. London: Polity Press. 2021.

 

Tiidenberg, Katrin. Selfies, Why We Love (and Hate) Them. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2018.

 

Vescia, Monique. David Karp and Tumblr. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2013. 

 

Selected Book Chapters

 

Allaste, Airi-Alina and Katrin Tiidenberg. “Sexy Selfies of the Transitioning Self.” Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations, ed. Dan Woodman and Andy Bennett. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

 

Cho, Alexander. “Disruptive Joy: #BlackOutDay’s Affirmative Resonances,”In A Networked Self and Love. Ed. Zizi Papacharissi. New York: Routledge. 2018. 

  • Open Access

 

Cho, Alexander. “Queer Reverb: Tumblr, Affect, Time.” Networked Affect, ed. Ken Hillis, Susanna Paasonen, and Michael Petit. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. 43– 58. 

 

Hendry, Natalie A., Brady Robards, and Sonya Stanford. “Beyond Social Media Panics for ‘At Risk’ Youth in Mental Health Practice.” Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Mental Health Policy and Practice, ed. Sonya Stanford, Elaine Sharland, Nina Rovinelli Heller, and Joanne Warner. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017: 135– 54.

 

McGlotten, Shaka. “Porn Fast.” in  I Confess, ed. Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo. Montreal: McGill University Press, 2018.

 

Paasonen, Susanna, K. Jarret, and B. Light. Not Safe for Work: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. October 2019. 

 

Selected Journal Articles & Scholarly Resources

 

Allaste, Airi-Alina and Katrin Tiidenberg. “Sexy Selfies of the Transitioning Self.” Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations, ed. Dan Woodman and Andy Bennett. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

 

AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers) Ethics Working Committee. “Ethical Decision- Making and Internet Research 2.0.” December 2012. 

 

Bailey, Moya and Trudy. “On Misogynoir: Citation, Erasure, and Plagiarism.” Feminist Media Studies. March 13, 2018. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1447395. 

 

Birnholtz, Jeremy, Ashley Kraus, Weiwei Zheng, David A. Moskowitz, Kathryn Macapagal, and Darren Gergle. “Sensitive Sharing on Social Media: Exploring Willingness to Expose PrEP Usage Among Adolescent Males Who Have Sex With Males.” Social Media & Society. September 30, 2020. 

  • Open access 

 

Burgess, Jean, Elija Cassidy, Stefanie Duguay, and Ben Light. “Making Digital Cultures of Gender and Sexuality With Social Media.” Social Media & Society. October 7, 2016. 

  • Open access 

 

Chang, Yi and Lei Tang, Yoshiyuki Inagaki, and Yan Liu. “What Is Tumblr: A Statistical Overview and Comparison.” ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter 16, no. 1 (2014): 21– 29.

 

Cho, Alexander.  “Default Publicness: Queer Youth of Color, Social Media, and Being Outed by the Machine.” New Media & Society. December 12, 2017. 

  • open access

 

Cho, Alexander. “Queer Reverb: Tumblr, Affect, Time.” Networked Affect, ed. Ken Hillis, Susanna Paasonen, and Michael Petit. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. 43– 58. 

 

Christian, Aymar Jean, Faithe Day, Mark Diaz, and Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin. “Platforming Intersectionality: Networked Solidarity and the Limits of Corporate Social Media.” Social Media & Society. August 27, 2020. 

  • Open access

 

Clark-Parsons, Rosemary and Jessa Lingel. “Margins as Methods, Margins as Ethics: A Feminist Framework for Studying Online Alterity.” Social Media & Society. March 23, 2020.

  • Open access

 

Dame, Avery. “Making a Name for Yourself: Tagging as Transgender Ontological Practice on Tumblr.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 33, no. 1 (2016): 23– 37. 

  • Influential article

 

Dhoest, Alexander and Lukasz Szulc. “Navigating Online Selves: Social, Cultural, and Material Contexts of Social media Use by Disaporic Gay Men.” Social Media & Society. October 7, 2016. 

  • Open access

 

Duguary, Stefany. “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer Visibility Through Selifes: Comparing Platform Mediators Across Ruby Rose’s Instagram and Vine Presence.” Social Media & Society. April 7, 2016. 

  • Open access

 

Edwards, Emory James and Tom Boellstorff. “Migration, non-use, and the ‘Tumblrpocalypse’: Towards a unified theory of digital exodus.” Media, Culture & Society. November 4, 2020. 

  • Not open access

 

Eppink, Jason. “A Brief History of the GIF (So Far).” Journal of Visual Culture. 13, no. 3. 2014: 300. 

 

Eschler, Jordan and Amanda Menking. “‘No Prejudice Here’: Examining Social Identity Work in Starter Pack Memes.” Social Media & Society. April 20, 2018. 

  • Open access

 

“Ethics in Digital Research.” Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection, ed. Uwe Flick. London: Sage, 2018.

 

Fink, Marty and Quinn Miller. “Trans Media Moments: Tumblr 2011-2013.” Television & New Media. October 23, 2013. 

  • Not open access (message us for a copy!)

  • Influential article

 

Gonzalez-Polledo, Elena. “Chronic Media Worlds: Social Media and the Problem of Pain Communication on Tumblr.” Social Media & Society. February 16, 2016. 

  • Open access

  • Influential article

 

Gonzalez-Polledo, Elena and Jen Tarr. “The thing about pain: The remaking of illness narratives in chronic pain expressions on social media.” New Media & Society. November 20, 2014.

  • Not open access

  • Influential article

 

Gursimsek, Odul Akyapi. “Animated GIFs as vernacular graphic design: producing Tumblr blogs.” Visual Communication. June 30, 2016. 

  • Not open access

 

Haimson, Oliver L. “Challenging ‘Getting Better’ Social Media Narratives With Intersectional Transgender Lived Experiences.” Social Media & Society. March 9, 2020. 

  • Open access

 

Haimson, Oliver L., Avery Dame-Griff, Elias Capello, and Zachari Richter, “Tumblr Was a Trans Technology: The Meaning, Importance, History, and Future of Trans Technologies.” Feminist Media Studies. October 19, 2019. 

 

Hanckel, Benjamin and Alan Morris. “Finding Community and Contesting Heteronormativity: Queer Young People’s Engagement in an Australian Online Community.” Journal of Youth Studies 17, no. 7. 2014: 872– 86. DOI:10.1080/13676261.2013.878792

 

Hart, Matt. “Youth Intimacy on Tumblr: A Pilot Study.” Young.  23, no. 3 (2015): 193– 208. DOI: 10.1177/1103308815577878

 

Hendry, Natalie A. “Young Womens’ Mental Illness and (In-)visible Social Media Practices of Control and Emotional Recognition.” Social Media & Society, October 22, 2020. 

  • Open access

  • Influential article

 

Hillman, Serena, Jason Procyk, and Carman Neustaedter. “‘alksjdf;lksfd’: Tumblr and the Fandom User Experience.” Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Association for Computing Machinery, June 21– 25, 2014. 

 

Hillman, Serena and Jason Procyk, and Carman Neustaedter. “Tumblr Fandoms, Community & Culture.” Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. 2014: 285- 288. 

  • Open access

  • Influential article

 

Jackson, Sarah J,  Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles. “#GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online.” New Media & Society. June 9, 2017. 

  • Not open access

 

Jacob, Nina, Rhiannon Evans, and Jonathan Scourfield. “The Influence of Online Images on Self- harm: A Qualitative Study of Young People Aged 16– 24.” Journal of Adolescence. no. 60 2017: 140– 47. 

 

Kanai, Akane. “On not taking the self seriously: Resilience, relatability and humour in young women’s Tumblr blogs.” European Journal of Cultural Studies. August 31, 2017.

 

Kanai, Akane. “Sociality and Classification: Reading Gender, Race, and Class in a Humorous Meme.” Social Media + Society. 2, no. 4. 2016.

 

Keller, Jessalyn. “‘Oh, She’s a Tumblr Feminist’: Exploring the Platform Vernacular of Girls’ Social Media Feminisms.” Social Media & Society. August 14, 2019. 

  • Open access

 

Kohen, Ari. “Tumbling Political Theory.” Politics. March 31, 2014. 

  • Not open access

 

Korobkova, Ksenia A. Schooling the Directioners: Connected Learning and Identity-Making in the One Direction Fandom. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, 2014.

 

Kunert, Jessica. “The Footy Girls of Tumblr: How Women Found Their Niche in the Online Football Fandom.” Communication & Sport. July 4, 2019.

  • Open access

 

Lenhart, Amanda. “Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015.” Pew Research. April 9, 2015.  

 

Maddox, Jessica and Jennifer Malson. “Guidelines Without Lines, Communities Without Borders: The Marketplace of Ideas and Digital Manifest Destiny in Social Media Platform Policies.” Social Media & Society. June 19, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2056305120926622

  • Open access

 

Markham, Annette. “Fabrication as Ethical Practice.” Information, Communication, and Society 15, no. 3 (2012).

Markham, Annette and Elizabeth Buchanan. “Ethical Decision- Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AOIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0).” Association of Internet Researchers. (2012). 

 

Martson, Kate. “Researching LGBT+ Youth Intimacies and Social Media: The Strengths and Limitations of Participant-Led Visual Methods.” Qualitative Inquiry. January 22, 2019. 

 

Massanari, Adrienne and Shira Chess. “Attack of the 50- Foot Social Justice Warrior: The Discursive Construction of SJW Memes as the Monstrous Feminine.” Feminist Media Studies. 2018: 1– 18. 

 

McCracken, Allison. “Tumblr Youth Subcultures and Media Engagement.” Cinema Journal 57, no. 1 (Fall 2017): 151– 56. ​

 

Mendes, Kaitlynn, Jessalynn Keller, and Jessica Ringrose. “Digitized narratives of sexual violence: Making sexual violence felt and known through digital disclosures.” New Media & Society. December 29, 2018. 

  • Open access

 

Meyer, Michele. “The Impact of Social Media on Non-Monosexuals’ Responses to Discrimination: A Co-Cultural Approach.” Social Media & Society. March 18, 2019. 

  • Open access

  

Miltner, Kate M. and Tim Highfield. “Never Gonna GIF You Up: Analyzing the Cultural Significance of the Animated GIF.” Social Media and Society. 3, no. 3. August 17, 2017. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305117725223

  • Open access

 

Morimoto, Lori and Louisa Ellen Stein, eds. “Tumblr and Fandom,” special issue, Transformative Works & Cultures, no. 27 (2018).

  • Open access

 

Neill-Hoch, Indira. “Russian Internet Research Agency Disinformation Activities on Tumblr: Identity, Privacy, and Ambivalence.” Social Media & Society. October 22, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2056305120961783

  • Open access

 

Oakley, Abigail. “Disturbing Hegemonic Discourse: Nonbinary Gender and Sexual Orientation Labeling on Tumblr.” Social Media & Society. 2, no. 3. 2016.

  • Open Access

 

Paasonen, Susanna. “The Dick Pic: Harassment, Curation and Desire.” Social Media & Society. April 3, 2019. 

  • Open access

 

Pennington, Rosemary. “Social media as third spaces? Exploring Muslim identity and connection in Tumblr.” International Communication Gazette. October 26, 2018. 

  • Not open access

 

Pennington, Rosemary. “Witnessing the 2014 Gaza War in Tumblr.” International Communication Gazette. January 25, 2019. 

  • Not open access

 

Pilipets, Elena. “From Netflix Streaming to Netflix and Chill: The (Dis)Connected Body of Serial Binge-Viewer.” Social Media & Society. November 26, 2019. 

  • Open access

 

Renninger, Bryce J. “‘Where I Can Be Myself, Where I Can Speak My Mind’: Networked Counterpublics in a Polymedia Environment.” New Media & Society. 17, no. 9 (2014): 1513– 29.

  • Influential article

 

Rose, Sara Marita. “There Is a Conversation in My Search: Differing Uses for Tags.” International BOBCATSSS Conference Proceedings. From Collections to Connections: Turning Libraries “Inside- out.” Ankara, Turkey: Hacettepe University Department of Information Management (2013): 28– 31.

 

Schwarz, Kaylan C. and Lisa Ann Richey. “Humanitarian humor, digilantism, and the dilemmas of representing volunteer tourism on social media.” New Media & Society. April 3, 2019. 

  • Not open access

 

Seko, Yukari and Stephen Lewis. “The Self-Harmed, Visualized, and Reblogged: Remaking of Self- Injury Narratives on Tumblr.” New Media & Society. 2016: 1– 9. 

 

Sensis. “Sensis Social Media Report May 2015.” 2015. 

 

Southerton, Clare, Daniel Marshall, and Peter Aggleton. “Restricted modes: Social media, content classification and LGBTQ sexual citizenship.” New Media & Society. February 13, 2020.

  • Not open access

 

Tiidenberg, Katrin. “Boundaries and conflicts in a NSFW community on Tumblr: the meanings and uses of selfies.” New Media & Society. January 14, 2015. 

  • Not open access

 

Tiidenberg, Katrin. “Bringing Sexy Back: Reclaiming the Body Aesthetic via Self-Shooting.” Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace. 8, no. 1 (2014). 

 

Tiidenberg, Katrin. “Ethics in Digital Research.” Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection, ed. Uwe Flick. London: Safe Publications Ltd, 2017.

 

Tiidenberg, Katrin. “‘Nude Selfies til I Die’— Making of ‘Sexy’ in Selfies.” Sex in the Digital Age ed. P. G. Nixon and Isabel Düsterhöft. London: Routledge, 2017.

 

Tiidenberg, Katrin. “There’s No Limit to Your Love– Scripting the Polyamorous Self.” Journal für Psychologie. 22, no. 1. 2014: 1– 27. 

 

Tiidenberg, Katrin and Edgar Gómez Cruz. “Selfies, Image and the Re-Making of the Body.” Body & Society. 21, no. 4 (2015): 77– 102.

 

van der Nagel, Emily. “Fluids on Pictures on Screens: Pseudonymous Affect on Reddit’s TributeMe.” Social Media & Society. February 21, 2018. 

  • Open access

 

Wargo, Jon M. “#Donttagyourhate: Reading, Collecting, and Curating as Genres of Participation in LGBT Youth Activism On Tumblr.” Digital Culture & Education 9, no. 1. 2017: 14– 30.

 

Wargo, Jon M. “‘Every selfie tells a story…’ LGBTQ youth livestreams and new media narratives as connective identity texts.” New Media & Society. October 23, 2015. 

  • Not open access

 

Wild, Nickie Michaud. “The active defense of fanfiction writing: Sherlock fans’ metatextual response.” European Journal of Cultural Studies. August 29, 2018. 

  • Not open access


 

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MA/PhD Theses and Dissertations
Books
Selected Book Chapters
Selected Journal Articles

Scholarly Bib.

MA/PhD Theses and Dissertations that focus on or include Tumblr, 2014-2020

(*Most entries link to a full text PDF)

 

Alrajebah, Nora. 2018. Investigating cascades in social networks: Structural and temporal aspects. Order No. 13855342, University of Southampton (United Kingdom). In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, University of Southampton

  • Full text unavailable online

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Aupperle, Anna. 2014. From 'teenage dream' to collective reality: Participatory online fandom communities, social activism, and the media spectacle. Order No. 1560065, Temple University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Temple University

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Bellamy, Shahan D. "“Tumblr Saved My Life”: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of how Black Trans-Masculinity Operates through Tumblr." Order No. 27960469, Arizona State University, 2020. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

  • PhD, Arizona State University

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Booten, Kyle Paul. 2017. A library of fragments: Digital quotations, new literacies, and attention on social media. Order No. 10281651, University of California, Berkeley. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley

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Bolden, Sarah E. 2018. Unsettling boundaries: (pre-)digital fat activism, fatphobia, and enclave ambivalence. Order No. 10822440, Syracuse University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Syracuse University

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Brown, Warren. 2012. Out of many one people: Telling the stories of Jamaican gay men and their move to Canada. Order No. MR86271, Royal Roads University (Canada). In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Royal Roads University

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Bridges, Judith C. 2019. Gender, race, class, and body: Metapragmatic disputes of linguistic authority and ideologies on twitter, reddit, and tumblr. Order No. 13904397, University of South Florida. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, University of South Florida

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Burton, Dorian Orlando, Sr. 2017. Do social networking sites influence Christian marriages? Order No. 10639652, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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Burton, Julian. Making Space on the Digital Margin: Youth Fandom Communities on Tumblr as Spaces for Making the Self and Re- Making Society. Rutgers University. 2017.

  • PhD, Rutgers University 

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Brewer, Robin Nicole. 2017. Understanding and developing interactive voice response systems to support online engagement of older adults. Order No. 10603427, Northwestern University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, Northwestern University

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Carey, Maria Helena. 2014. My little brony project: Tolerance is magic. Order No. 1556475, Corcoran College of Art + Design. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Corcoran College of Art + Design

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Carpenter, Sarah G. 2020. With/In limits: Play as practice in the digital vernacular. Order No. 27740028, George Mason University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, George Mason University

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China, Addie L. Sayers. 2018. Beyoncé as a semiotic resource: Visual and linguistic meaning making and gender in twitter, tumblr, and pinterest. Order No. 10787866, University of South Florida. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, University of South Florida

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Coleman, Stefani. 2017. Digital galleries: A question of viability for supplemental internet-based interventions. Order No. 10621608, Notre Dame de Namur University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Notre Dame de Namur University

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Collins, Lyndsey S. 2015. A content analysis of the "women against feminism" tumblr page. Order No. 1592929, Lehigh University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Lehigh University

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Cone, Heather Ann. 2016. Differential reinforcement in the online radicalization of western muslim women converts. Order No. 10240546, Walden University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, Walden University

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Coscia, Alana. 2019. Understanding the impact of pro-ana and pro-mia tumblr: Using the explanatory lens of normative discontent. Order No. 13419729, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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Cosper, Caitlin A. 2019. "No.. like you don't get it": The functionality of conflict speech and the construction of the young adult feminist identity on tumblr. Order No. 13882118, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Cugno, Gail E. 2015. Factors that enable or inhibit dissertation completion. Order No. 3718043, The Claremont Graduate University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, The Claremont Graduate University

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Cullen, Amanda Lynn Lawson. 2014. Positive spaces: An ethnographic assessment of the influence of the internet on LGBT identity. Order No. 1564634, The University of West Florida. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, The University of West Florida

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Crow, Teahlyn Frances. 2019. K-pop, language, and online fandom: An exploration of korean language use and performativity amongst international K-pop fans. Order No. 13883641, Northern Arizona University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Northern Arizona University

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Dame, Avery Phelan. 2017. Talk amongst yourselves: 'community' in transgender counterpublic discourse online, 1990-2014. Order No. 10269894, University of Maryland, College Park. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Full text unavailable online

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Davis, Jade Elizabeth. 2015. Historical glitch: Understanding digital media through the photographic lens. Order No. 3719738, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Dare-Edwards, Helena. 2015. Interrogating tweendom online: 'fangirl as pathology', gender/age, and icarly fandom. Order No. 10293600, University of East Anglia (United Kingdom). In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, University of East Anglia

  • Full text unavailable online

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DeLuca, Katherine M. 2015. Developing a digital 0RW1S34RfeSDcfkexd09rT2paideia1RW1S34RfeSDcfkexd09rT2: Composing identities and engaging rhetorically in the digital age. Order No. 28036856, The Ohio State University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, The Ohio State University

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DeMeo, Elizabeth. 2016. Fandom and social media marketing looking at "doctor who" tumblr engagement through the lens of participatory culture. Order No. 10111225, Liberty University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Liberty University

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Deshane, Evelyn. 2013. Flesh made real: The production, reception, and interpretation of transgender narratives. Order No. MR87308, Trent University (Canada). In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Trent University

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Ding, Zhao. 2015. The internet meme as a rhetoric discourse: Investigating Asian/Asian americans' identity negotiation. Order No. 1592204, Bowling Green State University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Bowling Green State University

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DiZio, Jennifer Katherine. 2017. Digital writing in the academy: Gains, losses, and rigorous playfulness. Order No. 10280532, University of California, Berkeley. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley

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Feuston, Jessica L. 2020. Caring together: A digital ethnography of how people with mental illness participate online. Order No. 28092354, Northwestern University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, Northwestern University

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Gaines, Kearisten N. 2019. To disclose or not to disclose: A quantitative study examining perceptions of therapists' mental health self-disclosure in biographies. Order No. 10977293, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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Garcia, Yanais. 2020. Twitter, tumblr, and terrorist: How terrorists advanced through the use of cyberspace. Order No. 28093880, Utica College. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MS, Utica College

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Gay, Kristen N. 2013. Unbearable weight, unbearable witness: The (im)possibility of witnessing eating disorders in cyberspace. Order No. 1543041, University of South Florida. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, University of South Florida

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Goodridge, Tyler. 2016. Disrupting the status quo: A case study of digital mobilization & awareness within black lives matter. Order No. 10106980, Georgetown University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, Georgetown University

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Goodrich, Amanda. 2016. Sexual preference: Does it need a label? A discursive analysis of the 'LGBTQ' signifier. Order No. 10147596, University of Nebraska at Omaha. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, University of Nebraska at Omaha

 

Glubok, Brian Pearce. 2020. Understanding digital political communities: A juxtapolitical approach to intimacy online. Order No. 27962801, University of California, Merced. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, University of California, Merced

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Gutenson, Leah DiNatale. 2017. The politics of blogging: Identity, access, and composition. Order No. 10602752, The University of Alabama. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

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Grant, Harley. Tumblinguistics: Innovation and Variation in New Forms of Written CMC. University of Glasgow, 2015.

  • MA, University of Glasgow

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Greene, Justin Russell. 2018. I am an author: Performing authorship in literary culture. Order No. 10815916, Virginia Commonwealth University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Full text unavailable online

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Haimson, Oliver Lee. 2018. The social complexities of transgender identity disclosure on social media. Order No. 10787016, University of California, Irvine. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, University of California, Irvine

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Harris, Christopher Paul. 2019. Political acts, generational minds: Race, culture, and the politics of the wake. Order No. 22588043, The New School. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, The New School

  • Full text unavailable online

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He, Sijia. 2018. Designing and evaluating personalized lifestyle blog using wordpress. Order No. 10829028, Iowa State University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MFA, Iowa State University

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Hendry, Natalie. Everyday Anxieties: Young Women, Mental Illness and Social Media Practices of Visibility and Connection. Melbourne: RMIT University, 2017. 

  • PhD, RMIT University

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Henze, Kimberley M. 2017. Interfacing femininities: Performance, critique, and the events of photography in amalia ulman's 0RW1S34RfeSDcfkexd09rT2excellences & perfections1RW1S34RfeSDcfkexd09rT2. Order No. 10267795, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MA, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Humphrey, Michael. 2017. The working narrative: Analysis of linguistic structures and styles in life storytelling on social media. Order No. 10604857, Colorado State University. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • PhD, Colorado State University

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Isaacs, Jessica L. 2017. The usefulness of social media as a means to promote healthful beverage choices among households enrolled in the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Order No. 10634126, University of Nevada, Reno. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MS, University of Nevada, Reno

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Jethwani, Anisha. 2015. How to be Indian: A tumblr experiment. Order No. 27807928, University of Southern California. In PROQUESTMS ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 

  • MFA, University of Southern California

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