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Tumblr fandoms, community & culture

Published: 15 February 2014 Publication History

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A growing trend is the participation in online fandom communities through the support of the blogging platform Tumblr. We investigated Tumblr fandom users' motivations behind participating in fandoms, and how they interacted within the Tumblr community. Our results show that fandom users feel their Tumblr experience is "always-on" where they participate at nearly any point in the day. They have also adopted a unique set of jargon and use of animated GIFs to match their desired fandom activities. Overall, our results show that Tumblr fandom users present a unique culture, much different from other social networking sites.

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CSCW Companion '14: Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
February 2014
372 pages
ISBN:9781450325417
DOI:10.1145/2556420
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  1. community
  2. culture
  3. fandoms
  4. fanfiction
  5. social networking
  6. tumblr

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