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{"id":274,"date":"2017-09-11T03:34:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T07:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hannahmlukow.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2017-09-11T03:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T07:34:07","slug":"cyber-community-and-tumblr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/2017\/09\/11\/cyber-community-and-tumblr\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber-Community and Tumblr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embarrassingly, I owe my formative political education to a website called Tumblr dot com. Although I created my Tumblr in high school for the sole purpose of reblogging random lifestyle imagery, I eventually encountered folks who were really angry about injustices, so-called Social Justice Warriors, or SJWs (although this term now seems to be used almost exclusively by alt-right bullies). A few months into my engagement with radical bloggers, I became skeptical and distrustful of my teachers, parents, and community. Given the conversations I was involved in through my cyber-community, the people in my local community seemed unenlightened and uninitiated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tumblr-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/embed.tumblr.com\/embed\/post\/vAqgmP8BTFdZxoTUCkZDaw\/154467026511\" data-did=\"5a0d16bf1ff805b977fe5010f5e77d2afe3fffa6\"  ><a href=\"http:\/\/ibuprofemmme.tumblr.com\/post\/154467026511\/comrade-medicine-bell-hooks-vs-beyonce-is\">http:\/\/ibuprofemmme.tumblr.com\/post\/154467026511\/comrade-medicine-bell-hooks-vs-beyonce-is<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/assets.tumblr.com\/post.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I immediately recognized this experience in Gergen&#8217;s description of how the realities of cyber-communities can destabilize local and communal realities. Gergen explains that &#8220;when the local ceases to hold sway [sic], bonds of communal trust are frayed&#8221; (232). My activity on Tumblr invested me in cyber-communal realities and frayed my trust in local institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Online activist communities are an interesting case study in cyber-community because they should hypothetically diverge from Gergen&#8217;s idea of the &#8220;floating world&#8221; (235). An online activist community is a &#8220;floating world&#8221; in the sense that it is concerned with second- and third-order levels of communication (that is, conversations about ideas\/concepts, and conversations\u00a0<em>about\u00a0<\/em>those conversations); in another sense, however, activist communities should not &#8220;float free&#8221; from the dilemmas of everyday life. The removed, absent, super-local discourse should translate into concrete change-making behaviors in local contexts.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, online activist communities are often criticized for their removal from the issues they aim to address. (How does a Facebook profile frame help protect DACAmented people?) Perhaps, as Gergen claims, cyber-communities inherently decenter the local\/communal, and thus online activist communities will always face a requisite level of estrangement from &#8220;on the ground&#8221; realties. Given that social media and cyber communities are such powerful tools for spreading information and building political alliance, however, I don&#8217;t see activists turning on Tumblr anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Works Cited<\/p>\n<p>Gergen, Kenneth J. &#8220;The challenge of absent presence.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance<\/em>, edited by James E. 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Although I created my Tumblr in high school for the sole purpose of reblogging random lifestyle imagery, I eventually encountered folks who were really angry about injustices, so-called Social Justice Warriors, or SJWs (although this term now seems to be used &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hannahmlukow.com\/uncategorized\/cyber-community-and-tumblr\/\">Continue reading<span> &#8220;Cyber-Community and Tumblr&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[99,100,101],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-c","tag-activism","tag-cyber-community","tag-tumblr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p95kZR-4q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig101-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}