Cooking time: 35mins Prep: 15mins
Difficulty: easy
Serves: one
Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoons of arrogance
- 1cup of strong opinions
- 200 grams of unnecessary hashtags
- 3 heaped dollops of fandom.
- a handful of insanity.
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix until smooth.
- Place your ridiculous concoction into a baking tray and cook for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
- Allow to cool for five minutes then enjoy….
From social justice warriors and
hardcore feminazis, to the otherkin and headmates, the ridiculousness
that is the Tumblr community continues to shock and surprises me. Throughout
the next few weeks I will be analyzing and interrupting the madness that is Tumblr
in an attempt to better understand the way it ticks.
Dr Victoria Kuttainen (2015)
talked about the different types of power and after studying my social network
I have found that charismatic and democratic power are the most common among
the Tumblr community. The reason for this could be due the creative ability that
Tumblr allows, with minimal censorship regarding the content posted. This
minimal surveillance allows users to express ideas and opinions freely and as a
result you can be admired or criticized by other Tumblr users.
Turkle (1995, p.248 ) mentions online
self-surveillance and Tumblr is no exemption to this. However unlike other social
networking sites you have more control over what people see and the genre that you
will be associated with. Unlike Facebook, Tumblr doesn’t ask for information regarding
where you live, the school you went to and the people you’re related to. On Tumblr
you lose a sense of identity and you are no longer judged on what school you
went to, who you grew up with ect. That being said you are judged on the things
you like the ideas you have and the words you use. That brings the question is
it better to be judged on who you are or by what you like, say and believe?
References:
Turkle, S. (1995). Life
on the screen: Identity in the age of the internet. New
York: Simon & Schuster
Kuttainen Victoria.(2015. BA1002: Our
space: Networks, narratives and the making of place, Lecture 2: Power
[PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au
Image:
Tumblr cake (2012) Retrieved:
http://starmagix.deviantart.com/art/Tumblr-Cake-333327008
To answer your proposed question I believe it is safer to be judged on what you like, say and believe. But these are the essential things that make you who you are. They are what defines you into a genre, they alter the way you project yourself and create your identity as a social media user (Luyn, 2015). Tumblr can remove your name and face but it doesn’t remove who you are as a person. When it comes to Tumblr’s minimal censorship and surveillance there is no sense of real fear for the ever present ‘all seeing eye’ (Kuttainen, 2015). You are still being watched by the other inmates, the small group of guards monitoring the cyber traffic, and you are still a prisoner of the Tumblr panopticon jail designed by Jeremy Bentham in 1787 (Kuttainen, 2015). The question now is do you still have power when you’re an inmate for a social media site?
ReplyDeleteKuttainen, V. (2015). BA1002: Our space: Networks, narratives and the making of place, week 3 notes [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au
Luyn, A. V. (2015). BA1002: Space: Networs, Narratives, and the making of place, week 3 notes [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/bbcswebdav/pid-1892276-dt-content-rid-2691285_1/courses/15-BA1002-TSV-INT-SP2/BA1002%20week%203%20lecture%202015_for%20LearnJCU%20notes.pdf