Migration, non-use, and the ‘Tumblrpocalypse’
Towards a unified theory of digital exodus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11268942 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emory James Edwards (0000-0003-1147-8504, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author), T Boellstorff (0000-0002-8580-3747, University of California, Irvine) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 582-592 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443720968461 |
| OpenAlex | W3096469432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 13 |
In this article, we use what we provisionally term the ‘2018 Tumblr migration’ to explore how (1) platform ‘non-use’ and (2) platform ‘migration’ are overlapping aspects of a broader phenomenon of digital ‘leaving’ or exodus. A unified analysis of this phenomenon has important consequences for understanding emergent relationships between individual agency, platform structure, and online culture. The sociotechnical practices of leaving resulting from the 2018 Tumblr adult content ban link up to fundamental questions around movement, selfhood, and power. We discuss non-use as an overlapping and interacting set of social decisions largely (and perhaps unsurprisingly) disincentivized by the technical affordances of the platform, as well as migration as a shifting and reconfiguring of platform specific social relations. Placing classic questions of social theory in conversation with scholarship on platform socialities, we explore the 2018 Tumblr purge/migration to elucidate the polyvalent technical and social actions involved in ‘leaving’
Affordance · Agency (philosophy · Conversation · Epistemology · Human–computer interaction · Knowledge management · Phenomenon · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Structure and agency · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Sharing Economy and Platforms
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |