Russian Internet Research Agency Disinformation Activities on Tumblr
Identity, Privacy, and Ambivalence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2414220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Indira Neill Hoch (0000-0002-5546-1539, Concordia College - Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Media + Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2056-3051 • E-ISSN: 2056-3051 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2056305120961783 |
| OpenAlex | W3094519995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
On 24 March 2018, Tumblr terminated 84 user accounts identified as being 'linked to Internet Research Agency or IRA (a group closely tied to the Russian government) posing as members of the Tumblr community.' In response, Tumblr deleted the blogs and accounts of these 84 users but allowed reblogs of their posts to continue to circulate openly on the platform. Through a case study of posts originating with one IRA account, Lagonegirl, and qualitative interviews with 13 Tumblr users, this article considers the platform conventions and social norms that were utilized by the Lagonegirl account to facilitate its distribution of disinformation. Posing as a Black woman concerned with social justice but also sharing humorous posts that resonated with Millennials, Lagonegirl's performance shows overlap with existing work on 'Left Troll' IRA Twitter accounts while demonstrating platform specificity in the construction of posts
Ambivalence · Disinformation · Internet privacy · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Social media · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Multimodality and Genre
Analyzing the Digital Traces of Political Manipulation
From the Blackhand Side
The ambivalent Internet
A Tumblr Book
Affordance, conventions, and design
Automating power
Algorithms, bots, and political communication in the US 2016 election
Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin’
Trans Media Moments
Animated GIFs as vernacular graphic design
New methods for studying visual communication and multimodal integration
The best friend, the boyfriend, other girls, hot guys, and creeps
The thing about pain
Default publicness
Networked privacy
Hazing as a Process of Boundary Maintenance in an Online Community
It takes a village to manipulate the media
Disinformation as a Threat to Deliberative Democracy
Disinformation as Political Communication
Troll Factories
I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately
On misogynoir
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |