Tumblr-ing into identity : re-blogging bodies on Tumblr

This paper discusses how Tumblr as a micro-blogging site facilitates an understanding of the body in a postmodern world. Specifically, how re-blogging can be seen as a narrative process for bloggers in their expression and communication of identity and self. The body is found to be heavily sexualize...

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Main Author:	Yong, Noelle Poh Teng
Other Authors:	School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format:	Final Year Project
Language:	English
Published:	2014
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Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55806
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-558062019-12-10T14:52:43Z Tumblr-ing into identity : re-blogging bodies on Tumblr Yong, Noelle Poh Teng School of Humanities and Social Sciences Assoc Prof James Patrick Williams DRNTU::Humanities This paper discusses how Tumblr as a micro-blogging site facilitates an understanding of the body in a postmodern world. Specifically, how re-blogging can be seen as a narrative process for bloggers in their expression and communication of identity and self. The body is found to be heavily sexualized across the 6 Tumblrs sampled for this paper. In addition, the discussion will also revolve around bodies with tattoos and of those that embody fitness and health. The body is framed as signifying postmodernism and the theory of postmodernism will link the concepts of body and also how individuals engage with new social media (Tumblr) in today’s world. Bachelor of Arts 2014-03-31T09:27:03Z 2014-03-31T09:27:03Z 2014 2014 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55806 en Nanyang Technological University 29 p. application/pdf
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description	This paper discusses how Tumblr as a micro-blogging site facilitates an understanding of the body in a postmodern world. Specifically, how re-blogging can be seen as a narrative process for bloggers in their expression and communication of identity and self. The body is found to be heavily sexualized across the 6 Tumblrs sampled for this paper. In addition, the discussion will also revolve around bodies with tattoos and of those that embody fitness and health. The body is framed as signifying postmodernism and the theory of postmodernism will link the concepts of body and also how individuals engage with new social media (Tumblr) in today’s world.
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title	Tumblr-ing into identity : re-blogging bodies on Tumblr
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Tumblr-ing into identity : re-blogging bodies on Tumblr

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