[ SECRET POST #3358 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3358 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 093 secrets from Secret Submission Post #480.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Academia question

[(Anonymous)]

I would say no. It's proper academic practice to give the source by URL so whoever reads it can look it up, as if you didn't do that it could very well be something you made up to support your point.

I would just find another source myself if you're unwilling to reveal your Tumblr handle (which I would be myself. My academic peers doesn't need to know all about my fannish interests!)

Re: Academia question

[ketita]

Of course the issue with tumblr research is that while I'll write "accessed xx/xx/xx", who knows how long the posts will remain up... maybe I should save copies for posterity and my own reference. Are tumblr addresses even stable? Wouldn't they change if somebody changes the username, or would it still link back?

(haha, the first half of my paper is going to be about how trying to do research on tumblr is a shitshow)

Re: Academia question

[(Anonymous)]

Save copies, or at least screenshots.

I can see how Tumblr is awful as a research platform with the rate a lot of people changes their names. That can be a solution for you though, if you change your name for a little while, source it to that name and then change back later. (Which isn't very ethical imo, but a solution)

Re: Academia question

[ketita]

Heh, that's a clever solution. It's probably best to just skip the chicanery and be as direct as I can, though. My academic standing is important to me, and I have some vague hopes about presenting this paper at a conference, too.

It's not just the name changes - it's the lack of a central hub to function as a community, the lack of any kind of coherent archiving, and the lack of community "borders" or "members" of any sort. Combine that with the INSANELY high traffic on tags, and I think that it would be almost impossible for someone outside of a specific tumblr fandom to actually do any meaningful research on it without interviewing members left and right.

Re: Academia question

[(Anonymous)]

If it's something you want to present to a larger audience I would be as open as possible about your sources, especially as taking questions is usually part of it. I would assume that this would be a fairly new and interesting arena for many, and if the difficulty of researching the topic is such a large part of the paper as you say I would think you would get a lot of questions surrounding that.

Yeah, I can see how all of that can make it a very difficult job. I guess a survey could be a way to get meaningful data, but even then you have to be a visible part of the fandom to get any attention.