Blue Lines Revisited: Why Don't Researchers Care About Tumblr?

nedraggett:

stopmoving:

blackbeardblog:

I read a social media study yesterday from a research agency which had my eyebrows rising a bit. It was a global study talking about people’s awareness and usage of various platforms, and it seemed very compehensive. It talked about Facebook and Twitter,…

In response to this general exchange, might not the sheer volume/immediacy prevent research as you both outline? It’s such a firehose that it seems you’re only going to get retrospective analysis in shards.

Well most research is retrospective analysis ;) But yeah!

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  5. neilsociology reblogged this from tomewing and added:
    I know at least one person...should be filling it!
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  7. ilovecomput3rs reblogged this from nedraggett and added:
    Was there a mention of The Well? Reddit? Metafilter? Ilxor? Newgrounds? Trying to be comprehensive of the web is like...
  8. minimoonstar reblogged this from tomewing and added:
    This seems familiar to me: Livejournal (which I think of as Tumblr’s “cooler” (in the McLuhan sense not the hipness...
  9. theoreticalgirl reblogged this from nedraggett and added:
    Because it took them about three years to pay attention to Twitter. Specific to communication studies, there is...
  10. tomewing reblogged this from nedraggett and added:
    Well most research is retrospective analysis ;) But yeah!
  11. nedraggett reblogged this from tomewing and added:
    this general exchange, might not...sheer volume/immediacy prevent research
  12. stopmoving reblogged this from blackbeardblog and added:
    really, really want to see some in-depth work...tumblr demographics -
  13. charmian reblogged this from blackbeardblog and added:
    Poor unloved tumblr.
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