Debating Communities and Networks XVI

#SocialNetworks

How the Affordances of Tumblr Create Echo Chambers: Using the Avatar: The Last Airbender Fandom

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28/04/2025

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Ashleigh-V

Tumblr is a blogging website and app that has become synonymous with fandom and fan creation. The platform is one of the most text-based social media platforms available, with many people posting their fanfiction, short stories and, in some spaces, analyses. However, it is a multimedia platform and, therefore, has a lot of fan art…
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Communities and Social Media

#SocialNetworks, Affordances, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Communities, Communities and Social Media, community, Discourse, Echo Chamber, online networks, Public Discourse, Social Media, Tumblr
LinkedIn: Persistent Pervasive Communities or Diluted Performative Connections?

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25/04/2025

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Justin

Abstract LinkedIn, that massive professional networking site we all know, has totally changed how we connect in our work lives. But we have to ask at what cost? In this paper, I have taken a look at LinkedIn through Hampton’s idea of ‘persistent and pervasive’ communities and found that despite connecting an incredible 1.1 billion…
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Communities and Social Media

#CommunitiesOfPractice, #DCN2025, #FilterBubbles, #HamptonFramework, #Metrics, #PersistentCommunities, #PervasiveCommunities, #ProfessionalIdentity, #SocialMedia #LinkedIn #ProfessionalNetworking #OnlineCommunities #DigitalCommunities #SocialCapital, #SocialNetworks, algorithms