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Publication details [#67010]

Tiidenberg, Katrin and Andrew Whelan. 2019. “Not like that, not for that, not by them”: social media affordances of critique. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 48 (2) : 83–102.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This article has two aims: to explicate the sociotechnical conditions that ease critique on social media platforms (specifically: Tumblr); and to operationalize a “working theory” from Foucault’s conceptualization of critique. It assays resistant practices observed in a Not Safe For Work (NSFW) community on Tumblr and shows how critique emerges from shared practices of ethics.