Abigail Oakley
Arizona State University, English, Graduate Student
- English, Rhetoric, Composition, Social Media, Social Networking & Social Media, Social Media and Collaborative Technologies, and 24 moreSocial Media and Higher Education, Internet & Society, Internet and Social Media, Education, Communication, Cultural Studies, Teacher Education, Identity (Culture), Self and Identity, The Internet, Internet Studies, Tumblr, Twitter, Pedagogy, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Feminist Research Methods, Feminism and Social Justice, Literacy, Digital Literacy, Internet research, Gender and Sexuality, Digital Media & Learning, and Composition and Rhetoricedit
- PhD candidate interested in online identity construction, social media, feminist theory/praxis/pedagogy, and digital pedagogies.edit
- Maureen Daly Gogginedit
In this article, I examine lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) Tumblr bloggers’ bio boxes and “About Me” pages to show the ways gender and sexual orientation identities are constructed through... more
In this article, I examine lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) Tumblr bloggers’ bio boxes and “About Me” pages to show the ways gender and sexual orientation identities are constructed through community-regulated and community-generated labeling practices. Tumblr encourages counter-cultures (and labeling practices) to not only form but also to thrive due to its distinctive affordances including tagging and blog formatting. This article examines not only how these affordances shape usage and, subsequently, identity construction on Tumblr but also the ways in which Tumblr bloggers have embraced affordances to create community-accepted conventions of identity construction. Additionally, building upon online identity scholarship by Bargh, McKenna, and Fitzsimons and Tiidenberg, this article discusses true self and nonbinary gender and sexual orientation labeling as forms of identity construction that allows LGBTQIA identifying individuals a method for nuanced descriptions of feelings and desires. However, far from perfect, these labeling practices are also grounded in hegemonic female/male, feminine/masculine binary discourse. In a Foucauldian sense, bloggers construct discourse within existing power structures that ignore or erase LGBTQIA as sexual “abnormalities.” Although it is nearly impossible to fully break away from the dominant discourse, these labeling practices can be a useful starting point for conversations about genders and sexualities that lie outside of the hegemonic binary.
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A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, edited by Allison McCracken, Alex Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch. University of Iowa Press. Forthcoming.
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Please see the conference paper in my drafts section
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Using metrics based on Chickering and Gamson’s seven principles of good practice in undergraduate education, this paper discusses how Twitter can boost student engagement in course materials, encourage self-motivated learning practices,... more
Using metrics based on Chickering and Gamson’s seven principles of good practice in undergraduate education, this paper discusses how Twitter can boost student engagement in course materials, encourage self-motivated learning practices, and provide opportunities for collaborative learning across multiple writing courses and learning axes—that is, Twitter, as a class discussion platform, represents a point where formal, informal, and collaborative learning may converge. This ultimately enables Twitter, as a platform, to facilitate student-to-student interaction in addition to student-to-instructor interaction in order to have a more customized, dynamic, and, possibly, more effective curriculum.
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This essay focuses on the LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer/questioning, intersex, and agender/asexual) identity construction and audience education that takes place on the blogging website, Tumblr. An... more
This essay focuses on the LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer/questioning, intersex, and agender/asexual) identity construction and audience education that takes place on the blogging website, Tumblr. An exploration and framework is set up to examine the ways that LGBTQIA Tumblr bloggers construct their gender and sexual identities within the public of Tumblr, specifically focusing on responses to anonymous asks and gender and sexuality labeling practices. Using a rhetorical analysis of a LGBTQIA blogger’s posts, I will argue that they construct their ethos as an educator through the practices of responding to anonymous asks and public labeling in order to be an authority to speak on LGBTQIA issues and subsequently educate receptive Tumblr audiences.
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This presentation was given at the 2014 Social Media & Society international conference in Toronto, ON. In it, I discussed how the strength of social ties can affect the type of discourse in which internet users engage.
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This presentation was given at the regional South West English Symposium in February of 2013, at the beginning of my second year of my MA. In this presentation, I discussed the new graduate student experience, the difficulties with... more
This presentation was given at the regional South West English Symposium in February of 2013, at the beginning of my second year of my MA. In this presentation, I discussed the new graduate student experience, the difficulties with academic jargon, and how seeing students who have different academic aspirations as "other" is problematic. Make sure to stick it out to the third page.