{"id":2282,"date":"2011-05-13T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/tumblrs-politics-tag\/"},"modified":"2011-05-13T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:50:47","slug":"tumblrs-politics-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/tumblrs-politics-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumblr’s Politics Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"

kohenari<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Some time ago, Tumblr started an official tag for political writing<\/a> and picked some editors who would identify content from amongst the various politically-oriented blogs. These editors would \u201ctag\u201d the posts as \u201cPolitics\u201d so that interested individuals could look through these featured posts, find new blogs to read, and generally keep an eye on the political writing of Tumblr users. And, to an extent, it works: when I was featured as a \u201ctop contributor\u201d this week, 10-20 new Tumblr users began following my blog.<\/p>\n

But, unsurprisingly, given the nature of the content, the \u201cPolitics\u201d tag has also become something of a battleground. Except, of course, that there are gatekeepers \u2014 the hand-picked editors \u2014 and so the battle tends to tilt one way. Indeed, the identification of content has become so contentious that many of the Tumblr users whose blogs I follow have stopped even looking at the \u201cPolitics\u201d tag because some of the editors\u2019 ideological biases have gotten out of hand.<\/p>\n

This morning, I saw that there were ten new posts that had been tagged by the editors.<\/p>\n

Of the ten, three were from laliberty<\/a>, three were from evilteabagger<\/a>, one was from 12onpaul<\/a>, and one was from libertarians<\/a>. That\u2019s four libertarian blogs, with eight of the ten new posts to be featured in the Tumblr \u201cPolitics\u201d tag. From this sort of representation, one would have to conclude that libertarianism was positively sweeping the nation!<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not the weirdest part, actually. Far stranger is the fact that not a single one of those posts contained any content that was actually written by the authors of those blogs; two of them, in fact, seemed to be entire chapters of books that the authors found online and simply quoted verbatim.<\/p>\n

So, I\u2019m done perusing the \u201cPolitics\u201d tag, even for the minute or two each day that I used to spend there. If I\u2019m looking for new blogs to read, I want original content, reasoned argumentation, and a genuine mix of material from across the ideological spectrum.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

YES to all of the above. My personal pet peeve is that gender politics (throughout the whole spectrum) are never tagged. Perhaps those posts are indeed tagged and I have never seen them? Additionally, European politics have no presence. The Tumblr “Politics Tag” should, in fact, be renamed to “American stuff, almost all the time”. Every now and then you see a post about the Middle East or some political issue that tangentially touches on American interests, but that’s about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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