Anatomy of A Tumblr Trend part 2: the semantic network map
So Tumblr’s got this cool feature where, if you search for a tag, it gives you 3 related tags that are (presumably) most commonly used in combination with your search term.
So I searched for the 2 Tumblr trends I’m currently interested in - street goth and health goth - and followed these links to see what they connected to. This creates a kind of semantic network, a way to diagram how people on Tumblr link different style subcultures, based on the top three most-associated terms neighbouring each term.
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This is all super-interesting and worth the click-thru, but that “(presumably)” is an awful big one – the entire piece hinges on that presumption being correct. Anyone know if that’s actually true?
(via tomewing-blog)
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