Analyzing How Different Platforms Shape Political Expression DOI
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Ioana Literat

Oxford University Press eBooks, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 31 - 52

Published: Oct. 24, 2024

Abstract Much current scholarship on social media and politics treats “social media” as if it were a unitary phenomenon when, in fact, differences between platforms crucially shape the dynamics of how plays out them. In this chapter, authors offer conceptual framework explaining different enable—as well constrain—certain forms political expression, through interaction their norms, affordances, contents. While Norms-Affordances-Contents (NAC) operates meso level platform, chapter also considers relation to micro individuals macro societies. subsequent chapters book, is used analyze three empirical case studies that follow. The offered here, however, goes beyond these specific topics, making theoretical contribution our understanding practices expression more broadly.

Language: Английский

TikTok as a Key Platform for Youth Political Expression: Reflecting on the Opportunities and Stakes Involved DOI Creative Commons
Ioana Literat, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

Social Media + Society, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 9(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Reflecting on 6 years of our research—which began musical.ly and transitioned into TikTok—we argue that TikTok is a vital space to study social movements due its centrality in youth lives ability give voice political expression richly creative ways. We see the happening as harbinger changing nature this phenomenon, necessary impetus broaden understandings activism today. At same time, we must also consider implications becoming such valuable for politics activism, terms kinds it affords or constrains, power gives platform. In closing, encourage scholars maintain balanced constructive approach researching platform, embrace messiness complexity inherent endeavor—which mirrors platform itself.

Language: Английский

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Mapping automatic social media information disorder. The role of bots and AI in spreading misleading information in society DOI Creative Commons
Andrea Tomassi, Andrea Falegnami, Elpidio Romano

et al.

PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(5), P. e0303183 - e0303183

Published: May 31, 2024

This paper presents an analysis on information disorder in social media platforms. The study employed methods such as Natural Language Processing, Topic Modeling, and Knowledge Graph building to gain new insights into the phenomenon of fake news its impact critical thinking knowledge management. focused four research questions: 1) distribution misinformation, disinformation, malinformation across different platforms; 2) recurring themes their visibility; 3) role artificial intelligence authoritative and/or spreader agent; 4) strategies for combating disorder. AI was highlighted, both a tool fact-checking truthiness identification bots, potential amplifier false narratives. Strategies proposed include improving digital literacy skills promoting among users.

Language: Английский

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Exploring How Youth Use TikTok for Mental Health Information in British Columbia, Canada: A Qualitative Study (Preprint) DOI Creative Commons
Roxanne Turuba,

Willow Cormier,

Rae Zimmerman

et al.

JMIR Infodemiology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 4, P. e53233 - e53233

Published: May 26, 2024

TikTok (ByteDance) experienced a surge in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic as way for people to interact with others, share experiences and thoughts related pandemic, cope ongoing mental health challenges. However, few studies have explored how youth use learn about health.

Language: Английский

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The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine DOI
Marcus Bösch, Tom Divon

New Media & Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 26(9), P. 5081 - 5106

Published: Aug. 30, 2024

TikTok has emerged as a powerful platform for the dissemination of mis- and disinformation about war in Ukraine. During initial three months after Russian invasion February 2022, videos under hashtag #Ukraine garnered 36.9 billion views, with individual scaling up to 88 million views. Beyond traditional methods spreading misleading information through images text, medium sound novel, platform-specific audiovisual technique. Our analysis distinguishes various war-related sounds utilized by both Ukraine Russia classifies them into typology. We use computational propaganda features—automation, scalability, anonymity—to explore how TikTok’s auditory practices are exploited exacerbate disorders context ongoing events. These include reusing coordinated campaigns, creating audio meme templates rapid amplification distribution, deleting original conceal orchestrators’ identities. conclude that recommendation system (the “for you” page) acts space where exposure is strategically navigated users’ intervention, enabling semi-automated “soft” thrive leveraging its features.

Language: Английский

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The Use of TikTok for Political Campaigning in Canada: The Case of Jagmeet Singh DOI Creative Commons
Aidan Moir

Social Media + Society, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 9(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

TikTok is a critical platform for political campaigns seeking to engage with new publics through digital advocacy. Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, has emerged as celebrity since establishing his profile in 2019. At time writing, he only Canadian federal party using interactions greatly surpassing those on other social media profiles. Strategically utilizing promote justice-oriented and build momentum preparation snap election, campaign received extensive attention from press. Through qualitative content analysis videos news coverage Singh’s activity TikTok, this article questions how thematically engages democratic politics within context permanent campaign. Attention directed toward Singh employs TikTok’s features establish brand left-wing populism advocate against systematic inequality appeal youthful demographic.

Language: Английский

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Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos DOI
Jian Lin, Joëlle Swart,

Guohua Zeng

et al.

Media Culture & Society, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 45(8), P. 1550 - 1567

Published: Oct. 6, 2023

Instead of viewing TikTok as a platform, in this article we borrow Dutch film theorist Patricia Pisters’s concept neuro-images to approach cultural form that is deeply participatory, platform contingent, and algorithmically engraved. In the co-production between algorithms users, becomes an enormous database generates personalised narratives about individuals world onto through its ‘brain-screen’ interfaces, which simulate our conscious unconscious mind, actualise idea creativity based on repetition. thus enables quasi-automated cinema, whose non-stopping filming everyday lives does not seek reduce desires tastes into singular coherent structure, but instead uncovers, releases contains them vast leading fluid modulating categorisation identities. It within quasi-automated, participatory digital cinema constitutes neuro-images, producing distinctive experience time, unpredictable unstable futures.

Language: Английский

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The Media Trust Gap and Its Political Explanations: How Individual and Sociopolitical Factors Differentiate News Trust Preferences in Asian Societies DOI Creative Commons
Yufan Guo, Yuzhe Lei

The International Journal of Press/Politics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 10, 2025

Despite the increasing reliance on online media for news consumption, people generally exhibit lower levels of trust in relative to traditional media. To explain preference disparities and their potential cross-national variations, this article examines individuals’ gap between newspapers Internet across 14 countries regions East, South, Southeast Asia. Drawing nationally representative data other country-level (2018–2021), we test two underlying mechanisms, political transfer alternative information orientation, that account gap, as well boundary conditions. Multilevel analysis reveals positively correlates with people’s newspapers, which is pronounced societies polarization limited press freedom. Besides, using social main channels seeking may increase news, especially higher freedom polarization. Our findings offer systematic explanations preferences by combining characteristics contextual conditions, have implications understanding today’s crisis.

Language: Английский

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TikTok as a communication and information tool for Spanish local councils DOI
Álex Iván Arévalo Salinas, Marcial García López, Álvaro Blanco Morett

et al.

Technology in Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 102885 - 102885

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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News for (Me and) You: Exploring the Reporting Practices of Citizen Journalists on TikTok DOI Creative Commons
Chelsea Peterson‐Salahuddin

Journalism Studies, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 25(9), P. 1076 - 1094

Published: Dec. 21, 2023

The social media platform TikTok is increasingly becoming an important space for sharing and finding news information, especially younger people. Most scholarly research examining on has focused practices by professional journalists organizations; however, these are only a small percentage of the actors who make up information ecosystem platform. In particular, citizen play large role in creating disseminating TikTok. Thus, I interviewed 14 to understand their reporting practices. Findings suggest guided logics concerns around misinformation content they post This study contributes literature shaping disseminated online.

Language: Английский

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The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict DOI Creative Commons
Moran Yarchi, Lillian Boxman-Shabtai

Digital Journalism, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 21

Published: Dec. 13, 2023

The increasing mediatization of war makes battles over public image evermore prominent. Individual citizens, no longer mediated by traditional gatekeepers, engage in diplomacy and citizen-journalism, communicating directly to the public. TikTok, a visual social media platform, was used extensively Palestinians Israelis mobilize international support during 2021 round Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This paper examines appeals that Israeli Palestinian TikTok users made audiences comparing 318 posts sampled from two rhetorically equivalent hashtags. A content analysis examining strategies used, found each side emphasized different themes (e.g., victimization on side, personal narratives side). Although pro-Israeli were more strategic their use platform's features, multi-variate engagement pro-Palestinian activists successful creating engagement. To further understand complex subtle meaning structures encoded into posts, subsample 42 highly shared probed qualitatively for its aesthetics values, using semiotic analysis. first study compare efforts across parties, this contributes knowledge about ways citizens bear witness warzones, platform affordance storytelling, with community.

Language: Английский

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