Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation
Deleted Journal,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
2
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025
This
paper
delves
into
communications
dynamics
between
social
media
platforms
and
their
users
as
they
navigate
the
opacity
of
governance
policies.
Using
Meta
TikTok
case
studies,
we
reveal
that
gaslighting
–
traditionally
linked
with
relationship
abuse
where
one
partner
undermines
validity
other's
experience
has
become
a
pervasive
communication
strategy
for
platforms,
manifesting
in
numerous
instances
automated
human
platform
have
directly
contradicted
users’
experiences,
evidence
research.
We
analyse
36
diverse
interview
datasets
six
public
responses
to
content
moderation
issues,
highlighting
systemic
nature
this
phenomenon
within
digital
spaces.
By
moving
beyond
shadowbanning
isolated
platform-to-user
dialogue,
expand
scholarly
understanding
encompass
broader
spectrum
governance-related
communications.
Our
dataset
draws
from
seemingly
disparate
groups
who
share
experiences:
Jewish
creators
engaged
combating
antisemitism,
Palestinian
advocating
rights
sex-positive
creators,
whose
expertise
stories
are
dismissed
belittled
by
platforms.
participants'
experiences
demonstrate
conceptualising
can
help
expose
corporate
power
imbalances
platform-user
interactions,
particularly
cases
govern
through
undisclosed
practices
such
de-platforming
triggered
malicious
flagging,
along
ambiguous
representatives.
how
dismissal
or
minimisation
participants’
traumatic
platforms’
processes
teams
is
weaponised
inflict
epistemic
injustice,
consolidate
power,
safeguard
image
evade
accountability.
Язык: Английский
Children as concealed commodities: Ethnographic nuances and legal implications of kidfluencers’ monetisation on TikTok
New Media & Society,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 19, 2025
Our
article
delves
into
the
emergence
of
‘kidfluencers’
within
content
creator
economy,
highlighting
how
children’s
participation
intertwines
their
identities
with
monetisation
strategies
on
platforms.
Focusing
TikTok,
we
blend
ethnographic
and
legal
analysis
215
videos
from
23
kidfluencers
in
Israel,
New
Zealand
Unites
States,
illuminating
complexities
monetising
childhood
across
cultures.
We
highlight
four
visibility
practices
which
children
are
exposed,
mobilised
commodified
parents’
content:
(1)
kids
as
props;
brands
playmates,
(2)
transactional
childhood,
(3)
aspirational
child-ification
(4)
regulative
parenthood.
shows
become
concealed
commodities,
varying
degrees
(in)visibility
practices,
playful
branded
to
embodying
idealised
notions
for
brand
visibility.
situate
our
regulatory
frameworks,
revealing
TikTok’s
policies
conceal
role
monetised
content,
reflect
platform
liability
under
European
Union’s
Digital
Services
Act.
Язык: Английский
Public attitudes toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in China: A text mining analysis
Telematics and Informatics,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown, С. 102243 - 102243
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025
Язык: Английский
UFOs, ghosts, and cryptids on TikTok: How short-form videos on a social media platform present paranormal phenomena
Atlantic Journal of Communication,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 20
Опубликована: Апрель 8, 2025
Язык: Английский
Von Hashtags und Geschichte: Vergangenheitsbezogene Hate Speech und ihre Multimodalität auf TikTok
Publizistik,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Апрель 16, 2025
You are the main character: attribution and visibility on TikTok
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 15
Опубликована: Ноя. 1, 2024
Hypertext
theory
from
the
1990s
and
database
2000s
still
provide
a
useful
foundation
for
explaining
new
authoring
practices
on
video-sharing
platform
TikTok,
but
this
earlier
literature
may
underestimate
importance
of
labour.
Because
hyperlinking
is
automated
whenever
composers
select
filters,
hashtags,
audio
clips,
author
references
to
other
videos
"stitching"
"dueting"
remix
pre-existing
databases
material,
TikTok
characterised
by
rich
attributional
citation.
At
same
time,
site's
users
are
keenly
aware
that
search
recommendation
algorithms
not
showcase
their
published
materials
additional
labour
be
required
contributions
visible
in
larger
hyperlinked
matrix
participation.
Users
also
choose
de-link
content
or
others.
Case
studies
drawn
variations
2020
"main
character"
meme,
2023
moral
panic
about
supposedly
dangerous
"boat
jumping"
"trend",
Ukrainian
"war
influencers".
Язык: Английский