Palestinians have long been using social media as a tool for activism. Each platform
provides unique socio-technological affordances that shape users' communicative practices …

The TikTok platform has become widely popular among younger generations and has
influenced various industries and aspects of life. This systematic literature review, using …

TikTok is without any doubt the most popular social media among Gen Zers. Originally born
as a lip-syncing app, it can be exploited in different ways; as such, it represents a new fertile …

This Special Issue of “TikTok and Social Movements” emerges from an attempt to map out
the landscape of social movements happening on TikTok, drawing from the online …

This study explores how people engage with educational and motivational content on
TikTok. We conducted a mixed-methods content analysis of N= 400 health videos from the …

Migrant construction workers in Singapore produced TikTok videos sharing their structural,
social, and health conditions during the pandemic. The platform's user-centered design …

We examine how TikTok expanded into the South Korean landscape by utilizing K-pop as a
vehicle, thus demonstrating the theory of 'platformed glocalization'. After several failed …

Short videos on social media are the dominant way young people consume content. News
outlets aim to reach audiences through news reels—short videos conveying news—but …

The term “side” has emerged to describe communities on the short-form video app TikTok.
But what discursive work does the metaphor of side do to describe online communities …

The editors of this Feature Topic are founding members of the TikTok Cultures Research
Network that focuses on culturally-situated and qualitatively-grounded scholarship on TikTok …