Since its acquisition and rebranding in 2018, TikTok has become one of the fastest growing
platforms in the world. Moreover, it's the first Chinese-developed platform to find mainstream …

TikTok, a short‐video app featuring video content typically between 15 and 60 s long, has
become immensely popular around the world in the last few years. However, the worldwide …

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

In contrast to academic and popular accounts that present generational characteristics from
the outside, in a top-down manner, we explore how Gen Z constructs, narrates, and projects …

Social media can facilitate informal learning, where individuals engage in phases of
knowledge construction (sharing ideas, exploring dissonances, negotiating, synthesizing …

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

The business ecosystem surrounding user-generated videos (UGVs) is rapidly expanding.
However, existing literature on the motivations for UGV consumption presents …

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 …

TikTok—the world's most downloaded app since 2020, has become a place for more than
silly dancing and lip-syncing. TikTok users are increasingly turning to TikTok for news …

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 …