Communicative forms on TikTok: Perspectives from digital ethnography

A Schellewald - International journal of communication, 2021 - ijoc.org
TikTok is an app that allows people to create, share, and consume short-video content.
Although only available internationally since 2017, it has already been downloaded more …

“Teachers act like we're robots”: TikTok as a window into youth experiences of online learning during COVID-19

I Literat - AERA open, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media, and especially popular youth-focused platforms like TikTok, can offer a
valuable window into youth experiences, including their perceptions of online learning …

Trick and please. A mixed-method study on user assumptions about the TikTok algorithm

D Klug, Y Qin, M Evans, G Kaufman - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Web …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The short-form video sharing app TikTok is characterized by content-based interactions that
largely depend on individually customized video feeds curated by the app's …

# GenZ on TikTok: the collective online self-portrait of the social media generation

CC Stahl, I Literat - Journal of youth studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences

A Schellewald - Media, Culture & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper I discuss the affordances and popularity of the short-video app TikTok from an
audience studies point of view. I do so by drawing on findings from ethnographic fieldwork …

What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case

L Cervi, C Marín-Lladó - Profesional de …, 2021 - revista.profesionaldelainformacion …
TikTok, already widely used before the pandemic, boomed during the quarantine that locked
down large parts of the world, reaching 2 billion downloads and 800 million monthly active …

User-generated short video content in social media. A case study of TikTok

A Shutsko - Social Computing and Social Media. Participation …, 2020 - Springer
According to Alexa's ranking of the top 500 sites on the web, YouTube takes the second
place, demonstrating the importance of online services focused on sharing of short self-shot …

Facilitating knowledge construction in informal learning: A study of TikTok scientific, educational videos

H Nguyen, M Diederich - Computers & Education, 2023 - Elsevier
Social media can facilitate informal learning, where individuals engage in phases of
knowledge construction (sharing ideas, exploring dissonances, negotiating, synthesizing …

What is a meme, technically speaking?

R Rogers, G Giorgi - Information, Communication & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This contribution seeks to demonstrate how studying memes as a collection depends on the
website or platform where they are sourced. To do so, we compare how memes, specifically …

How popular culture prompts youth collective political expression and cross-cutting political talk on social media: A cross-platform analysis

I Literat, N Kligler-Vilenchik - Social Media+ Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Adopting a comparative cross-platform approach, we examine youth political expression
and conversation on social media, as prompted by popular culture. Tracking a common case …