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TikTok: Prekäre Plattform
Die Politische Meinung, volume 70, issue 592 (2025), pp. 20-89
"Mit rund 1,5 Milliarden monatlichen Nutzern ist TikTok ein globaler Kommunikationsraum – und ein geopolitisches Machtinstrument. Die Plattform steht mit im Zentrum der Rivalität zwischen den USA und China. Washington drängt auf eine Abspaltung vom chinesischen Mutterkonzern ByteDance, während
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Public libraries on TikTok: Emerging platform vernaculars of communication and distribution
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 20 pp.
"Libraries have long embedded social media platforms into their work practices, TikTok being a comparatively new addition. After its international launch, TikTok quickly became a popular platform, especially a space for ‘book talk’, called BookTok. The literature on libraries and TikTok is spars
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‘So, we have occupied TikTok’: Ukrainian women in #ParticipativeWar
Media, War & Conflict (2025), 18 pp.
"This study discusses the use of TikTok during the war that began with the Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022. TikTok has been the fastest growing social media channel and is known for its young user base. Although associated with lifestyle and light entertainment, it also become an importan
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Hooked on the Feed: An Analysis of How Facebook, TikTok, and X Shape Information Consumption in Eastern Europe
London: Thomson Foundation; Media Journalism Research Center (MJRC) (2025), 69 pp.
Von Hashtags und Geschichte: Vergangenheitsbezogene Hate Speech und ihre Multimodalität auf TikTok
Publizistik, volume 70 (2025), pp. 261-287
"Die audiovisuelle Plattform TikTok bildet mittlerweile einen relevanten Aushandlungsort für soziale Gruppen aller Art. User*innen bietet sich die Möglichkeit, eigene Räume für Vernetzung zu schaffen und Identitätsmanagement zu betreiben. Aufgrund der Plattformaffordanzen – vor allem Multimod
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Challenge-Check
Act On!; JFF Institut für Medienpädagogik (2024), 2 pp.
How Pharaohs Became Media Stars: Ancient Egypt and Popular Culture
Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing (2024), vi, 250 pp.
"The appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres. So-called popular or pop culture (cinema, genre
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Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 13 pp.
"Political and moral/religious contents are increasingly popular on TikTok, and the concerns associated with them create the premises for a re-exploration of the user–machine agency negotiation. Using algorithmic awareness as a process, this research examines the relationship between users’ awar
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Asking for solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space
Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 523-545
"The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, beginning in September 2022, is a key chapter in the ongoing process of women’s rights activism in Iran. Social media has constituted a significant arena for asking for global solidarity with women in Iran since the initial days of this movement. The overall aim
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Discussing the Role of TikTok Sharing Practices in Everyday Social Life
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 909-926
"A crucial element of TikTok consumption is the act of sharing TikTok videos with others, such as friends. In this article, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork with young adult TikTok users based in the United Kingdom to investigate this practice. I show how people use TikTok’s “For You” page as
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Self-Deprecating Cyberculture on TikTok: Experiences of Young Indonesians
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2201-2223
"The TikTok self-deprecating (SD) cyberculture is built on the exchange of SD memes among users who deprecate aspects of themselves on a daily basis. Predominantly composed of young people, SD memes on Indonesian TikTok reflect discourses on the daily struggles faced by young Indonesians. To explore
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“Drop a Bomb on Them . . . and Problem Solved!”: An Analysis of Poverty Discourse on TikTok
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1135-1156
"This research analyzes the discursive characteristics of hate messages posted on TikTok Spain against people at risk of social exclusion. Using critical discourse analysis, we analyzed 679 hateful messages generated by 100 videos found about poverty. This method considered the social groups mention
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Behind the Screen: How Successful Multi-Platform Journalist Jacque Manabat Uses TikTok to Reach a New Audience
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), September 24 (2024)
"[...] TikTok is much more than just a social network. Increasingly, it serves as a search engine, connecting its users with trends, music, and news—the latter in a significant way. Various studies indicate that TikTok has now become the primary news source for Gen Z, with this trend on the rise.
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Die TikTok-Intifada – Der 7. Oktober & die Folgen im Netz: Analyse & Empfehlungen der Bildungsstätte Anne Frank
Frankfurt am Main: Bildungsstätte Anne Frank (2024), 38 pp.
"Seit dem Terrorangriff der Hamas auf Israel am 7. Oktober 2023 spielen soziale Netzwerke eine bedeutende und vielfach unterschätzte Rolle bei der Verbreitung von Terrorpropaganda, Falschinformationen, Israelhass, Antisemitismus und Verschwörungsnarrativen. Die Bildungsstätte Anne Frank fasst in
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Antisemitismus in den Sozialen Medien
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Opladen et al.: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2024), 329 pp.
"Soziale Medien haben die Verbreitung von Antisemitismus revolutioniert. Algorithmisch verstärkt verbreitet sich Antisemitismus auf den Plattformen in Sekundenschnelle, kostenlos und global. Die daraus resultierende Gefahr für Jüdinnen*Juden ist eine große gesellschaftliche Herausforderung. Das
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Digital Literacy and Inclusion: Stories, Platforms, Communities
Cham: Springer (2024), xxi, 218 pp.
"More than a dozen experts provide deep insights in stories, research reports, and geographical studies of digital literacy and inclusion models, all from a multi-disciplinary perspective that includes engineering, social sciences, and education. Digital Literacy and Inclusion also highlights a show
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Challenge Accepted: Welche Challenges sich auf Tiktok verbreiten und wie Kinder und Jugendliche sie wahrnehmen. Zentrale Ergebnisse von Inhaltsanalyse und Befragung
Düsseldorf: Landesanstalt für Medien NRW (2024), 25 pp.
Generation Z in Chile, Colombia, México, and Panama: Interests and New Digital Consumption Habits. Their Use of Instagram and TikTok
Profesional de la Información, volume 32, issue 2 (2023), 15 pp.
"In a reality that combines the virtual with the physical and in a context of information saturation, there are consumers who are more critical, demanding, and less loyal. In this context, it is timely to know the new habits of the Centennials, so as to understand their behaviors and consumption tre
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Soft News in Original Videos: Adaptation to TikTok of the Main Spanish Online Media
Profesional de la Información, volume 32, issue 2 (2023), 17 pp.
"Since the beginning of 2020, media around the world have started and intensified their TikTok activity to gain notoriety and reach young people, their main user group. However, as with other previously popularized social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, the platform’s logic is different from t
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This is Africa: How Young African TikTok Trends Challenged Afropessimism During COVID-19
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 161-177
"Afropessimism, or the western media tradition of covering Africa in stereotypically negative ways, has continually served to strip the continent of representational nuance and agency. While Africa experienced its own COVID-19 challenges during the pandemic, the Afropessimistic outlook of total coll
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