Understanding Identity and Platform Cultures

Dyer, Harry T.; Abidin, Crystal

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“…It is popularly sighted that social media users showcase the uniqueness and individuality of their intersectional identities in their casual social media posts of their lives, experiences, and thoughts (e.g., Bhandari & Bimo, 2020;Dyer, 2017;Warfield et al, 2016). If identity is social performance (Goffman, 1959), ways to perform identity in social media pop cultures are contingent upon the norms, cultures, and designs of media platforms and communities (Dyer & Abidin, 2022). Thus, a myriad of movements and politics in social media are the processes and outcomes of negotiations between individual users; industries; media elements such as platform technologies; and environments such as algorithms, cultures, and economies.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue of “TikTok and Social Movements”

Jin

Abidin

2023

Social Media + Society

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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 symposium “TikTok and Social Movements” hosted in September 2021 by the TikTok Cultures Research Network, a research portal for interdisciplinary scholarship on TikTok cultures. The recent growing popularity of TikTok has transformed the cultures and practices of social movements worldwide. Through the platform’s participatory affordances, many users find meaningful ways to engage with the platform and its cultures, by leading and participating in a variety of activist initiatives for global awareness, social change, and civic politics. Within this context, this introduction to the Special Issue titled “TikTok and Social Movements” begins by thinking about how social media pop cultures have served as a vehicle for mobilizing and engaging in social movements for social (in)justice and politics in the era of social media. By situating TikTok, a nascent platform and culture of short video, within the ongoing discussion of digitally mobilized movements and social justice, this introduction addresses several crucial points to consider when discussing TikTok cultures and social movements that are happening or interrupted on the platform. These points are interrogated with more details and cultural contexts in the five case studies and three expert commentaries in this Special Issue. Specifically, the collection of papers interrogate how TikTok’s interactive and creative affordances have augmented and altered our cultures, practices, politics, and power dynamics of engaging with publics for various beliefs and social agendas.

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Section: Social Movements Through/in Social Media Pop Culturesmentioning

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Introduction to the Special Issue of “TikTok and Social Movements”

Jin

Abidin

2023

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Tourism Platforms and the Digital Biopolitics of Nature: An Interface Analysis of TripAdvisor in Patagonia-Aysén, Chile

Astaburuaga,

Leszczynski,

Gaillard

2024

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Héroes, ídolos y Jóvenes influencers

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Este estudio explica cómo la plataforma TikTok puede contribuir a desarrollar diferentes modelos de identidad entre los adolescentes fans, mediados por las industrias culturales. Los modelos teóricos adoptados son los que se centran en la cultura popular (Fiske, 1989) y, más recientemente, en el estudio TikTok (Abidin, 2021). La metodología combina big y small. Se inspira en las técnicas de análisis de contenido. Los resultados muestran diferentes dimensiones desde las que las industrias culturales construyen la identidad de héroes, ídolos o influencers. Las conclusiones se fijan en los retos planteados a la investigación mediante el estudio de esta red social.

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Understanding Identity and Platform Cultures

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

Introduction to the Special Issue of “TikTok and Social Movements”

Introduction to the Special Issue of “TikTok and Social Movements”

Tourism Platforms and the Digital Biopolitics of Nature: An Interface Analysis of TripAdvisor in Patagonia-Aysén, Chile

Héroes, ídolos y Jóvenes influencers

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