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TikTok Cultures in the United States
TikTok Cultures in the United States examines the role of TikTok in US popular culture, paying close attention to the app's growing body of subcultures. Featuring an array of scholars from varied disciplines and backgrounds, this book uses TikTok (sub)cultures as a point of departure from which to explore TikTok's role in US popular culture today. Engaging with the extensive and growing scholarship on TikTok from international scholars, chapters in this book create frameworks and blueprints from which to analyze TikTok within a distinctly US context, examining topics such as gender and sexuality, feminism, race and ethnicity and wellness. Shaping TikTok as an interdisciplinary field in and of itself, this insightful and timely volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of new and digital media, social media, popular culture, communication studies, sociology of media, dance, gender studies, and performance studies.
134 pages, Hardcover
Published April 4, 2022
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January 24, 2024
This was a very interesting collection of essays on various subcultures on Tiktok and the positive and negative consequences the algorithm can have. Some essays were especially interesting to read, because I witnessed similar things on the platform, like how relatable queer content can help users feel more comfortable in their identity or even discover it, how unfortunately the algorithm is based on engagement, leading to controversy going viral more often than wholesome/supportive content, how black creator's ideas were often used by conventionally attractive white women who would then go viral, how frustrating it is that racist hate is often not deleted etc.
I also loved the essays about Tiktok introducing feminism to young girls and young black girls using the platform to make dancing videos for fun without posting them. Tiktok is truly an interesting phenomenon that is incredibly influential these days and this book was a great reflection on some of its aspects.
I also loved the essays about Tiktok introducing feminism to young girls and young black girls using the platform to make dancing videos for fun without posting them. Tiktok is truly an interesting phenomenon that is incredibly influential these days and this book was a great reflection on some of its aspects.
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