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Possible outcomes from the oracle tiktok saga.. - Bytedance isn’t selling their algorithm - Tiktok and Douyin will merge and dominate - U.S, tech will extort nations to ban TikTok - U.S. is trapped behind the not so great American firewall - Sequoia wins P.S. see Paramount

I can’t believe I’ve been talking, researching, and framing the conditions of U.S. and Chinese platform nationalism for over five years now and everything we said would happen…is. Hint: TikTok is but one small piece of a bigger and dynamic puzzle.

Thanks @NPR, although I guess this is yesterday's news...but oh have I got lots to say about today's.

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Fun podcast from a panel discussion last spring a LA Bookfest. Screen Time: Television, Society, and Identity via @YouTube

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Douyin is a more advanced, better integrated, more censorious version of TikTok perfected for Chinese nationals only. Now, in response to U.S. platform nationalism, Douyin is available to the whole world. Checkmate. Cue the cries of Chinese platform imperialism and colonialism.

By one of our nation's most extraordinary scholars. Available in paperback. p.s. I had the extraordinary opportunity to be interviewed for this work.

Congrats to those accepted at ICA (and regrets to those who weren't...we feel you.) FYI, the 4th CreatorCon, an ICA pre-conference to be held at the University of Boulder for platform, creator, wanghong, and influencer studies is still taking submissions.

“Westerners using the app will start to encounter Chinese people and be exposed to their ideas and culture, which is likely to further frighten Western politicians engaging in what I refer to as ‘platform nationalism’,” ...Thanks @stokel

@jackltang I’d love more details.

@drjessmaddox “Platform nationalism” (Craig et al). 😝

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