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social media explorer 🦆 zeitgeist enthusiast 🌈 phd @HebrewU 📚 study platforms, memes, activism, creators & play 🤳 MiddleEast regional leader @tiktokcultures
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📢📢📢PhD publication! after 1.5 years of ethnographic exploration of Ukrainian creators on TikTok, I'm thrilled to share our OA work with my brilliant friend
@moaerikssonkrut
on PLAYFUL TRAUMA in times of war and adversity 🇺🇦💛; pls join me in unpacking🧵
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🇮🇱Playful Publics🇵🇸 Immensely proud to contribute to this brilliant collection - Critical Meme Reader 2.0 - by
@INCAmsterdam
; My chapter explores the toxicity inhabited in playful platforms (TikTok) in which memetic practices (
#challenge
) inflame warfare🧶
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@te_hartmann
& I were thrilled to engage with brilliant scholars on our theoretical lens of "Serious TikTok" at
@SocMediaConf
; Intriguing views about TikTok's playful attitude that revise ethical & moral questions on how we address weighty topics like hate speech-religion-war🔍
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✡️✨
#JewishTikTok
: The JewToks’ Fight against Antisemitism✨✡️ - publication THREAD! Together with
@te_hartmann
, we introduce the
#JewishTikTok
community in the US and explore their creative ways to educate on Judaism and combat hate speech on TikTok ⏭️
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PhD PUB! 🚨 Thrilled to share my paper (
@SocialMedia_Soc
) with Laura Cervi exploring the ways Palestinian TikTokers performed their acts of resistance during the Israel-Gaza warfare in 2021 while utilizing TikTok's memetic templates of
#challenge
🇵🇸 see 🧵:
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🕯️ Doing Memory on TikTok 🕯️Collaborated with
@TikTok_Germany
,
@te_hartmann
, and I recruited 10 key institutions in the field of Holocaust Commemoration and Education in Germany; Our long-term goal - to materialize TikTok's potential for institutionalized Holocaust remembrance
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#ICA23
& TikTok lovers, the time has come for the annual program 💫⭐️🤩 I collected all papers listed under "TikTok" - pls share & use! Fascinating to see the shift of research orbit over the year, mirroring the platform's transformations & ramifications⬇️
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writing about TikTok? few ideas from reviewing a bunch of TikTok papers lately: (1) if your study explores something that happens on TikTok, it's purposeful; platforms are not just the venue but often are the catalysts for cultural phenomena; don't de-emphasize their existence >>
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✨✨Influencer Creep: Professionals as Influencers on Social Media✨✨Lead by a dream team of thinkers, our
#ica23
panel (
@ICAPopular
) will examine how influencer(ism) creep into everyday life as an expansion of micro-celebrity practices across social media platforms🤳🎭
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I was invited by
@IsraelMFA
to speak on our (
@te_hartmann
) research (
@HujiComm
) around TikTok & Hate Speech; I urged 25 European ambassadors to stop: (1) generalizing social media (TikTok ≠ Instagram; 4chan ≠ Reddit), (2) calling online antisemitism "new." Obvs, it is not. 1\4
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Playful Publics work as a communalized collection of people driven by powerful forces of 1⃣imitation2⃣emotion, and3⃣play; In times of conflict, Playful Publics rush to join TikTok's *visibility games* using the
#challenge
as memetic labor privileged with algorithmic amplification
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Sending the manuscript in 2019.
Three years later, revisions arrive:
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Audio memes aren't TikTok's property, but indeed the platform's strongest currency; Four critical nuggets: 🎧 many of the audio memes aren't incidental, whimsical audial moments of users' life, but engineered pathways of users accumulating virality 1\3
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🗣️🗣️🗣️ LIVE: our CFP for a SI in New Media & Society on *Contextual Complexities of Violence on Digital Platforms*; for us editors (
@EstebanMoralesV
,
@MyriadMeanings
, Nour Halabi & I) coming from conflict areas, this issue is pressing ❤️🩹; share & join us!
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TikTok's features, grassroots content and algorithmic serendipity afford
#PublicHistory
observability and the migration among diverse ForYou pages✨🔍Had the delight to engage with smart ppl at the
#ipfh2022
esp the feb gang
@te_hartmann
@JasonSteinhauer
@janeinvll
@frau_lorenz
🤩
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📣📣📣reminder: the majority in academia (+the🌎) have English as a *second* language; stop apologizing & embrace the beauty of linguistic imperfections; tho English is the primary way of communicating, our verbal proficiency doesn't define our intelligence, knowledge or worth 🫶
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DSA > Platforms > Regulation > Policies > Content > Influencers > Monetization > Let's start to make sense of this legal terrain!
@CatalinaGoanta
@TaylorAnnabell
& I aim to equip media scholars with access & clarity to nuances in our mini-series 🤩 come join us 🤩 link for reg 👇🏿
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🎧 in times of crisis (which is always), TikTok's audio memes can be highly productive carriers of Mis-disinformation 🎧 mega audio memes are commodified by industry practitioners (e.g., DJs), being integrated into real-life club hits, becoming users' exploited labor🕺🪩💃2\3
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💥announcement💥 I am running for AoIR's Graduate Student Representative! 🙌🤗 The other candidates are my brilliant, talented & beautiful friends -
@blackgaygemini
@aVizcainoVerdu
@HanneMarleen
- so tbh any choice will be amazing for us - grad community - and for
@AoIR_org
! ➡️
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#LGBTQ
#TikTok
creators revolutionizing the concept of
#sex_ed
lessons; “where school falls short, we kick in”; Meet the
#TikTokers
who empower gay users by embracing their inexperience & fighting
#porn
socialization among the community🏳️🌈
#bottomTok
🏳️⚧️
@i_D
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🔉 our new pub lands at symbolic times: exactly 2y since the invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦💛 in a timely edited volume, "Media and the War in Ukraine" (
@PeterLangGroup
), Moa Eriksson Krutrok & I explore TikTok's unique features of war & trauma storytelling; see🧵
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#COVID
has acted as a catalyst for the future of
#Holocaust
remembrance, with memorials establishing genuine, interactive dialogue with users & potential visitors. More on the power of a single Hashtag, with
@te_hartmann
, on the occasion of
#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
Can you become a ‘friend’ of Bergen-Belsen? How COVID has triggered a new online dialogue about Holocaust remembrance
@te_hartmann
@TomDivon
Opinion
#HMD2021
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🚨Hate influencers on TikTok 🚨harness the platform’s playful vernacular of performance memes in toxic ways; Hate influencers are blatantly monetizing antisemitism into virility; This one was reported but is still enjoying algorithmic amplification on the fyp;
#dark_TikTok
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📢📢📢 yes, Gaza is trending; I've recently reviewed a few papers on Gaza, Israel, activism, war & conflict; those are all brave attemps of scholars to capture the dire realities, but they fall short in tapping into the rich Palestinian landscape of voices; pls use & share (🧵👇)
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🎧 Audio memes might provide iconic moments to our internet culture discourse ("Nobody's Gonna Know"🤫), but with rapid turnovers, we shouldn't hurry to crown them as classics (e.g., Clueless "Ugh! As if! 🙄) 3\3; Intriguing Podcast by
@CharoShane
; More to come on audio memes!
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conferences, pls do more of (1) colorful keynote speakers who are (really) ECR; (2) enthusiastic hosts who (really) take the time to connect with students; (3) on-stage invitation for the (really) deserved backend teams;
#GDC_UVA23
, thanks for setting the golden standard!🏅✨🫶
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I'm grateful to receive so many messages from AoIR ppl willing to provide input & drive change!
@AoIR_org
is truly blessed to have such passionate grads community members, and it’s an honor to represent our voices; I can’t wait to start doing fab things together with you all ✨🫶
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THIS WEEK! pumped by my research visit to the GenAI Lab (
@jeanburgess
💖) at
@QUT
; will deliver a talk on media spaces in & around Gaza, tracing creators' work of transforming war zones into desirable content, and using AI creativity to reimagine Palestinian resistance; join us!👇
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🚨
#TikTok
panel proposal
#ICA2022
🚨 Dear colleagues,
@te_hartmann
and I are working on assembling the first
@ICAVisComm
panel on TikTok; We're delighted to invite your academic contributions reflecting on TikTok and its educational potentials; Details ▶️
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friends. humanity. love. needed it 🫶❤️🩹
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the first scholarly contribution about BeReal is out! check out this mesmerizing mosaic of thinkers offering a window into one of today's most intriguing platforms; a pleasure to co-edit with the kick-🍑
@disabledphd
and
@FlowTV
's team; see the list of columns below⏬
Happy Flow-entines Day! We are proud to announce the release of special issue Volume 29.04, "The Struggle Is (for) Real: Cultivating Authenticity in the 'BeReal' age"! Thanks to guest editors
@TomDivon
and
@disabledphd
. Read the full issue here:
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oh, yes, the bin-laden thing is an orchestrated propaganda maneuver; this scenario of the fyp flooded with videos of influencers calling others to join the exposure of ideology is the Russian influencers' campaign all over again; pls join me for context 👇🏿
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It’s live! 🚨
@disabledphd
+ I are guest editing one of the first scholarly publications on “BeReal” for
@FlowTV
🤳✨🔍 Submissions - until Jan15, 2023; Pumped to reading your short and inspiring observations on BeReal, platforms, authenticity (by demand?), and the future of SM🔮
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Guest Issue on Cultivating Authenticity & BeReal! Submissions due January 13, 2023! Shareable link here:
thx to
@TomDivon
and
@disabledphd
for guest editing this exciting issue!
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my 🇬🇧 flame
@sophiehbishop
tied the knot with my Prince
@DanjoKaz00ie
👰♀️💍🤵🏻 & I was there to witness the undeniable existence of LOVE while embodying the British lady vibes with my first ✨fascinator✨ experience; thank you, S&D, for the open access to your hearts, my UK fam💕💖
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I am unsure what home awaits my return, but I am certain I have found one in Oz 🥹✨ thank you, beautiful people on the other side of the world; you have been the solace I needed before returning to my shattered madhouse ❤️🩹
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eager to present this work (
@uva_gdc
) with the brilliant
@bloggeronpole
& Pam Briggs on "Platform Gaslighting"; we vocalise creators' insights into their manipulated realities of content moderation on Instagram and TikTok, carried out via platforms' automated & human strategies🤯
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the outpouring of love, care & empathy from friends worldwide, offering their homes to me (and Alex 🐶), overwhelms my 💙; each DM, WhatsApp, or email brings tears to my eyes; despite the political disputes for some, i deeply appreciate your commitment to our shared humanity 💔🫶
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🗣️🌟🗣️🌟submissions are now open for
#AoIR2024
! join the community of internet researchers in Sheffield (Oct30-Nov2); this year's spotlight is✨INDUSTRY✨; scholars are invited to explore this theme through diverse lenses, as detailed👇🏿; submit by March 1
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talking about the 2021 Israel-Gaza war amidst the backdrop of another one unfolding demanded immense emotional strength; i'm sharing my introductory statement for our
#AoIR2023
panel on Social Media Violence; please bear with me, as these words were penned with a heavy heart:
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Palestinian resistance & AI extend far beyond Rafah; social media platforms empower users with creative tools to (re)narrativize their lived experiences, offering them means of control in a reality where this is otherwise absent; a glimpse into my ongoing collected observations:
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German institutions for Holocaust education onboard to TikTok for reaching younger Gens; In this unique journey with
@tiktok_de
&
@AJCBerlin
,
@te_hartmann
& I help them translate history into the platform’s vernacular; Watch
@GedenkstaetteNG
playfully TikTok(ing) the Holocaust ✨
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@Livingstone_S
's inspiring talk (
@HebrewU
) urged us to stop assuming & start engaging with youth on their digital lives; it reminded me of my 14y niece saying school is "always so behind.; can we bridge this gap? who should navigate online understandings: institutions or youth?💡
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INTIMACY is as a powerful political force; it’s a voice, a weapon, a practice & more; that's the main
@uva_gdc
takeaway from 2 mind-buzzing conference days, where brilliant scholars surgically unpacked this concept! below is the type of intimacy I needed with my academic fam 🥹🫶
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Behold this beautiful selection of papers delving into the nuanced subcultures of activism on TikTok ✨💪🏿
We’re excited to announce that our third
#TikTokCultures
Special Issue has been published in
@SocialMedia_Soc
(Volume 9, Issue 1)! Edited by
@jinlee_media
&
@wishcrys
, with a focus on “TikTok & Social Movements”
🧵👇
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#ICA23
- dressing room realness! Tnx to my “influencer creep” gallant dream team (
@sophiehbishop
@stein_krysten
@drjessmaddox
@thechristinet
), Alex (🐶), my FOMO sign & I could join and discuss recent work on “influencers bullying” practices in conflict-ridden territories (🇮🇱) 🫶
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i hate religion; hate bloodshed; hate wars; but love my Corgi-shaped Menorah (🕎), and love how much Alex hates it 🤣🤭
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#ICA22
Preconf✨"Visualizing What’s Social: Research & Methodological Solutions"✨Join the thrilling combo of practical and theoretical visual dilemmas; I will discuss Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok Challenges"🇵🇸
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Delighted to be part of the first book to reflect on TikTok as a culture-making space in the US, exploring TikTok's colorful worlds: Black, Latinx, Witches, Trans, Feminism, and others;
@te_hartmann
and I introduce the JewishTikTok fight against the algorithmic and human hate✡️✨
Happy publication day to “TikTok Cultures in the United States,” edited by yours truly & featuring some sizzling new scholarship on TikTok’s relationship to US popular culture. The eBook is discounted at $18.36. Get your library to buy the hardback.
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🔉✨thrilled to see our special issue (
@jdsr_journal
) out! for audiovisual scholars interested in novel ways to look into visual politics & protest, please explore our insightful contributions on mixed methods, data curation & anti-publics; list of papers👇🏿
Chuffed to show the fruit of what has been a beautiful collaboration with
@TomDivon
,
@HadasSch
, &
@Nikiforovna
with a great set of papers:
@jdsr_journal
Special Issue on on Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: mixed methods, data curation & anti-publics
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Hey
@AoIR_org
ppl! We're eager grad rep nominees who made a collage to celebrate the election opening! We're all devoted humans ready to serve the community; Pls vote: the Kick-🍑
@aVizcainoVerdu
(top-R)
@HanneMarleen
(bottom-L)
@blackgaygemini
(bottom-R) & me (+Alex, my Corgi 🐶)
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on Google's 25th anniversary, influencers were greeted with an unsettling surprise from G-Israel: cakes decorated with their own top 5 G-searches; as they celebrated this privacy breach in *data-reveal* parties throughout the day, i found myself sinking into the abyss of cringe🫠
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and we're LIVE - the CCSN!✨✨✨passionate about creator culture studies? we're a squad of scholars exploring creators & platforms via diverse lenses, and we’ve created a hub packed with many goodies! check our website, register for the newsletter & explore how to join the fam😍
🎉 Introducing the Content Creator Scholars Network! 🎉 (CCSN)! Your latest hub for the research, education & public scholarship on/about/with platform content creators! Let us tell you about how we came to be and what resources are available to you!
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thank you,
@zizip
, for the shoutout & for being the home -
@SocialMedia_Soc
- for so many of us internet thinkers; Please visit our paper that explores how Palestinian TikTokers perform resistance while utilizing TikTok's memetic templates of
#challenge
🇵🇸
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok
#Challenges
- Laura Cervi, Tom Divon, 2023
@SocialMedia_Soc
#TikTok_SocialMovements
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🥁✨such a kick-🍑 session at the Global Digital Intimacies conference (
@uva_gdc
) in June! my co-soul
@bloggeronpole
& I will be amplifying the voices of creators navigating their gaslighted platform realities; mind-blowing talks featured in the program!👇
eager to present this work (
@uva_gdc
) with the brilliant
@bloggeronpole
& Pam Briggs on "Platform Gaslighting"; we vocalise creators' insights into their manipulated realities of content moderation on Instagram and TikTok, carried out via platforms' automated & human strategies🤯
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thrilled to be presenting at this ultra-diverse
@tiktokcultures
satellite online event with the talented double-J (
@JessRauchberg
&
@drjessmaddox
) about Jewish entrepreneurialism labor on TikTok; register👇& join a fab gang of thinkers coming to unpack TikTok creator economies🤩
We are very excited for TikTok Creators & Digital Economies next week! This is TCRN’s first satellite online event, hosted by
@LCCLondon
✨
You can find the full programme & registration details here:
#TikTokCultures
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📢📢PART 2! thrilled to share the second part of our (
@SuayOzkula
,
@HadasSch
,
@Nikiforovna
) special issue with
@jdsr_journal
on Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: Deconstruction, Reflexivity & femmix; visit our introductory part & explore papers in 🧵
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Getting the *reviewer of the year* crown from
@ysabelgerrard
at
#ecrea2022
means the world to me; Thank you for your service as the chair of
@DCCECREA
in recent years and for being one of my favorite knowledge makers ✨🫶🏻
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Collaborating with this team on such a triggering research project is a true honor 🙏✨ I warmly invite you to join our
#AoIR2023
panel as we delve into the realm of everyday violent practices, aesthetics & grammar used on social media platforms in zones of conflict 🇵🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷🇮🇪🇨🇴🇸🇾
So glad to announce that the panel we proposed (with
@TomDivon
,
@MyriadMeanings
and
@noor_halabi
), titled "Exploring the contextual complexities of violence on digital platforms: Intersections, impacts, and solutions," was accepted for
#AoIR2023
See you in Philadelphia!
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Best post-pandemic conference at
#MaP22
; Brilliant scholars debating on the notion of Publics; In pics: giggling me, unpacking TikTok’s Playful Publics and their affective memetic behaviors; Front row:
@zizip
’s reassuring smile, and my conference lovers
@Manumanusen
@nadjaschaetz
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so excited to get physical with a bunch of exceptional critical thinkers at
#AoIR2023
in our ✨intimacies✨ session on Saturday, 21Oct, 10:30am; JOIN!
🔥Also excited about sharing a stage with the amazing work by
@ZoeGlatt
,
@TomDivon
,
@DaniJaraDent
,
@rebnoone
,
@arungapatchka
!
Thursday at 3.30 we'll talk 🛠️labour, 🖼️memes, 🗺️maps, 📱TikTok and 🍆dating apps!
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pls, excuse the world from this dreadful Israeli government; my heart is weighed down with deep shame; it's a ceaseless nightmare of inhumanity, stupidity, and atrocity 💔💔💔
Watch: Israeli ambassador to the UN
@giladerdan1
used a paper shredder to shred the UN charter on the podium of the UN general assembly ahead of a vote that will give new privileges to the Palestinians at the UN
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Reminder of our
#ICA23
dream panel centered around✨influencer creep✨ Alongside
@sophiehbishop
@stein_krysten
@drjessmaddox
&
@thechristinet
, I’ll speak about *influencer bullying* in times of conflict where influencers are forced by their followers to align with the state (🇮🇱)
✨✨Influencer Creep: Professionals as Influencers on Social Media✨✨Lead by a dream team of thinkers, our
#ica23
panel (
@ICAPopular
) will examine how influencer(ism) creep into everyday life as an expansion of micro-celebrity practices across social media platforms🤳🎭
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🕎 Hanukkah 🕎 usually religious attributes are not my cup of 🫖 but having your own home-made-clay-corgi-lookalike-Menorah def lit me up 🐶🕯️(artist: my talented mother-in-law; muse: my unproportional Alex)
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TikTok is turning Johnny Depp's trail into a meme performance; Happy to reflect in
@TIME
on TikTok’s playful regime manifested in user’s rush to memetic participation motivated by algorithmic amplification, while weaponizing humor for visual hijack of mainstream media narratives.
Why has the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial taken over TikTok? For
@TIME
I tried to answer, with the help of
@abbieasr
,
@fansumption
and
@TomDivon
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ECREA lovers! Cheak out our Pre-conference workshop on “Visual Politics & Protest - Current Methodological Challenges” (6-7 Oct, online); We're looking to experiment with innovative ways to analyze multimodality in times of complex visuality; Join us ✨
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War & Platforms: WhatsApp is one of the most used apps in Israel; its significance in both public and private spheres during the Israel-Gaza war is evident, with the platform serving as a lifeline for many; here's how WhatsApp shaped the events from the horrors of Oct. 7 onward:
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🗣️✨we are on
#ICA24
! with a kick-🍑panel on "Conceptualising Digital Visibility Negotiation for Social Change in Asia" by the unstoppable
@XeniaQianHuang
&
@Meg_Zeng
; join us on June 22 at 9:00AM at Coolangatta 3 (Star L3); WHO & WHAT? see 🧵below for all the visibility goodies:
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🚩🚩🚩Journalists often seek my expertise on TikTok's 'antisemitic algorithm,' asking me to review the latest reports on the Palestinian 'favoritism' & validate their findings; "It's due tomorrow - I need your approval and quotes." well, this isn't how it works! join me in a 🧵:
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(5) be a "nuances chaser"; i encourage you to explore sources such as the one by
@tiktokcultures
, housing the voices of many who emphasize subtleties, layers, and multiperspectivalism within a single platform; if you need a pal to co-explore with - DM me!
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in desperate times, Alex variants are essential:
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Excited by this SI (
@SocialMedia_Soc
) housing my first PhD paper! 🤩⭐️
@LaCerviTM
& I explore TikTok as a playful-centric platform that empowers Palestinians to amplify their visibility via the culture of
#challenges
🇵🇸; Visit the 🧵 for a link + highlights!
This Special Issue was edited by
@jinlee_media
&
@wishcrys
. Featuring articles by
@LaCerviTM
&
@TomDivon
;
@andy_xzhao
&
@wishcrys
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it was magic in the TikTok & Latin American Cultures event as we bridged languages and allowed many to share space & knowledge in English & Spanish; it's a LOT of work to build this bilingual tie, but worth every minute; thank you
@tiktokcultures
@wishcrys
@jinlee_media
for the🏠
Only 15 mins into this
@tiktokcultures
satellite event on Latin American Cultures on TikTok and I am already extremely impressed by the efforts towards accessibility through live bilingual translation via audio and on-screen text ✨
@DaniJaraDent
@TomDivon
@natalia_orregot
💓
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✨ TikTok and Social Movements 20Sep✨ I'm honored to take part in this thought-provoking symposium on behalf of
@tiktokcultures
; I'll share my reflections on the Memefication of the 🇮🇱 Israeli-Palestinian conflict 🇵🇸 on TikTok; Reg & Join!
#TikTokCultures
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#BriannaGhey
gave life one last try, but the evilness and ignorance of humanity have failed her; trans dehumanization and murder are a daily basis exhibition of our moral failures; rest in power, Brianna 💔🏳️⚧️💔🏳️⚧️
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#TikTok
and
#compassion
are in my research objectives for a while now; I'm star-struck by zoomers ability to ignite feelings and drive social change; Meet
@powerfullyisa
&
@brittdorton
who use TikTok's vernaculars for reframing
#disabilities
perceptions; Z-leadership anyone? 🦸♀️🤳
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(2) TikTok didn't emerge in isolation; the platform is part of a broader culture rooted in the legacy of other giants; when exploring TikTok's vernaculars, acknowledge the influence of the past, recognize the forces that shaped its cultural terrain & avoid reusing media terms >>
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@sophiehbishop
@ZoeGlatt
@rscarlets
@blakeplease
@TommyTrillo
@reynoldscj
@LillyBoxman
@TzlilSharon
@Asaf_Nissenb
@AvishaiGreen
@EeDanhi
@ludludlud
@s_lehuede
@katemiltner
@ysabelgerrard
@timhighfield
@sofya_glazunova
@AljoshaKarim
@bradyjay
captured the moment of struggle in which I tried very hard explaining the Dj that we are thirsty for ✨Rihanna-Ariana-Beyoncé✨ I’m pretty sure he wasn’t familiar with this holy trinity according to his face 😂
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After lunch: "Memories" session at
#AoIR2022
🌟💫Alongside amazing presenters -
@TaylorAnnabell
& Sarit Navon - I will discuss how TikTokers performed imaginative memories of the Holocaust, giving rise to a participatory memetic dialogue of death & trauma; Join us!
@eehammelburg
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(4) make a deliberate effort to uncover the voices that capture those nuances; avoid blindly adhering to those who are commonly cited; look beyond the big numbers on Google Scholar; explore diverse colors & cultural contexts, and trust that the authors' knowledge holds value >>
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I don't want a lot for Christmas,
@HujiComm
’s friends are all I need🎄🎅✨🥂🤶 Thank you dear Santa
@limor_shifman
for a magical night in Jerusalem, together with the sweet
@digital_values
reindeers:
@rscarlets
@blakeplease
@reynoldscj
@TommyTrillo
@AvishaiGreen
⛄🦌🙏🏽
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A new body of knowledge has been created today by my brilliant friend! ✨🫶 Thank you,
@ZoeGlatt
, for using your ethnographic research ethos to sensitively examine the critical tensions of precarity and inequality in the UK influencer industry ❤️
And just like that, IT'S DONE!!!!!!! Goodbye PhD, you've been good but I won't miss you.
🤩🥳🥰🥹🤓🤯😭✨💗🙌
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"If it weren't for Telegram, I wouldn't be here today" - this is how a platform is (still) playing a pivotal role in the massacre events that led to the loss of over 1,200 lives in Israel at the hands of inhuman terrorists; see🧵
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TikTok thrives in spreading misinformation due to: (1) virality being a value (2) personalization being deceptive (3) intimacy being manufactured; Proud to co-think with my insightful friends (
@m_boesch
&
@drjessmaddox
), in this
@VICE
piece (
@stokel
); Tnx
@tiktokcultures
for 🗣️!
Why do some people believe misinformation on TikTok? Earlier this year
@TomDivon
spoke about this credulity in short-form video content with
@stokel
in
@VICE
. Read the article here:
#TikTokCultures
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🗣️ our TikTok Shoah Commemoration & Education initiative is up for the DIGAMUS AWARD for digital museum projects;
@te_hartmann
& I helped memorials to onboard TikTok with Holocaust History content; we need your VOTE! 🙌🏽 simply click ⭐️ on the end of this:
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TikTok’s new feature for algo calibration promises users better control over their rabbit holes; I wonder (1) will *computational agency* help users keep their curatorial power over the fyp? (2) will it enable creators to bridge visibility thresholds? 👀
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Immensely proud to be part of the pioneer cohort of the Global Members in the
@tiktokcultures
; Check the network's new website, join and stay tuned for future projects; It’s a real treasure for scholars who are looking into TikTok's cultures 💝✨
Hi! We are proud to launch today our newly revamped TikTok Cultures Research Network website, now live at .
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join us in our online event on Nov8 (
@tiktokcultures
) as we delve into acute questions about TikTok & Latin American diaspora! 🤩✨
@DaniJaraDent
,
@natalia_orregot
& I will host a fantastic lineup of speakers, including creators, industry experts & critical thinkers. reg below!⬇️
Just 10 days for our Latin American Cultures and TikTok event on November 8, this is a satellite event of
@tiktokcultures
in collaboration with
@IKMZmediachange
register here 👇
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togther with an honorable gang of scholars from
@HujiComm
(Paul Frosh,
@Netakv
&
@LillyBoxman
), I presented some initial reflections on the *digital frontline* of the Israel-Hamas war on TikTok (full talk in the link); a glimpse of four main strategies:🧵
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