Palestinians have long been using social media as a tool for activism. Each platform
provides unique socio-technological affordances that shape users' communicative practices …

Since its acquisition and rebranding in 2018, TikTok has become one of the fastest growing
platforms in the world. Moreover, it's the first Chinese-developed platform to find mainstream …

This study explores the subculture of teachers and teaching on TikTok, known in the
vernacular as 'TeachTok', through a daily walkthrough method, a digital ethnography …

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 …

Palestinians, like many other diasporic communities, have, on the one hand, articulated their
personal experiences and their subjectivities through digitalized channels. On the other …

This special issue, together with this position paper that accompanies it, aims at providing a
comprehensive framework to address this issue, introducing and theorizing the concept of …

We examine how TikTok expanded into the South Korean landscape by utilizing K-pop as a
vehicle, thus demonstrating the theory of 'platformed glocalization'. After several failed …

During times of crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic, digital platforms are under public
scrutiny to guarantee users' online safety and wellbeing. Following inconsistencies in how …

Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, TikTok has emerged as a pivotal platform, where
creators utilize its compressed video formats to mediate the harsh realities of war zones. In …

TikTok has emerged as a powerful platform for the dissemination of mis-and disinformation
about the war in Ukraine. During the initial three months after the Russian invasion in …