[Air-L] TikTok, musical.ly, + "youthTube" practices

Elizabeth Bonsignore elizabeth.bonsignore at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 04:39:33 PST 2019


Hi all,

Regarding the questions about TikTok (formerly musical.ly). I don't know
about "science communication" on TikTok, but here's an Interaction Design
and Children (IDC) paper related to cyberbullying on TikTok, and children's
design ideas about how they might like to address it:

   - Badillo-Urquiola, K., Smriti, D., McNally, B., Golub, E., Bonsignore,
   E., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2019). Stranger Danger!: Social Media App Features
   Co-designed with Children to Keep Them Safe Online. Proceedings of the 18th
   ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 394–406.
   Boise, ID, USA: ACM. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3323133

Regarding the question about "kidfluencers" on video creation sites
(specifically, YouTube), here are a couple of related articles about youth
video-authoring practices (among several others, I suspect) from 2016:

   - Yarosh, S., Bonsignore, E., McRoberts, S., & Peyton, T. (2016).
   YouthTube: Youth Video Authorship on YouTube and Vine. Proceedings of the
   19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social
   Computing, 1423–1437. San Francisco, California, USA: ACM.
   https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2818048.2819961


   - McRoberts, S., Bonsignore, E., Peyton, T., & Yarosh, S. (2016). Do It
   for the Viewers!: Audience Engagement Behaviors of Young YouTubers.
   Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design
   and Children, 334–343. Manchester, United Kingdom: ACM.
   https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930676

Relatedly, just in case you haven't heard of nerdfighters, what about
nerdfighter-related
media authorship
<https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401171>
 ......?

best wishes,
beth
(long-time lurker/reader on air-l)

ebonsign at umd.edu || elizabeth.bonsignore at gmail.com
Assistant Research Scientist, PhD || Director, KidsTeam
@ebonsign (twitter)
Human-Computer Interaction Lab
College of Information Studies (Maryland's iSchool)
University of Maryland, College Park


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> Hello all,
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>
> great question, thanks for asking.
>
>
> I also just wanted to follow up on that: Is there any research available
> on TikTok in general so far? Could you point me to some? So far i found
> mainly journalistic writings, such as this interesting one:
>
>
>
> https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/its-time-to-pay-serious-attention-to-tiktok/
>
>
> I am particularly interested in science communication via video sites such
> as TikTok - any work available on this topic?
>
>
> Another thing that I would like to find out something about is the issue
> of child influencer ("kidfluencers") on social media such as YouTube,
> Instagram, TikTok etc.
>
> Any interesting literature out there on this issue?
>
>
> Many thanks and best wishes,
>
> Joachim
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> Hello all,
>
> Anyone doing research on Tik Tok and cyberbullying?
> Do you all have any links to articles on the latest on cyberbullying?
> Thank you.
>
> Kind regards,
> Rachael Espinet
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> There is some research on Musical.ly, which was bought by ByteDance in
> November 2017 and rebranded as Tik Tok. Tik Tok has more "memes" as my
> 11-year-old describes them (jokes, reenactments of skits to a fixed
> soundtrack) whereas Musical.ly had more of an emphasis on lipsyncing
> (reenactments of lipsynced songs to a fixed soundtrack) but the basic
> affordances of the platform are more or less the same.
>
> ?im?ek, Burcu, Crystal Abidin, and Megan Lindsay Brown. ?Musical.ly and
> Microcelebrity Among Girls?. In Microcelebrity Around the Globe, edited by
> Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown, 47?56. Emerald Publishing Limited,
> 2018. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-749-820181004.
>
> Rettberg, Jill Walker. ?Hand Signs for Lip-Syncing: The Emergence of a
> Gestural Language on Musical.ly as a Video-Based Equivalent to Emoji?.
> Social Media + Society 3, no. 4 (24 October 2017).
> https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117735751.
>
> Jill
>
>
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> ?On 04/11/2019, 09:42, "Air-L on behalf of Allgaier, Joachim" <
> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of
> joachim.allgaier at humtec.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>
>     great question, thanks for asking.
>
>
>     I also just wanted to follow up on that: Is there any research
> available on TikTok in general so far? Could you point me to some? So far i
> found mainly journalistic writings, such as this interesting one:
>
>
>
> https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/its-time-to-pay-serious-attention-to-tiktok/
>
>
>     I am particularly interested in science communication via video sites
> such as TikTok - any work available on this topic?
>
>
>     Another thing that I would like to find out something about is the
> issue of child influencer ("kidfluencers") on social media such as YouTube,
> Instagram, TikTok etc.
>
>     Any interesting literature out there on this issue?
>
>
>     Many thanks and best wishes,
>
>     Joachim
>
>
>     --
>
>     Dr. Joachim Allgaier
>     Senior Researcher
>     Human Technology Center (HumTec)
>     Chair of Society and Technology
>     RWTH Aachen University
>     Theaterplatz 14 /Raum 235
>     52062 Aachen /Germany
>
>     Twitter: @JoachimAllgaier
>     Web: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joachim_Allgaier
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>     Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von Rachael
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>     Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Oktober 2019 16:27:20
>     An: Air-L at listserv.aoir.org
>     Betreff: [Air-L] Tik Tok
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     Anyone doing research on Tik Tok and cyberbullying?
>     Do you all have any links to articles on the latest on cyberbullying?
>     Thank you.
>
>     Kind regards,
>     Rachael Espinet
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> According to Luca, there is a week left to apply for this. Note the further
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> Dear colleagues, (apologies for cross-posting)
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> It is a great pleasure to announce the second edition of the *CyberBRICS
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