[Air-L] Tik Tok

[Jill Walker Rettberg]

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.

Şimşek, 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



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
    
    
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    Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von Rachael Espinet <raesay2407 at gmail.com>
    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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