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- Divon, Tom, et al.
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Playful trauma : TikTok creators and the use of the platformed body in times of war
- 2024
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Ingår i: Social Media + Society. - : Sage Publications. - 2056-3051. ; 10:3, s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 this article, we examine 97 videos produced by 12 Ukrainian and Russian TikTok creators in response to the 2022 war in Ukraine. We focus on the playful embodiment of trauma using digital ethnography, analyzing creators’ practices and their interconnected memetic communication on TikTok. We identified the use of play through three dynamic practices where platforms, bodies, and trauma converge: (1) the utilization of POV (point-of-view) aesthetic in shareable templates to convey the realities of war from engaging first-person perspectives; (2) the incorporation of dance as a means of embodied creative expression and amplification of trauma; and (3) the harnessing of platform features to facilitate whimsical dialogues with followers about life under war. We argue that playfulness is entrenched in and enacted through platform vernacular modes, driving creators to forge communal ties during adversities and shape the ongoing representation of trauma and its accelerated visibility in digital spaces. We present the concept of playful trauma as a framework for understanding the structural dissonance that arises when creators utilize their bodies alongside platform-specific humorous, ironic, or subversive dialects to perform and amplify the gravity of trauma. This tension provides a unique space for creators to convert their shared experiences of grief and resilience into participatory coping mechanisms. In doing so, they subject and harness their playful platformed body as both the medium and the message, documenting injustices, bearing witness, and galvanizing crowds into action during times of war.
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- Divon, Tom, et al.
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TikTok(ing) Ukraine : meme-based expressions of cultural trauma on social media
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Ingår i: Media and the war in Ukraine. - New York : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 9781433199301 - 9781433199318 - 9781433199295 ; , s. 119-136
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As digital media pervades every aspect of our lives, the ways in which we record, view and respond to wars are being shaped by these technologies. Within our deeply mediatised society (Couldry and Hepp 2017), in times of crisis, individ- uals turn to social media to tell their stories of trauma and grief (Eriksson 2016; Leaver and Highfield 2018). This allows the specific realities of war, trauma and collective suffering to be witnessed, shared, seen and remixed. This chapter delves into the war in Ukraine as it is depicted and mediated through the lens of one of the most prominent Ukrainian TikTok users of 2022, Valeria Shashe- nok (@valerisssh). Through this example, we examine how ongoing cultural trauma and its audiovisual representations are presented on digital platforms. In particular, we explore how users leverage TikTok’s technological features, such as duets, stitches and the LIVE, to create meme-based templates for com- municating the realities of warfare, showing how these templates shape digital expressions of trauma. Expanding previous work on cultural trauma, collec- tive grief, and history in digital spaces (Abidin, 2019; Divon and Ebbrecht- Hartmann 2022; Eriksson 2016; 2018; Eriksson Krutrök 2021; Leaver & High- field 2018), this chapter places emphasis on the role of audiovisual memes on TikTok as templates for war storytelling in Ukraine in 2022.
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- Eriksson Krutrök, Moa, Associate Professor
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TikTok memes of grief : playfulness and dark humour in youth digital grief narratives
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Routledge international handbook of child and adolescent grief in contemporary contexts. - : Routledge. - 9781032118239 - 9781032118307 - 9781003221692 ; , s. 286-294
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Through social media, youth can reflect on their relationship with a deceased family member or friend and facilitate an attachment with the deceased in meaningful ways (Williams & Merten 2009). Social media may fill a role in sharing tributes, memorialisations and advocacy for those who have died. The content produced as part of these mourning practices may look different on various platforms. On TikTok, for instance, textual, audio, video, photographic and musical elements can be combined to share grief experiences or connections with others. In this chapter, I focus on the role of playfulness in grief expressions on TikTok within the framework of memefication and connectivity among youth in socially mediated spaces. Of TikTok's 1 billion monthly active users, roughly two-thirds of its user base is between 10 to 29 years old (Wallaroo Media, 2022). This high concentration of youths on the platform indicates a necessity to understand its user base further, especially in communities dealing with existential issues.
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- Lindgren, Simon, 1974-, et al.
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Researching digital media and society
- 2024
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- We live in an increasingly digitised society. In an age of digital identities, rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence and ever more sophisticated software available, our methods for researching digital media must be flexible and adaptable. This book will help you to understand why researchers in this field choose and use particular research methods, equipping you to put these methods into practice across the whole range of undergraduate media courses. This book shows you how research methods can help us to make sense of the myriad of information we encounter online every day, from Tiktok influencers to viral Twitter posts. Complete with case studies in each chapter, the book covers both well-established methods, such as network analysis, and cutting-edge ones, such as interface analysis. It provides a crucial foundation for research in digital media, demonstrating the scope and potential of these tools. The book adopts an easy-to-navigate structure, taking you through specific methods in a systematic way. It shows you examples of classic uses of each method, and directs you towards further resources after each chapter.
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- Vikøren Andersen, Ida, et al.
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Influencer responsibility in practice : The role of instagram debates for individualised politics during the covid-19 pandemic
- 2024
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Ingår i: European Journal of Cultural Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 1367-5494 .- 1460-3551.
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- During the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments discouraged citizens from travelling both within and outside the nation in an effort to mitigate the spread of the virus. Still, some Scandinavian influencers, whose livelihood often depends on producing aesthetic travel content, chose to go abroad, which led to criticism from both followers and others. While ethical debates over air travel have taken place in social media for a long time, the specific conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions, combined with the centrality of travel within influencer culture, created new controversies and discussions on several influencers’ Instagram accounts in Norway and Sweden. In this article, we use digital ethnography and multimodal discourse analysis to examine discursive negotiations of different moral positions in regards to long-haul travel, the political role and responsibility of influencers, as well as how appeals to solidarity and individualised responsibility were performed and contested in socially mediated spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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