The microvideo platform TikTok has emerged as a popular hub for self-expression and
social activism, particularly for youth, but use of the platform's affective affordances to spread …

TikTok, a short‐video app featuring video content typically between 15 and 60 s long, has
become immensely popular around the world in the last few years. However, the worldwide …

This study investigates how COVID-19-related content, especially conspiracy theories, is
communicated on “dark platforms”—digital platforms that are less regulated and moderated …

This fifth edition of Visual Methodologies contains some significant differences from its
predecessor. The opening chapters have been reorganised to provide a clearer introduction …

This study looks at how mourning is expressed using the hashtag# grief on the social media
app TikTok using qualitative content analysis. In a dataset of 100 TikTok videos, this article …

The AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of
our lives and subjecting us to unprecedented surveillance and control. But at ground level …

In this article, we argue that, in an era of platformization of culture, social media users tend to
relate with brands through modalities that are more informed by platforms' affordances (ie …

Chat apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal are increasingly popular platforms for
communication. Their sometimes-closed nature and encryption affordances present …

This article uses qualitative empirical research to explore the ways that Instagram has
shaped both artistic labour and artistic practice. I draw from sociological perspectives on art …

Subjectification has been defined as the formation of the subject via discourses while social
media bundles audio-visual discourses that afford subjectification. However, what is meant …