Curating hope in chronocracy

TikTok creation and the offline lives of young men from Pakistan in Greece

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6443502
AutoresRachael Lindsay (0000-0002-6529-2775, University of Cambridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume27
Fascículo7
Páginas4127-4142
Data de publicação2024-03-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14614448241235188
OpenAlexW4392551803
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas45

This article investigates the disparity between the everyday lives of young men from Pakistan living in Greece and the impressions created through their TikTok profiles. It asks how creating and curating TikTok content counters the multifarious temporal exclusions, or chronocracy, they experience as they work undocumented and attempt to stay under the radar of the authorities. By shedding light on these young men’s own explanations for their TikTok videos, I ultimately argue that TikTok offers a way for these young men to curate a hope that reflects the futures their families in Pakistan desired for their children, while also connecting them with other young men in similar situations. The article draws attention to how multifarious tensions and pressures can both be eased and played out in curating content online and suggests ethnography as a tool and temporality as an analytic in untangling these ambiguities

Internet privacy · Media studies · Online and offline · Political science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · ICT in Developing Communities · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · South Asian Cinema and Culture