Young people and TikTok use in Australia
Digital Geographies of Care in Popular Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Mclean (0000-0003-0975-3925, Macquarie University, corresponding author), Clare Southerton (0000-0002-5812-9785, La Trobe University), D Lupton (0000-0003-2658-4430, UNSW Sydney) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 795-813 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2023.2230943 |
| OpenAlex | W4382542773 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 63 |
The short-form video-sharing app TikTok is the fastest growing social media platform globally, particularly among young people, and the app is attracting significant academic interest. However, the voices of young people have been mostly absent from these debates. This article offers a qualitative study of how young people are using TikTok to make care-full digital worlds in and around Sydney, Australia, drawing on interviews with sixteen young people and bringing together literatures on geographies of care, digital geographies and TikTok practices. Research participants identified care-related themes in these interviews, including that they enjoyed using the app to nurture relationships, found that it facilitated greater awareness of their relative privilege, and provided support and opportunities to express themselves. These practices proved important forms of connection and self-care during COVID-19-related periods of physical isolation and disruption to everyday routines. But a lack of care was also evident, from other users and the app itself, suggesting tensions in how care is negotiated in this digital space. Young people articulated structural problems with the app and offered constructive remedies that are practical and feasible
Constructive · Internet privacy · Isolation (microbiology · Media studies · Nature versus nurture · Political science · Privilege (computing · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Representation of Tiktok in u.s. News After the No Tiktok on Government Devices Act
Adolescent flourishing in a digitally connected world
Messy digitality
Progress, inevitability and agency
Staying with and inbetween hostility
‘It was too much technology … I chucked my laptop across the room
Tiktokers indígenas en Latinoamérica
Digital geographies of mundane violence
Children's and young people's digital geographies
Technology mediated care as infrastructure
Weaving care praxis to mediate glitches in Indigenous digital land management in northern Australia
Reading latent values and priorities in TikTok's community guidelines for children
Pushing against the panic
Un-making and re-making boundaries
Digital landscapes of care
How care infrastructures support distance and connection in community welfare organisations
I feel like I get something else to think about
Talking Environment on TikTok
(Em)placing the popular in Cultural Geography
Cultures of Covid-19
I Had Time to Do My Research, Had Time to Think and Educate Myself
Algorithms of Oppression
Algorithmic Folk Theories and Identity
Everyday negotiations in managing presence
Networked intimacy. Intimacy and friendship among Italian Facebook users
Mapping Internet Celebrity on TikTok
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
Making place beyond the city through the lens of digital media
Performing Social Media
Walter Benja-Memes
The co-evolution of two Chinese mobile short video apps
Hold the phone! Culturally credible research ‘with’ young people
(Cyber)Bullying in schools – when bullying stretches across cON/FFlating spaces
Extending the Internet meme
The self—harmed, visualized, and reblogged
Digitised caring intimacies
In-between child’s play and teenage pop culture
Young people, social media and connective action
If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right now’
Research Note
Race and feminist care ethics
Exploring the importance of inter-departmental women’s friendship in geography as resistance in the neoliberal academy
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences
That’s not necessarily for them’
Visibility and Vulnerability on Instagram
Platform urbanism, smartphone applications and valuing data in a smart city
The geographies of difference in conflating digital and offline spaces of encounter
Pedagogy, post-coloniality and care-full encounters in the classroom
Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world
Decolonising strategies and neoliberal dilemmas in a tertiary institution
The uncomfortable politics of care and conflict
Digital geographies of austerity
Can TikTok promote a healthier ageing paradigm? A case study of older digital celebrities from China
Place Geography and the Ethics of Care
Geography and ethics
Are you sure you’re not gay
Geography and Ethics
Teachers of TikTok
Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the Covid-19 crisis
Cities of care
Feeling through the screen
Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
Using Skype to Mother
It died once at playgroup, I didn't know what to do
Cultural geography going viral
Indigenous Digital Life
Why's Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media
Showing They Care (Or Don't)
Chronic Media Worlds
The thing-power of the Facebook assemblage
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |