TY - JOUR
T1 - Protesting the Protest Paradigm
T2 - TikTok as a Space for Media Criticism
AU - Literat, Ioana
AU - Boxman-Shabtai, Lillian
AU - Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - Though news representations of protest have been studied extensively, little is known about how media audiences critique such representations. Focusing on TikTok as a space for media criticism, this article examines how users employ the app to respond to representations of protest in mainstream news media. Content collected in the spring of 2021 illuminated two very distinct foci of discussion about news representations of protest: the Black Lives Matter movement and the Capitol riot. Our qualitative content analysis of TikTok videos and their related comments demonstrates how users employed TikTok’s creative affordances to dissect specific news representations, critique the media apparatus, and expand news narratives. These findings shed light on the complex role of TikTok as a platform for media criticism—one that can be used for both democratic and non-democratic ends.
AB - Though news representations of protest have been studied extensively, little is known about how media audiences critique such representations. Focusing on TikTok as a space for media criticism, this article examines how users employ the app to respond to representations of protest in mainstream news media. Content collected in the spring of 2021 illuminated two very distinct foci of discussion about news representations of protest: the Black Lives Matter movement and the Capitol riot. Our qualitative content analysis of TikTok videos and their related comments demonstrates how users employed TikTok’s creative affordances to dissect specific news representations, critique the media apparatus, and expand news narratives. These findings shed light on the complex role of TikTok as a platform for media criticism—one that can be used for both democratic and non-democratic ends.
KW - Black Lives Matter
KW - Capitol riot
KW - TikTok
KW - media criticism
KW - protest paradigm
KW - social media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85135237707&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/19401612221117481
DO - 10.1177/19401612221117481
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AN - SCOPUS:85135237707
SN - 1940-1612
VL - 28
SP - 362
EP - 383
JO - International Journal of Press/Politics
JF - International Journal of Press/Politics
IS - 2
ER -