#JewishTikTok

Divon, Tom; Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Tobias

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“…However, the grievance narrative that characterizes Palestinian social media communications, with the help of TikTok’s Duet feature, is being translated into a parodic and satiric “answer” to the Israeli provocation presented in the original video. Parody, a dominant audiovisual dialect of TikTok users (Divon & Ebbrecht-Hartmann, 2022), is a creative work designed to imitate and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation (Tryon, 2008). In this challenge, Zein and many other co-creators not only ironically unmask the contradiction of using the song “Stand Up” as an anthem of freedom to defend a state of occupation, but they also use this trend to expose atrocities and children’s suffering using imagery of victimhood.…”

Section: “Stand Up”: Musical Duets As An Affective Activism Dialoguementioning

confidence: 99%

“…TikTok's rich set of vernaculars mobilizes users' participation in many socio-political activities, contextualized in the platform's playful and humorous cultures. For example, disabled users harness TikTok's vernacular of collaborative dance routines to resist ableism (Duval et al, 2021), and Jewish users use cynical attitude to counteract hate speech and fight religious stereotypes (Divon & Ebbrecht-Hartmann, 2022).…”

Section: Tiktok and Vernaculars Of Playfulnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges

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Divon

2023

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Palestinians have long been using social media as a tool for activism. Each platform provides unique socio-technological affordances that shape users’ communicative practices as networked publics. Focusing on the video-sharing platform TikTok, which has taken a “serious turn” in recent years, this article examines how Palestinian users performed playful acts of resistance during the escalation of violence between Palestinians and Israelis in May 2021. Applying a multimodal analysis to 500 TikTok videos posted during the conflict under #gazaunderattack, we identify three memetic templates (#challenge)—(1) lip-syncing, (2) duets, and (3) point-of-view—that unfold the ways TikTok’s design and its play-based affordances ignite affective streams of audiovisual content that render playful activism in times of conflict. Driven by TikTok’s culture of imitation and competition, playful activism enables the participation of ordinary users in political emerging events with the help of looping meme videos composed of collaborative, dialogic, and communal socio-technical functions. Playful activism transforms users’ ritualized performances into powerful political instruments on TikTok and makes democratic participation more relatable, tangible, and accessible to various audiences.

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Section: “Stand Up”: Musical Duets As An Affective Activism Dialoguementioning

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Section: Tiktok and Vernaculars Of Playfulnessmentioning

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Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges

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Divon

2023

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“…The availability of digital content related to genocides coming both from the institutional (e.g.Holocaust museums [33]) as well as non-institutional entities such as online influencers [34] or artists [25] resulted in the growing presence of genocide-related information on the online platforms. These platforms range from social media sites, such as Instagram [34] or TikTok [35], to web search engines, such as Google [36], to commerce-related platforms (e.g. TripAdvisor [37]).…”

Section: Ai-driven Ir Systems and Genocide-related Informationmentioning

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“…Makhortykh et al [36] examined how six web search engines curate visual information about the Holocaust and observed substantial differences in what aspects of the Holocaust are prioritised by the individual engines. Devon and Tobias-Hartmann [35] discussed the impact of the TikTok algorithm on the treatment of user-generated content, including content dealing with Holocaust denial, and found the tendency of the algorithm to suppress certain forms of resistance to antisemitic ideologies. Finally, Kansteiner [38] looked at how Holocaust institutions use IR systems associated with commercial social media sites (e.g.…”

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No AI After Auschwitz? Bridging AI and Memory Ethics in the Context of Information Retrieval of Genocide-Related Information

Makhortykh

2023

Studies in Computational Intelligence

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The growing application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of information retrieval (IR) affects different domains, including cultural heritage. By facilitating organisation and retrieval of large volumes of heritage-related content, AI-driven IR systems inform users about a broad range of historical phenomena, including genocides (e.g. the Holocaust).However, it is currently unclear to what degree IR systems are capable of dealing with multiple ethical challenges associated with the curation of genocide-related information. To address this question, this chapter provides an overview of ethical challenges associated with the human curation of genocide-related information using a three-part framework inspired by Belmont criteria (i.e. curation challenges associated with respect for individuals, beneficence and justice/fairness). Then, the chapter discusses to what degree the above-mentioned challenges are applicable to the ways in which AI-driven IR systems deal with genocide-related information and what can be the potential ways of bridging AI and memory ethics in this context.

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“…The term may have been applied retroactively to describe existing communities on the app, by communities themselves. In addition to the examples listed by Kaye et al (2022), scholars have also examined PetTok (pet TikTok), DocTok (doctor TikTok), GriefTok (grief and mourning TikTok), TeachTok (Teacher TikTok), and JewTok (Jewish TikTok), among others (Divon & Ebbrecht-Hartmann, 2022;Krutrök, 2021;Maddox, 2023;Stein et al, 2022;Vizcaíno-Verdú & Abidin, 2023).…”

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Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study

Maddox,

Gill

2023

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The term “side” has emerged to describe communities on the short-form video app TikTok. But what discursive work does the metaphor of side do to describe online communities? Through a case study with a textual analysis of the culture, technology, interface, and platform vernaculars present in reading fandom TikTok, BookTok, we explore how user practice and app features intertwine to establish sides of TikTok as relational, individualistically positioned, and exclusionary. In the process, we also present a cursory charting of the BookTok community. Unpacking the construction and implications of this metaphor matters because it shows the distinctive and exclusionary work done by the term side, not just across TikTok but within collectives as well. Who TikTok believes to be the typical member of a side has implications for discrimination and exclusion on the app, as it feeds into existing divisiveness in communities and the app’s tendency to suppress people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and disabled individuals.

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#JewishTikTok

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Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges

Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges

No AI After Auschwitz? Bridging AI and Memory Ethics in the Context of Information Retrieval of Genocide-Related Information

Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study

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