Social media, self-harm, and suicide: we should be promoting research informed decision making about how and what to regulate

House, Allan

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“…However, as Gershon (2011) points out in their article on neoliberal agency on social media, TikTok is a corporate product mired with problematic neoliberal demands on users to fashion themselves as businesses through the circuits of capital. These metrics fuel the analytic-driven algorithm towards optimum profits for the company, meaning algorithms are tuned for maximum engagement, at times leading to misinformation and a lack of oversight or policy capable of protecting users from bullying, and potential for self-harm (House 2022). This is not to say that TikTok and other social media can be summed up solely as entities reproducing neoliberal ideologies, or their own business-centric intentions in gaining advertising revenue and data mining.…”

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Do I Belong on TikTok? Algorithimography and Self-Making

Cerretani

2023

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Building on works in digital anthropology, belonging, and self-making, this article delves into physiological aspects of digital lifeworlds. Through collaborative ethnography the author worked with their sibling and the TikTok Ethnography Collective (TEC) to explore TikTok’s utility as a site of self-discovery and learning. From the processes which unfold during the collaboration, a fledgling methodology of algorithmography emerges and is developed through the article. The use of digital ethnographic methods mediated the relationship between the author and their sibling, opening an exploration into self-making practices on TikTok. Building on recent literature around TikTok and self-making, (Bimo and Bhandari 2022), and through “Tik-Talks'' with the author’s sister which centre on multiple forms of diagnoses with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (HEDS), this article examines TikTok’s capacity and shortcomings as a place where one can learn to belong against the grain of neoliberal and capitalist cultures.

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Do I Belong on TikTok? Algorithimography and Self-Making

Cerretani

2023

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Social media, self-harm, and suicide: we should be promoting research informed decision making about how and what to regulate

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Do I Belong on TikTok? Algorithimography and Self-Making

Do I Belong on TikTok? Algorithimography and Self-Making

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