The New Adult on the Block: Daily Active Users of TikTok Compared to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram During the COVID-19 Crisis in Belgium

Hellemans, Johan; Willems, Kim; Brengman, Malaika

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76520-0_10

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“…This study was conducted online with users of a dedicated Incel forum, Incel.co. It is possible that the users of this forum are systematically different from the general Incel population, in the same way as TikTok users tend to be younger and more urban than users of Facebook or Twitter (Hellemans et. al, 2021).…”

Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incel Ideology, Radicalization and Mental Health

Moskalenko¹,

González²,

Kates³

et al. 2022

JICW

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Incels (involuntarily celibates) are an online community of men who feel disenfranchised because they are unable to find a romantic and sexual partner. Incels tend to blame society for placing too much value in physical appearance and for endowing women with too much power in mate selection, a grievance that sometimes translates into violent misogyny. Mass-casualty Incel attacks have led the security services in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. to classify Incels as a violent extremist threat. However, little empirical research is available to inform the understanding of Incels, or to qualify their potential danger to the public. Filling this gap, this study presents an important empirical datum by reaching beyond media headlines and online activity, to assess Incel ideology, mental health, and radical intentions through in-depth surveys of 274 active Incels. Most Incels in our study reported mental health problems and psychological trauma of bullying or persecution. Incel ideology was only weakly correlated with radicalization, and ideology and radicalization were differentially correlated with mental health measures. Most Incels in the study rejected violence. The discussion considers implications of these findings for detection, policing, and non-criminal interventions focused on the Incel community.

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Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incel Ideology, Radicalization and Mental Health

Moskalenko¹,

González²,

Kates³

et al. 2022

JICW

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“…Recent studies on TikTok usage during COVID-19 (Feldkamp, 2021;Hellemans et al, 2021;Kennedy, 2020;Southwick et al, 2021) show that young people turned to TikTok to "binge-scroll" as a distraction (Kendall, 2021) and as a general forum, for example, to share and communicate their experiences and opinions about online learning situations in social distancing (Literat, 2021), or that trending videos during the pandemic largely featured users' humorous or sarcastic commentaries as documented experiences of everyday pandemic life (Unni & Weinstein, 2021).…”

Section: The Popularity Of Tiktok During Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

How TikTok served as a platform for young people to share and cope with lived COVID-19 experiences

Klug

Evans²,

Kaufman³

2023

MedieKultur

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The short-video app TikTok saw a large increase in usage during the COVID-19 lockdown because it provided entertainment, distraction, and social interaction based on video content engagement. We present results from an interview study with 28 U.S. TikTok users on how they shared and engaged with lived pandemic experiences on TikTok to cope with and socialize after the U.S. imposed its first lockdown. Participants had already established TikTok as a peer community platform on which sharing lived experiences felt appropriate. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, participants started to look for TikTok videos of shared lived pandemic experiences to interact with others when physical interaction was made impossible. We find that TikTok videos facilitated communication and parasocial interaction based on known audiovisual styles. Participants were able to communicate through video creation based on shared ways of presenting short-video content during COVID-19 physical distancing.

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“…Recent studies on TikTok usage during COVID-19 (Feldkamp, 2021;Hellemans, Willems, & Brengman, 2021;Kennedy, 2020;Southwick et al, 2021) show that young people turned to TikTok to "binge-scroll" as a distraction (Kendall, 2021), and as a general forum, for example, to share and communicate their experiences and opinions about online learning situations in social distancing (Literat, 2021), or that trending videos during the pandemic largely featured users' humorous or sarcastic commentaries as documented experiences of everyday pandemic life (Unni & Weinstein, 2021).…”

Section: The Popularity Of Tiktok During Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

How TikTok Served as a Platform for Young People to Share and Cope with Lived COVID-19 Experiences

Klug

Kaufman²

2022

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The short-video app TikTok saw a large increase in usage during the COVID-19 lockdown because it provided entertainment, distraction and social interaction based on video content engagement. We present results from an interview study with 28 U.S. TikTok users on how they shared and engaged with lived pandemic experiences on TikTok to cope with and socialize after the first lockdown in the U.S. Participants had already established TikTok as a peer community platform on which sharing lived experiences felt appropriate, and was heard by others with similar experiences. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, participants started to look for TikTok videos of shared lived pandemic experiences to interact with others when physical interaction was made impossible. We find TikTok videos facilitated communication and parasocial interaction based on known audiovisual styles. Participants were able to communicate through video creation based on shared ways of presenting short-video content during COVID-19 physical distancing.

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The New Adult on the Block: Daily Active Users of TikTok Compared to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram During the COVID-19 Crisis in Belgium

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Incel Ideology, Radicalization and Mental Health

Incel Ideology, Radicalization and Mental Health

How TikTok served as a platform for young people to share and cope with lived COVID-19 experiences

How TikTok Served as a Platform for Young People to Share and Cope with Lived COVID-19 Experiences

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