Sino-Cal realism: TikTok as a medium between new market dynamics: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”.

The meteoric rise of TikTok, the video-sharing app owned by Chinese technology giant ByteDance, is already being hailed as a potent platform for political expression, but this is complicated by its economic and geopolitical entanglements, namely the ongoing power rivalry between China and the US, as...

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Autor principal: Poon, Jessica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9684904/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s42984-022-00055-4
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description The meteoric rise of TikTok, the video-sharing app owned by Chinese technology giant ByteDance, is already being hailed as a potent platform for political expression, but this is complicated by its economic and geopolitical entanglements, namely the ongoing power rivalry between China and the US, as well as TikTok’s adherence to a business bottom line. This short commentary aims to unpack some of the structural issues which contextualise TikTok’s particular brand of political ambivalence ahead of designations of the platform as a meaningful site for political participation.
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spelling pubmed-96849042022-11-28 Sino-Cal realism: TikTok as a medium between new market dynamics: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”. Poon, Jessica Digi War Commentary The meteoric rise of TikTok, the video-sharing app owned by Chinese technology giant ByteDance, is already being hailed as a potent platform for political expression, but this is complicated by its economic and geopolitical entanglements, namely the ongoing power rivalry between China and the US, as well as TikTok’s adherence to a business bottom line. This short commentary aims to unpack some of the structural issues which contextualise TikTok’s particular brand of political ambivalence ahead of designations of the platform as a meaningful site for political participation. Springer International Publishing 2022-11-21 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9684904/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s42984-022-00055-4 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Sino-Cal realism: TikTok as a medium between new market dynamics: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”.
title Sino-Cal realism: TikTok as a medium between new market dynamics: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”.
title_full Sino-Cal realism: TikTok as a medium between new market dynamics: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”.
title_fullStr Sino-Cal realism: TikTok as a medium between new market dynamics: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”.
title_full_unstemmed Sino-Cal realism: TikTok as a medium between new market dynamics: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”.
title_short Sino-Cal realism: TikTok as a medium between new market dynamics: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”.
title_sort sino-cal realism: tiktok as a medium between new market dynamics: "in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”.
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