Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that 'listens' and 'creates a safe space'.
This research explores how and why TikTok users from Turkey choose to make TikTok content. Drawing from the concept of polymedia and debates on digital connection and disconnection, which center on individuals' choices whether to connect or detach from digital media based on the affordances they off...
| Publicado en: | Media, Culture & Society Vol. 44; no. 8; pp. 1490 - 1508 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
Nov2022
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