As TikTok invests in short-form scripted series, it’s leaning into the same storytelling, advertising and viewing habits that defined television.
- Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Georgia
Snark subreddits act as a regulatory guardrail in an industry that has gone largely unchecked.
Family vlogging can seem benign, even heartwarming. But kids can’t consent to appear in these videos − and, in most states, have no claim to any of the earnings.
TikTok’s features for combining different users’ videos have sparked a wave of creativity. They’ve also formed an arena for political arguments and insults.
Some of the now-adult children of influencers are pushing back.
Today’s media landscape is a far cry from the days of Watergate. A media scholar looks at the challenge the Jan. 6 committee faces in getting the hearings to break through in the age of TikTok.
Elon Musk has an idea of what ails Twitter and what needs to be done to fix it. The problem is his assumptions are wrong.
How do a country and its citizens deal with the trauma of a deadly invasion by an enemy? Memes, cats and TikToks are emerging – most recently in the Ukraine war – as a way to cope with tragedy.
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