Tom Divon

Tom Divon is an ethnographer of user-platform interactions, focusing on creator culture, platform affordances, and user-generated content. His research examines the socio-political subcultures of platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, with a focus on intersecting domains: Palestinian, Israeli, and Jewish content creators; platform governance and content moderation; and the role of play and trauma in activism within war zones. In addition, Divon’s work explores how artificial intelligence is mythologized, exploited, and weaponized against activists within digital cultures.