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Making a Difference- Can TikTok Influencers create more change than Accredited Experts?
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chloestein
Abstract This essay explores TikTokโs role in driving social change through influencers, comparing their effectiveness to accredited experts. TikTokโs rise has promoted activism, empowering millions to engage in global issues. Influencers, with their authenticity and reliability, create significant impact and surpass traditional experts in audience reach and engagement. From womenโs rights to #BlackLivesMatter, TikTok campaigns…
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Social media platforms have emerged as powerful tools for raising awareness about political issues on a global level
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20543556@student.curtin.edu.au
Abstract Introducing new technologies has created platforms for people to develop a voice for their opinions and beliefs. Platforms have developed a tool in which individuals have the power of freedom of speech or, in other words, a point of view that they can share on their own with anyone at any time. This conference…
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How yes and no supporters used social media to influence the Indigenous Voice to Parliament vote
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El Ashcroft
Introduction Both yes and no supporters used social media to influence the 2023 Indigenous Voice to Parliament vote through networked publics, hashtag activism and clicktivism. Throughout the Indigenous Voice to Parliament campaign, networked publics were created to engage the public. According to Ojala and Ripatti-Torniainen (2024), the concept of networked publics first appeared in academic…
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TikTok’s Influence on Body Image and Self-Perception in the Digital Age
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leona.barnes
ABSTRACT Since 2019, the online content sharing app TikTok has continued to grow astronomically with users who both create and observe content in the form of videos and photos. The topic of this paper is to address how content with seemingly positive intentions often lead people into spirals of body related issues including body dysmorphia,…
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How has TikTok changed the way people participate and engage in spreading awareness on Racial Issues?
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Em
Abstract: Like other social media platforms, TikTok is a third place allowing individuals to freely speak on their beliefs and ideologies, this has transformed the way people advocate and voice beliefs on particular racial issues such as Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate. Awareness of racial issues is encouraged by the network public within…

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