Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: The article dwells on the videos on the Internet platform TikTok during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.I argue that the structural and pragmatic features of these video clips can be described via the analytical concepts of "disaster lore" and "newslore".The coronavirus infection in its representations on TikTok is endowed with agency, the problems of implementing quarantine measures are unfolded upon through jokes and sharing of the new experience of living in self-isolation becomes the main folklore pattern.The content analysis conducted in this article demonstrates that TikTok can be considered a new specific space where newslore exists, and therefore, folklore acts as a type of cultural communication.TikTok itself is a cultural resource that symbolically builds a distinct community.This article is a translation of: Д.И.Тукина.Ньюслор:
Source: Etnograficheskoe obozrenie
Author: Тукина Дарья И.
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4206468550