TY - JOUR
AU - Kasianenko, Kateryna
AB - Media International Australia 1–2 Book Review © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231155255 journals.sagepub.com/home/mia D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Jing Zeng & Patrik Wikström, TikTok: Creativity and Culture in Short Video. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2022; 251 pp. ISBN: 9781509548934, A$32.95. Launched in 2018, TikTok has become the fastest growing social media platform in the world. Despite privacy and security-related bans of the platform discussed or imposed in countries like India, Indonesia or the United States, TikTok grew beyond the light-hearted practices of its initial Gen Z user-base to reach wider demographics and overcome its image of a mere lip sync app. The book by Kaye and colleagues provides a comprehensive account of creative prac- tices on the platform and explores their interplay with TikTok’s functionality, governance and economy. In chapter 1, an outline of the evolution of short video platforms in China and the United States illustrates the continuity in technological features and user practices that led to TikTok’s rise. The next chapter explores the platform’s infrastructure, focusing on the recom- mender algorithm and other features that both shape users’ creativity and are shaped by user practices. Some readers of the book may be left wanting to 
TI - Book Review: TikTok: Creativity and Culture in Short Video
JF - Media International Australia
DO - 10.1177/1329878x231155255
DA - 2024-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-tiktok-creativity-and-culture-in-short-video-GunuvvV69k
SP - 147
EP - 148
VL - 193
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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