Talk by Associate Professor Amelia Johns (UTS) “‘I guess I do get a lot of the brown community on it…That's what we call ourselves’: Connecting with algorithmic community on TikTok”, as part of a Symposium on Multicultural Algorithms in Australia held at the University of Sydney on Friday 20 September 2024.
Much of the discourse around platform algorithms is framed by concerns that user agency is limited by an algorithmic “black box” which personalises content and prevents exposure to a diversity of ideas, considered essential to democracy. But in research conducted over a two-year period with diasporic young people from Victoria and NSW, Amelia Johns and colleagues found that young people exhibited different types of complex agency in working with recommendation algorithms on TikTok and other platforms. Accordingly, they ultimately argue that these forms of agency and labour are what shapes Tik Tok’s “brown community” into a space of support, informal learning, culture shaping trends, identity, and activism.
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