Hey Digital Culture explorers! Check out the recent book publication from Routledge - "TikTok Cultures in the United States" - edited by Trevor Boffone. This book delves into the role of TikTok in US popular culture and analyzes the platform's growing body of subcultures. Comprising contributions from scholars across various disciplines, the chapters in this book create novel analytical frameworks to examine TikTok's impact within a distinct context, exploring issues such as gender, sexuality, feminism, race and ethnicity, and wellness. By analyzing TikTok's influence and intersecting with those topics, the book offers valuable insights into how the platform is shaped by users' subcultures and, in turn, shapes users' understandings of their contemporary socio-political environment. This book can be a valuable resource for students and scholars seeking a comprehensive and accessible understanding of TikTok's complex role within the digital landscape. Currently, the book is being sold with a 20% discount available (enter the code FLE22 at checkout on https://www.routledge.com/TikTok-Cultures-in-the-United-States/Boffone/p/boo...). You may want to consider introducing this book to your institution and recommending it for purchase. Unfortunately, the book is not OA, but If you are interested in accessing a particular chapter, I would be happy to connect you with the relevant authors (email me at: tom.divon@mail.huji.ac.il) *Table of content: * Introduction: The Rise of TikTok in US Culture \ Trevor Boffone *Section I: Race and Ethnicity on TikTok* 1. The D’Amelio Effect: TikTok, Charli D’Amelio, and the Construction of Whiteness \ Trevor Boffone 2. Digital Blackface and the Troubling Intimacies of TikTok Dance Challenges \ Cienna Davis 3. TikTok For Us By Us: Black Girlhood, Joy, and Self Care \ Wendyliz Martinez 4. #JewishTikTok: The JewToks’ Fight Against Antisemitism \ Tom Divon and Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann *Section II: Gender and Sexuality on TikTok* 5. Watching TikTok, Feeling Feminism: Intergenerational Flows of Feminist Knowledge \ Shauna Pomerantz and Miriam Field 6. "Do you want to form an alliance with me?": Glimpses of Utopia in the Works of Queer Women and Non-Binary Creators on TikTok \ Claudia Skinner 7. Trans TikTok: Sharing Information and Forming Community \ Elle Rochford and Zachary Palmer *Section III: TikTok (Sub)Cultures* 8. Hocus-Pocus: WitchTok Education for Baby Witches \ Jane Barnette 9. Wellness TikTok: Morning Routines, Eating Well, and Getting Ready to be "That Girl" \ Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero 10. Hype it Up: US Latinx Theater on TikTok \ Elena Machado Sáez *Afterword* TikTok Industrial Complex; or Twenty-first Century Transculturative Creative Critical Collaboratory? \ Frederick Luis Aldama -- *Tom Divon* *Media & Culture Researcher* Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya Tel: +972-547-532681 [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/TomDivon>[image: Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/divon.tom/>[image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/tom.divon> *Publications*: Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607>. Playful Publics on TikTok: The Memetic Israeli-Palestinian War of #CHALLENGE <https://www.dropbox.com/s/0r6d8ctd3m4xgrk/PLAYFUL_PUBLICS_ON_TIKTOK.pdf?dl=0> . #JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism <https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=JewishTikTok_The_JewToks_Fight_against.pdf> . Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds? <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-learn-about-the-holocaust-in-60-seconds-on-tiktok/>