Dear colleagues, The TikTok Cultures Research Network is pleased to announce its fourth virtual event TikTok and Social Movements < https://tiktokcultures.com/tiktok-and-social-movements/> on 20 September organized by founding members Dr Jin Lee, Associate Professor Crystal Abidin, and Dr Bondy Valdovinos Kaye. The half-day event will take place via Zoom on 20 September at 1200-1700 (GMT+8). The event will showcase emergent research on the potentials, promises, pitfalls, and parameters of various movements on TikTok. The event will feature a keynote delivered by Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández (Queensland University of Technology) <https://tiktokcultures.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/matamoros-fernandez-bio.pdf> and four sessions by 16 panelists from Asia, Middle East, Europe, Africa, and North America. We invite students and researchers in academia, professionals from media industries and social media industries, and members of the general public to attend this event. This event is free but registration is required. Please register here < https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UH05DYx8S7WDGRuxn0s8xw>. Please find a programme for the event here < https://tiktokcultures.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/tiktok-and-social-movemen...
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Recordings of the whole event will be made available on tiktokcultures.com following the event. Click to download the event poster in color < https://tiktokcultures.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/poster.jpg>. This event was brought to you by TikTok <https://tiktokcultures.com/> Cultures Research Network <https://tiktokcultures.com/> and supported by Faculty of Humanities (Curtin University), <https://humanities.curtin.edu.au/> Centre for Culture and Technology (Curtin University) <https://ccat.curtin.edu.au/> -- Jin Lee, PhD Research Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University