Dear lovely AoIR colleagues We are delighted to invite you to the TikTok Creators and Digital Economies Symposium on October 6, 2023. This symposium is a satellite event of the TikTok Research Cultures Network <https://tiktokcultures.com/> in collaboration with the Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub <https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at-lcc/digital-cultures-and-economies-research-hub> . - Date: October 6, 2023 - Times: - 8:00 - 16:40 (UK time / GMT) - 16:00 - 24:40 (AWST) - 4:00 - 12:40 (EDT) - Location: Online - Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tiktok-creators-and-digital-economies-symposi... <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tiktok-creators-and-digital-economies-symposium-tickets-719077198257?aff=oddtdtcreator> Free and open to all.

From new dance challenges to instantly recognisable songs, TikTok is often attributed with producing new global trends. Merging short form video, popular and original music, hashtags, comments, and participatory features like stitching and duets, TikTok provides a platform for ordinary users to consume, create, play and participate in public conversations.

Creators benefit from new kinds of visibility and affective economies, yet also complain of shadow bans, seemingly arbitrary limitations on views, and algorithmic personalisation and circulation of content. The intersection between TikTok culture and creator economies raise big questions about emerging features of platformed economies. While TikTok’s niche creator practices share common features across other social media and digital platforms (Hardy 2022, Sujon 2021), TikTok’s specific approaches to monetisation and affective entrepreneurialism raises questions about what is distinct on TikTok for creator economies. The plenary discussion features leading scholars in the field: - Thomas Poell <https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html#Profile> (University of Amsterdam), Institutional Perspectives on TikTok and Cultural Production - Francesca Sobande <https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/sobandef> (University of Cardiff), Racial Capitalism and Digital Economies of "Intersectionality" The symposium is a satellite event of the TikTok Research Cultures Network <https://tiktokcultures.com/>, in collaboration with the Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub <https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at-lcc/digital-cultures-and-economies-research-hub>. It brings together current work which opens up these dynamics, examining emerging forms of cultural production and also their economic consequences for creators, citizens, consumers, advertisers, and platforms. Organized by: Zoetanya Sujon, Irida Ntalla, Jackie Raphael-Luu, Sevil Yesiloglu, Jonathan Hardy, Yue Qin, Yingwen Wang, and Fancheng MengContact: DCE@lcc.arts.ac.uk -- 'You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' ('The Laughing Heart' by Charles Bukowski).