Welcome

The TikTok Cultures Research Network is a portal for scholarly resources, research projects, and events that connects networks of qualitative scholars of various disciplines from around the world.

Latest News

March 2023: The TCRN Special Issue of Social Media + Society is out now, edited by Crystal Abidin and Jin Lee. Feature Topic: TikTok and Social Movements.

February 2023: The TCRN Special Issue of Media International Australia is out now, edited by Crystal Abidin, Jin Lee and D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye. Feature Topic: Cultures of TikTok in the Asia Pacific.

Activities

Events

Our Virtual Events with leading academics explore a wide range of TikTok scholarship.

Watch the recordings from our most recent virtual event, ‘TikTok & Asian Diaspora’ here.

Publications

Browse the research our Members have published in Journal Articles, Reports, Books, Talks and Media.

Our public scholarship project on Social Justice through Social Media Pop Cultures can be found here.

Resources

We aim to provide a significant resource of scholarship on TikTok Cultures. The Bibliography documents the significant research being published globally.

Explore our curated TikTok Syllabus here.