TikTok and Children: Speakers

Claire GARTLAND, Youth Safety & Wellbeing Global Product Policy Lead, Trust & Safety Global Product Policy Department

Kathryn GRANT, Outreach & Partnerships Manager, Research Partnerships Lead, TikTok Trust & Safety

Crystal ABIDIN, Curtin University; Founder, TikTok Cultures Research Network; Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

Aleesha RODRIGUEZ, Queensland University of Technology; Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child; Founding Member, TikTok Cultures Research Network

Alex TURVY, Tulane University; Global Member, TikTok Cultures Research Network

Xinyu (Andy) ZHAO, Deakin University; Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child; Founding Member, TikTok Cultures Research Network

Young people and TikTok use in Australia: Digital geographies of care in popular culture

Jessica MCLEAN, Macquarie University

“I’m My Own Target Audience”: Platform Affordances and Neurodivergent Young People’s Cultural Production on #Autisktok

Jessica RAUCHBERG, McMaster University (Presenting Author)

Meryl ALPER, Northeastern University; Ellen SIMPSON, University of Colorado; Josh GUBERMAN, University of Michigan; Sarah FEINBERG, Tufts University

TikTok Discourses: Youth and the transition to high school

James SHANAHAN, Columbia University

Scarce Commodity: TikTok and Yorùbá Children Influencers

Ganiyat TIJANI-ADENLE, North-West University (Presenting Author)

Abiodun SALAWU, North-West University

Pedagogical practices on TikTok: the effort to promote kin-keeping practices among Arab women content creators from the Gulf States

Sara AL DERHAM, Newcastle University

#parentingtips: A descriptive study of information for parents on TikTok

Tess FLETCHER, Telethon Kids Institute

Mediated Parental Absence: Parasocial Relationships between Children and their “TikTok Parents”

Jacob SMITH, University of North Carolina (Presenting Author)

Emily MENDELSON, University of Illinois

The Influence of TikTok on the Development of Children’s Critical Thinking Skills: Parents’ Perceptions

Youssef YAKOUB, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Skinamarink and the Algorithmic Uncanny Interface between Children’s TikTok and Horror Film Cultures

Jessica BALANZATEGUI, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Revisiting the Nymphet Aesthetic: TikTok’s Response to Tumblr’s Sexually Attractive Girl

Summer GAMBLE, St Mary’s University

True Crime & TikTok: A Source of Misinformation, Sensationalism & Graphic Content for Children

Megan LUPTON, De Montfort University

The representation of dieting behaviours on TikTok: a descriptive content analysis

Emily MUNRO, Telethon Kids Institute; University of Western Australia

The signs of times: choreographing life on TikTok?

Teresa Sofia CASTRO, Universidade Lusófona

Is it worth the laugh? Understanding memeification of videos with children subjects on TikTok

Madelyn GARCIA, University of the Philippines

‘Um, cold take’: The memeification of youth experience on TikTok

Emilie OWENS, University of Oslo

Digital gifting on Tiktok & Douyin: a cross cultural analysis of Chinese and the UK livestream audiences from different age groups

Jialin WU, Edinburgh Napier University

Children as Commodities: Ethnographic Observations and Legal Implications of Child Influencer Monetization on TikTok

Tom DIVON, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Presenting Author)

Catalina GOANTA, Utrecht University

TikTok regulations in Vietnam: between the risks and the opportunities

Viet Tho LE, Van Lang University

“Read the terms and conditions – if you are able to.” – The implications of TikTok usage in among children from a legal perspective focusing on children’s rights, policy making and regulation proposals.

Gergely LENDVAI, Pázmány Péter Catholic University

TikTok and the Privacy Rights of Babies and Toddlers

Octavia OLMOS-RODRIGUEZ, Aarhus University; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Crystal ABIDIN, Curtin University; Founder, TikTok Cultures Research Network; Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

Jin LEE, Curtin University; Research Fellow, TikTok Cultures Research Network; Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

Tama LEAVER, Curtin University; Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child