Alina Starovolsky Shitrit
Post doctoral fellow in Tel-Aviv University
Sep 10, 2024
11:00 am
Sep 10, 2024
11:00 am
In-person
4 Thomas More St
London E1W 1YW, UK
London E1W 1YW, UK
The Roux Institute
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Portland, ME 04101
Portland, ME 04101
Network Science Institute
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Network Science Institute
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London E1W 1LP, UK
Talk recording
Value Transmission on TikTok (Adolescence)
Values are essential life goals that shape an individual's identity, choices, attitudes, and behaviors. Traditionally transmitted primarily through parents, value communication is undergoing a transformation with the rise of social media platforms like TikTok, which is now used by 67% of teenagers, with 50% engaging almost constantly. While much research on social media influencers has focused on marketing, the values conveyed through TikTok content remain underexplored.
This presentation examines the values present in TikTok posts, the strategies influencers use to communicate them, and how adolescents perceive and adopt these values. We manually coded nearly 1,000 posts from 100 influencers across various genres for 19 values based on Schwartz’s framework and identified different communicative strategies. Additionally, we are developing an NLP tool to predict the values transmitted in TikTok content, allowing us to expand our dataset and deepen our understanding of how these values influence today's youth.
Our findings provide critical insights into how TikTok shapes adolescents' value systems, offering a fresh perspective on digital value transmission in the social media age.
About the speaker
I have a background in Computer Science and Bioinformatics, with over a decade of experience in the biotech industry, specializing in drug development and big data analysis. After earning a PhD with a focus on Next Generation Sequencing, I transitioned into education research. My current postdoctoral work explores intersections between computational methods and social science, particularly in understanding child development.
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