TikTok’s queer public culture of mental health support

Q2 Computer Science

First Monday Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI:10.5210/fm.v29i5.13258

Paul Byron

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Abstract

TikTok offers LGBTQ+ young people a queer public through which to negotiate mental health difficulties. Data from an Australian survey of LGBTQ+ young people was analysed to consider TikTok-specific mental health support. Five key themes of support related to: 1) sharing experiences; 2) encountering ‘people like me’; 3) comfort and safety; 4) mental health education; and 5) feeling less alone. These overlapping themes foreground the affective aspects of TikTok use for many LGBTQ+ young people, reflecting Cvetkovich’s theorization of ‘queer public cultures’. This can be seen in LGBTQ+ young people’s collective negotiations of mental health on TikTok — as a platform that offers new affective connections to queer culture, while continuing an ongoing culture of peer support forged through collective struggle, survival, and creative practice.

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TikTok 的同性恋心理健康支持公共文化

TikTok 为 LGBTQ+ 年轻人提供了一个同性恋公共平台，他们可以通过这个平台协商心理健康方面的困难。我们对澳大利亚一项针对 LGBTQ+ 年轻人的调查数据进行了分析，以考虑针对 TikTok 的心理健康支持。支持的五个关键主题涉及1）分享经历；2）遇到 "和我一样的人"；3）舒适和安全；4）心理健康教育；5）感觉不那么孤独。这些重叠的主题突出了许多 LGBTQ+ 年轻人使用 TikTok 的情感方面，反映了 Cvetkovich 关于 "同性恋公共文化 "的理论。这一点可以从 LGBTQ+ 年轻人在 TikTok 上对心理健康的集体协商中看出--TikTok 作为一个平台，为同性恋文化提供了新的情感联系，同时延续了通过集体斗争、生存和创造性实践而形成的持续的同伴支持文化。

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First Monday Computer Science-Computer Networks and Communications

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2.20

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