Mediated Sexual and Romantic Learning on TikTok: The Dating Wrapped Trend

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI:10.1177/20563051241279255

Emily A. Mendelson, Jacob Kenton Smith

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Abstract

The Dating Wrapped trend on TikTok takes inspiration from Spotify’s annual Wrapped event where Spotify users are presented with their year-end listening statistics. Dating Wrapped repackages fundamental components of Spotify’s Wrapped—a focus on aesthetics, PowerPoint-like presentation of information, and quantification of personal experiences—but does so in the context of interpersonal relationships as a dating year-in-review video on TikTok. This article applies a content analysis and critical thematic analysis to 54 TikTok videos with the hashtag DatingWrapped as a way to understand how sensemaking about sexual and romantic relationships occurs when individuals create content centered around self-disclosures of intimate experiences. Ultimately, we argue that trends such as Dating Wrapped provide opportunities for personal expression among emerging adults who use TikTok, the efficacy of which is enhanced by attention to data visualization within its presentation format. Second, TikTok trends centered around interpersonal relationships may influence the formation of sexual and romantic identities through processes of mediated learning about relationships.

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TikTok 上的中介性学习和浪漫学习：约会包装趋势

TikTok 上的 Dating Wrapped 趋势从 Spotify 的年度 Wrapped 活动中获得灵感，在该活动中，Spotify 会向用户展示其年终收听统计数据。Dating Wrapped 重新包装了 Spotify Wrapped 的基本要素--注重美感、PowerPoint 式的信息展示和个人经历的量化--但在人际关系的背景下将其作为 TikTok 上的约会年度回顾视频。本文运用内容分析和批判性主题分析法，对 54 个带有标签 "DatingWrapped "的 TikTok 视频进行了分析，以了解当个人围绕亲密经历的自我披露创建内容时，如何对性关系和恋爱关系进行感知。最终，我们认为，"约会包装 "等趋势为使用 TikTok 的新兴成年人提供了个人表达的机会，而在其展示格式中对数据可视化的关注则增强了这种表达的效果。其次，以人际关系为中心的 TikTok 趋势可能会通过以人际关系为媒介的学习过程，影响性身份和浪漫身份的形成。

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Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.