“Hearing My People, but Not Seeing My People”: Boundaries of Blackness on TikTok

IF 5.8 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-08-05 DOI:10.1177/20563051261470969

Kylie Gaines-Herrera

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Abstract

Social media is a valuable tool that enables Black individuals to contest their racialized experiences and engage in counterpublic discourse. Importantly, this opens up cultural property and closed conversations to out-group visibility and appropriation. With this in mind, I ask: How do Black social media users engage in boundary work on TikTok? I create a typology of boundary enforcement on the platform, identifying nine video subtypes, and analyze each subtype using Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis. The findings suggest that Black TikTok users employ various discursive strategies to maintain group boundaries. This study explores how new technologies may impact racialized experiences and identity formation.

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“听到我的人，但看不到我的人”：TikTok上的黑人边界

社交媒体是一个宝贵的工具，它使黑人能够对自己的种族化经历提出质疑，并参与反公共话语。重要的是，这打开了文化财产和封闭对话的外部群体可见性和挪用。考虑到这一点，我问：黑人社交媒体用户是如何在TikTok上进行边界工作的？我在平台上创建了一个边界执行的类型学，确定了九个视频子类，并使用批判性技术文化话语分析来分析每个子类。研究结果表明，黑色TikTok用户使用各种话语策略来维持群体边界。本研究探讨了新技术如何影响种族化体验和身份形成。

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来源期刊

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.