#anxiety: A multimodal discourse analysis of narrations of anxiety on TikTok

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102763

Chandler Mordecai

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Abstract

The video-centered platform, TikTok, has gained popularity due to its position as an entertainment app, but it is still underexplored as a tool that generates awareness and discussions about mental health. This article explores TikTok's data-point ranking system to analyze how mental health rhetoric is shaped and how public health communities are formed around the term anxiety. Through a multimodal discourse analysis of the top 10 TikTok videos using the hashtag, #anxiety, this article seeks to establish how discussions of anxiety disorders are facilitated through the use of TikTok's socio-technical features and affordances of visibility, editability, persistence, and association in order to build digital communities of support. I identify recurring themes in users’ narrations of anxiety by studying in-frame content that creates meaning and contextual messages about mental health. Ultimately, these multimodal expressions of anxiety allow users to intervene and discuss often serious topics related to mental health through video, text, images, and sounds that other users can relate to and recognize. These features and affordances create networks of community and attract conversation where others can share their experiences and practices.

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#焦虑：TikTok上焦虑叙事的多模式话语分析

以视频为中心的平台TikTok因其作为娱乐应用程序的地位而广受欢迎，但作为一种提高人们对心理健康的认识和讨论的工具，它仍然没有得到充分的开发。本文探讨了TikTok的数据点排名系统，以分析心理健康修辞是如何形成的，以及公共卫生社区是如何围绕焦虑一词形成的。通过使用#焦虑标签对TikTok前10名视频进行多模式话语分析，本文试图确定如何通过使用TikTok的社会技术特征和可见性、可编辑性、持久性和关联性来促进对焦虑症的讨论，以建立数字支持社区。我通过研究框架内的内容来识别用户对焦虑的叙述中反复出现的主题，这些内容创造了关于心理健康的意义和上下文信息。最终，这些焦虑的多模式表达允许用户通过视频、文本、图像和声音进行干预，并讨论与心理健康相关的严重话题，其他用户可以与这些话题联系并识别这些话题。这些特征和启示创造了社区网络，吸引了其他人分享经验和实践的对话。

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Computers and Composition Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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4.30

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25 days

期刊介绍： Computers and Composition: An International Journal is devoted to exploring the use of computers in writing classes, writing programs, and writing research. It provides a forum for discussing issues connected with writing and computer use. It also offers information about integrating computers into writing programs on the basis of sound theoretical and pedagogical decisions, and empirical evidence. It welcomes articles, reviews, and letters to the Editors that may be of interest to readers, including descriptions of computer-aided writing and/or reading instruction, discussions of topics related to computer use of software development; explorations of controversial ethical, legal, or social issues related to the use of computers in writing programs.