TikTok的政治格局：研究回音室和政治表达动态

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New Media & Society Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI:10.1177/14614448251339755

Yanlin Li, Zicheng Cheng, Homero Gil de Zúñiga

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这项研究使用了超过16万个抖音公共账户和1600多万个视频的综合数据集，表明从2019年到2023年，抖音政治视频内容显著增加，并在2020年美国总统大选前后达到峰值。网络分析揭示了不同的政治同质网络集群或“政治回音室”，用户在这些网络中接触到态度一致的TikTok政治内容。此外，通过数字追踪数据，我们发现具有强烈政治观点和积极社会反馈的用户更有可能在平台上分享他们的政治观点。这项研究强调了TikTok作为政治参与中心日益增长的重要性，以及它潜在的两极分化效应。本研究开发的开源数据集和方法工具为未来研究TikTok在政治传播中的作用提供了宝贵的资源。

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TikTok’s political landscape: Examining echo chambers and political expression dynamics

Using a comprehensive dataset of over 160,000 public TikTok accounts and more than 16 million videos, this study indicates a notable increase in political TikTok video content from 2019 to 2023, with a peak around the 2020 US presidential election. The network analysis reveals distinct clusters of politically homogeneous networks or “political echo chambers” where users were exposed to attitude-consistent political TikTok content. Furthermore, through digital trace data, we found that users with strong political views and positive social feedback are more likely to share their political opinions on the platform. This research emphasizes TikTok’s growing importance as a hub for political engagement, as well as its potential polarization effects. The open-source datasets and methodological tools developed in this study offer valuable resources for future research on TikTok’s role in political communication.

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New Media & Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

12.70

自引率

8.00%

发文量

274

期刊介绍： New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research. The journal includes contributions on: -the individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media -the global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change -contemporary as well as historical developments -the implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change the relationship between theory, policy and practice.