Teenagers on TikTok: Play, Mimesis, and “Digital Authority”
Journal: Social Psychology and Society
Year: 2025

&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Context and relevance&lt;/strong&gt;. This article is based on the analysis of an empirical study of viral videos of the Russian-language segment of the digital social platform TikTok. The productivity of the theoretical schemes proposed by M.Yu. Kondratiev for studying the psychology of teenagers using digital communication is discussed. The key ideas are M.Yu. Kondratiev's ideas about play, authority, and the characteristics of growing up in