Student Meet 2021 - #doctorsofTikTok
Channel: CETE_TISS
Date: 2021-04-30

Student Meet 2021 - #doctorsofTikTok : What health influencers on TikTok can tell us about health communication in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic?
19th February 2021
11 am to 12.15 pm IST

Presenter: Dr. Clare Southerton Postdoctoral Research Fellow Vitalities Lab, Social Policy Research Centre and Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia.
Moderator: Ekta Singla, Doctoral student, TISS, Mumbai.

Dr. Clare Southerton's published research has explored the intersections of social media, privacy, surveillance, and sexuality. Her current research projects are focused on how intimacy and collective effects are cultivated on platforms and with devices, and potentials in these spaces for health and sexuality education. Her work has been published in New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, and Girlhood Studies.
In this presentation, Dr. Clare Southerton discussed a digital ethnography project, TikTok communities were analyzed and observed in order to consider what could be learned about the ‘infodemic’ from existing health content creators on the platform. Also about how using qualitative social media research methods, important ethical issues, and the things we need to keep in mind as social researchers when we seek to take our research into the digital space.