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title: There Is Nothing Real! A Study of Nonuse of TikTok in India
abstract: Social media platforms are used for both entertainment and information sharing purposes across diverse populations in the world. Though content in all possible formats is shared in these platforms, there is a differential preference among the users. Despite the phenomenal growth and adherence to the regulations, TikTok, a video sharing platform, is dissuaded by a few governments and is discontinued by the users. But this platform seems to be preferred by people who are from semi urban and are digital have less. The present paper attempts to understand the non use of TikTok in India. This paper has explored the negative perceptions resulting in the nonusage of social media among individuals by taking the case study of the application TikTok. For that, a qualitative approach was used, and twenty in depth semi structured interviews were conducted from various regions in India through online and offline mode. The data were analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. A framework is provided to understand why people may not use social media platforms. Suggestions are also given as to how social media platforms can be altered or redesigned to appeal to a broader set of people. Numerous reasons were identified that resulted in negative perceptions about the platform. The findings indicate that individuals seem to dislike TikTok mostly because it leads to a waste of time, does not contribute to knowledge, and includes unrealistic and unethical content. People appeared to be concerned about the social stigma attached to it. Specific measures are suggested, for instance, filtering out content, culture specific user interface, statutory warnings, safety, and encryption to address the negative perceptions and to improve the authenticity of the platform.

title: Security, Privacy and Steganographic Analysis of FaceApp and TikTok
abstract: Smartphone applications (Apps) can be addictive for users due to their uniqueness, ease of use, trendiness, and growing popularity. The addition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their functionality has rapidly gained popularity with smartphone users. Over the years, very few smartphone Apps have quickly gained immense popularity like FaceApp and TikTok. FaceApp boasts of using AI to transform photos of human faces using its powerful facial recognition capabilities. FaceApp has been the target of ensuing backlash against it driving the market for a number of other similar yet lesser known clones into the top ranks of the App stores. TikTok offers video editing and sharing of short video clips whereby making them charming, funny, cringe inducing, and addictive to the younger generation. FaceApp and TikTok have been the targets of the media, privacy watchdogs, and governments over worries of privacy, ethnicity filters, data misuse, anti forensics, and security. In this paper, the authors forensically review FaceApp and TikTok Apps from the Android Play Store, for their data ownership, data management, privacy concerns, steganographic use, and overall security posture.

title: Acne and social media: A cross sectional study of content quality on TikTok
abstract: Our objective was to assess the quality of acne related medical information present on TikTok, the world's fastest growing social media platform. We queried the TikTok mobile application for videos tagged with "#acne" on May 1, 2020, and assessed the top 100 videos meeting inclusion criteria for content quality using DISCERN, a validated and reliable instrument for evaluating consumer health information. The mean content quality rating of videos was 2.03 (SD 0.47) which, according to the DISCERN instrument, indicates information with serious to potentially important shortcomings. Dermatologists should be aware that adolescents are using TikTok to gather acne related information, and should prioritize acne education in this patient demographic due to the generally low content quality of such information.

title: TIKTOK AND THE "ALGORITHMIZED SELF" A NEW MODEL OF ONLINE INTERACTION
abstract: Despite TikTok's ever increasing popularity, it has been the topic of little academic analysis. This project was primarily motivated by a desire to understand TikTok's meteoric rise in use; is it simply the latest iteration of a social networking model that is found in other popular applications such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter? Or, does it owe its success in part to a novel interaction structure?

title: TikTok and Hijab: Questioning Islamic Values in Digital Sphere
abstract: TikTok as a new social media provides many features for users to self generate content expressively. In its platform, most of users producing dancing content excessively and some of the users are women who wear hijab. This article will examine the concept of hijab and hijab women in digital sphere like TikTok. The method of this article utilizes qualitative and it also take library research for looking some theories of hijab and digital sphere phenomena. The result shows that many Muslim scholars consider that dancing is allowed in four condition, which are no alcohol, no gender mix, no effeminate moves, and not to do it excessively. By those condition, this article invites Muslim scholars to question the phenomena on digital sphere.

title: Research on the commercial value of Tiktok in China
abstract: At present, as a new form of content dissemination, short video has gradually changed the way people obtain information. As a result of meeting people's fragmented information acquisition needs, the overall scale of short video users presents an explosive growth trend. In 2019, Tiktok was recognized as an excellent representative of the short video industry. The Tiktok short video is chosen as the object of investigation. The commercial value of Tiktok short video is analyzed from the perspectives of users and traffic, brand and content, business mode and so on. Meanwhile, the existing profit models of Tiktok short videos are investigated in detail. Tiktok's profit methods mainly include open screen advertising, live earnings and e commerce cooperation. Various ways have been used to close the business loop to address the ultimate goal of value realization.

title: Midias sociais e educacao em tempos de pandemia: o TikTok como suporte aos processos de ensino e aprendizagem
abstract: Essa pesquisa analisa como a midia social TikTok tem contribuido com os processos de ensino de aprendizagem em tempos de pandemia do COVID 19. Como aporte teorico, apresentamos discussoes sobre a relacao entre Educacao e Cultura Digital e em como essa relacao propicia a utilizacao de Midias Socais (estas enquanto Tecnologias Digitais de Informacao e Comunicacao TDICs) em contextos educacionais de forma positiva aos processos de ensino e aprendizagem. Discutimos tambem, como isso tem ampliado a apropriacao de Midias Sociais, do TikTok especificamente, em contextos educacionais frente a pandemia do COVID 19. Trata se de uma pesquisa exploratoria e desenvolvida a partir da analise dos perfis de professores que abordam os conteudos curriculares no TikTok e em como estes se relacionam com os sujeitos aprendizes. Os resultados apontam que o TikTok tem sido uma importante ferramenta para os processos de ensino e aprendizagem durante a pandemia do COVID 19. O TikTok tem sido utilizado a fim de apresentar exemplificacoes e materializacao de conteudos abstratos em situacoes cotidianas dos sujeitos aprendizes, aproximando assim estes sujeitos dos conteudos curriculares.

title: ONE APP, TWO VERSIONS: TIKTOK AND THE PLATFORMIZATION FROM CHINA
abstract: The increasing presence of Chinese internet companies (to name but a few: Tencent, Tiktok, Alibaba and Huaiwei) in the global platform society (Van Dijck et al 2018) has aroused grave concern in the West over the issues of privacy and surveillance especially due to their inextricable connections to the Chinese Party State. If domestically Chinese platform economy represents an alternative cyber ecology that is deliberately nurtured by the Chinese state to counteract the global, silicon valley based platform ecosystem, then this 'parallel universe' now also constantly attempts to expand its system and exert greater influence on the global stage. Together with the 'parallel universe' also comes an 'alternative globalization' that is rooted in China, in comparison to the globalization that is dominated by the European American transnational capital and power.

title: Prospects for the advancement of the TikTok in the age of 5G communication
abstract: The rise of TikTok has recently lifted a new wave of UGC(User Generated Content) creation, showing a remarkable spread effect at home and abroad. As a 15 second music short video community Targeting younger audiences, TikTok's fragmented content is continually creating commercial value. With the advent of 5G network, the short video will come profound changes. Thus, it is essential to understand what technologies people will accept to help to improve the design, evaluation, and predict user responses to new technologies. This study empirically analyzes how the introduction of technical characteristics, as a diffusion strategy, affects consumers' intention to use. A survey was conducted with 295 people in China, and a revised TAM strategy was used to analyze the acceptability of technology. User adoption behaviours were analyzed rigorously, adding perceived enjoyment, social interactions, perceived risk as parameters of the basic TAM. This study indicates that perceived interactivity is the most important factor determining the user's attitude. Perceived risk has a negative influence on perceived interactivity. Perceived ease of use positively affects perceived usefulness. Perceived enjoyment has a direct impact on the perceived ease of use. On this basis, our result showcases the potential paths of development of social media companies like TikTok in the 5G era. Immersive content creation and realtime interaction will turn into a new development pattern in the TikTok future, such as social interaction in augmented reality. In the meantime, TikTok should also pay attention to protecting users' privacy to reduce users' concerns about the risk of new technology.

title: Use TikTok to engage with future students