DIGSUM researcher Moa Eriksson Krutrök has recently published an article with Tom Divon, doctorate student at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, about “Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War”. Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, TikTok has emerged as a pivotal platform, where creators utilize its compressed video formats to mediate the harsh realities of war zones. In this article, the researchers examine 97 videos produced by 12 Ukrainian and Russian TikTok creators in response to the 2022 war in Ukraine. By focusing on the playful embodiment of trauma using digital ethnography, Eriksson Krutrök and Divon analyze creators’ practices and their interconnected memetic communication on TikTok.
The article can be found [here].