The Final Contextual Report

Project: TikTok Consultations within the Digital Memo  Project Concept At the beginning of this semester, I pitched my final digital artefact project to offer a TikTok consultation service to students through the Creative Services Team. I developed this project based on my years of TikTok experience, and I thought it would be interesting for my final semester

TikTok and Identity

In the past, identity has been discussed as a solid and singular idea, one that is stagnant and allusive. However, authors such as James Meese et al. (2015) now describe identity as “a product and a production that is never fixed in place for long”. Indeed, identity can be described as the traits and characteristics,

Citizen Journalism in Jamaica

How do you access your news? If you’re aged 18-24 years old, chances are you access your news through social media, as suggested by the Digital News Report (2018), which found 71% of this age group use social media to access their news. However, this hasn’t always been the case. Traditional media outlets such as

Grassroots Activism in TikTok

John Storey, in his book “Cultural Theory and Popular Culture”, discusses competing theories and approaches regarding popular culture as a “site where collective social understandings are created” (Storey, 2012). The nature of how popular culture is created and utilised has evolved with globalisation and as technology has become more sophisticated. Indeed, in John Fiske’s book