{"title":"#anxiety: A multimodal discourse analysis of narrations of anxiety on TikTok","authors":"Chandler Mordecai","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102763","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The video-centered platform, TikTok, has gained popularity due to its position as an entertainment app, but it is still underexplored as a tool that generates awareness and discussions about mental health. This article explores TikTok's data-point ranking system to analyze how mental health rhetoric is shaped and how public health communities are formed around the term anxiety. Through a multimodal discourse analysis of the top 10 TikTok videos using the hashtag, #anxiety, this article seeks to establish how discussions of anxiety disorders are facilitated through the use of TikTok's socio-technical features and affordances of visibility, editability, persistence, and association in order to build digital communities of support. I identify recurring themes in users’ narrations of anxiety by studying in-frame content that creates meaning and contextual messages about mental health. Ultimately, these multimodal expressions of anxiety allow users to intervene and discuss often serious topics related to mental health through video, text, images, and sounds that other users can relate to and recognize. These features and affordances create networks of community and attract conversation where others can share their experiences and practices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 102763"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Computers and Composition","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461523000142","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The video-centered platform, TikTok, has gained popularity due to its position as an entertainment app, but it is still underexplored as a tool that generates awareness and discussions about mental health. This article explores TikTok's data-point ranking system to analyze how mental health rhetoric is shaped and how public health communities are formed around the term anxiety. Through a multimodal discourse analysis of the top 10 TikTok videos using the hashtag, #anxiety, this article seeks to establish how discussions of anxiety disorders are facilitated through the use of TikTok's socio-technical features and affordances of visibility, editability, persistence, and association in order to build digital communities of support. I identify recurring themes in users’ narrations of anxiety by studying in-frame content that creates meaning and contextual messages about mental health. Ultimately, these multimodal expressions of anxiety allow users to intervene and discuss often serious topics related to mental health through video, text, images, and sounds that other users can relate to and recognize. These features and affordances create networks of community and attract conversation where others can share their experiences and practices.
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Computers and Composition: An International Journal is devoted to exploring the use of computers in writing classes, writing programs, and writing research. It provides a forum for discussing issues connected with writing and computer use. It also offers information about integrating computers into writing programs on the basis of sound theoretical and pedagogical decisions, and empirical evidence. It welcomes articles, reviews, and letters to the Editors that may be of interest to readers, including descriptions of computer-aided writing and/or reading instruction, discussions of topics related to computer use of software development; explorations of controversial ethical, legal, or social issues related to the use of computers in writing programs.
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