[Commlist] From the TikTok Cultures Research Network: New Report

The TikTok Cultures Research Network is excited to launch our latest 
syllabus:Studying Global Cultural Exchange on TikTok: Frameworks, Case 
Studies, and Resources. Open access and available for download on our 
site: https://tiktokcultures.com/culturalexchange2025/ 
<https://tiktokcultures.com/culturalexchange2025/>

This syllabus explores how TikTok functions as a platform for global 
cultural exchange, where users share, remix, and contest cultural 
content across borders. It provides educators, researchers, and students 
with conceptual frameworks and practical case studies to analyze how 
cultural flows are produced, circulated, and interpreted online, 
highlighting both the participatory creativity of users and the 
structural conditions — algorithmic, social, and historical — that shape 
which voices travel and resonate.

The syllabus is organised into two parts:

Part One: Conceptual Frameworks

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    Cultural Heritage

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    Transculturation

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    Cultural Brokerage

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    Glocalisation

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    Remix and Recontextualisation

Part Two: Cultural Exchange in Practice

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    Staging Culture: Identity, Nationhood, and Belonging; Spirituality
    and Religious Selfhood; Gendered and Queer Cultural Performance

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    Explaining Culture: Language, Identity, and Revitalisation;
    Racialised and Indigenous Legibility; Cultural Translation and
    Diasporic Narration

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    Contesting Culture: Appropriation, Resistance, and Authenticity;
    Platform Injustice and Visibility Politics; Cultural Sovereignty and
    Intracultural Critique

Designed for versatility, this syllabus offers a structured framework to 
support teaching, research, and critical study of TikTok as a space for 
transnational cultural exchange.

Suggested citation:
Mercier, Faye, and Crystal Abidin. 2025. Studying Global Cultural 
Exchange on TikTok: Frameworks, Case Studies, and Resources. TikTok 
Cultures Research Network (TCRN) & Social Media Pop Cultures Programme, 
Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT), Curtin University. 
https://tiktokcultures.com/culturalexchange2025/ 
<https://tiktokcultures.com/culturalexchange2025/>


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