App as a protest platform: What Tiktok shows and what not

What America is, of Childish Gambino sang two years ago in "This is America". The song and the music video tell the story of the United States, how he sees and experiences, and "he" is not he meant personally, but rather "he" as a black American. The Song was already an anthem. In the Wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the last weeks he has received now, if not new, but in a specific context: by Tiktok.

"This is America" sounds a million times in the short clip, the App, the uploaded by the protesters under the Hashtags "Black Lives Matter" and "George Floyd". And this America is one in which you would like to live: You can see a police officer, the aping dancing Protesters; or a screen empty for ten years, trying to wash the tear gas from the eyes; then police officers, water bottles, to prevent the.

You can see smashed shop Windows, plundered shops, burning streets, and two police officers, shot with rubber in a peaceful crowd; police officers who are about to overwhelm the fourth-a single man holding a sign; or the sixth-the car of a couple take both of tasers is up, the driver unconscious. "This is America, Look at how I'm livin' now, Police be trippin' now" – Childish Gambinos Text fits well to the images and is engraved with each Clip more.

so, This is America: It is America, full of malice and violence, you see – and it will be seen. Almost eleven billion Times #black was used for live matter. Tiktok has become the most important platform to document the protests, especially in the United States. Ironically, Tiktok – a platform of the Chinese firm byte dance, which is mainly used by young people, in order to maintenance has become the end, to post – if somewhat mind-exempt content-now for the political Medium of the hour.

Not only the content, more of its Form because of. The Protest will take place finally on all social media. Tiktok is not text heavy like Facebook, and also calls for no careful Curation of images, such as Instagram. Anyone who logs in, is directly thrown into a Pool of Videos, none of which lasts longer than sixty seconds, and repeat until you are caught far. What comes next is unclear. Even Facebook and Instagram are experimenting with the function. For Tiktok, the supposedly Random but it is essential.