Disrupting Online Political Violence: The Aesthetic and Affective Labour of Gen Z Girls on TikTok
摘要
Girls’ bodies, their aesthetic styles, their use of affect has been a cause of anxieties, surveillance, and violence throughout history. We see this amplified in a digital context. Looking at girls' use of TikTok during Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential democratic primary race this chapter argues that girls’ digital aesthetic and affective labour engages in political work that resists dominant ideas of girls on TikTok as apolitical or victims of digital political violence. While research has focused on young girls’ use of Tumbler and Twitter, and to a lesser extend Instagram, very few works have focused on girls’ use of TikTok as a space to resist violence. It has been recognized that social media has become increasing important in political communication and mobilization (Lalancetter and Raynauld Am Behav Sci 63(7):888–924, 2017), but the role girls have played in this has been less studied.