‘Narrative Matters: No teen is an island – the cost of finding a tribe through memes and TikToks’
Paper from our CAMH journal
This article considers how literacies are assembled when ‘reading’ memes and TikToks; how this impacts adolescents’ membership or otherwise of a group; and how a desire for group membership hampers other aspects of literacy when engaging with this kind of social media content.
Authors: Andrew Duffy
First published: 08 March 2023
https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12643
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