28633
Seminar
What is #news on TikTok? Methods for analyzing news on social media platforms
Lion Wedel
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TikTok is becoming a leading social media platform for the production and distribution of short-form, individualized news videos aimed at young audiences. With its strong algorithmic curation, multimodal construction of videos with additional elements (GIFs, emojis, etc.), and emphasis on short content, TikTok has disrupted traditional ways of journalists’ news production and enabled non-traditional actors, such as influencers, activists, and political actors, to produce and frame news-like content.
This seminar is coupled with the seminar 28632 “What is #news on TikTok? Theory and concepts for understanding news in the social media age”. The coupled seminars have the goal of enabling students to conceptually understand and empirically explore how news content is evolving in response to social media platforms. In this seminar, the students will gain an overview of methods for audiovisual content analysis, ranging from qualitative and quantitative approaches to computational analyses. Furthermore, students will learn about key steps of the data collection and analysis of TikTok content.
The coupled seminars are structured around an empirical group project, allowing students to directly apply the concepts and methods related to news content on TikTok. The seminar assignment across the coupled seminars consists of a group term paper in line with the module requirements and oral presentations (midterm and final). Please note that this seminar will be held in English. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Fri, 2025-10-17 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2025-10-24 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2025-10-31 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2025-11-07 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2025-11-14 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2025-11-21 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2025-11-28 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2025-12-05 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2025-12-12 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2025-12-19 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2026-01-09 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2026-01-16 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2026-01-23 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2026-01-30 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2026-02-06 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2026-02-13 14:00 - 16:00