TikTok use is often engaging for young users, but more research is needed to understand its impact and potential negative behavioral effects.

On the Psychology of TikTok Use: A First Glimpse From Empirical Findings

TikTok's algorithm-driven self-making model differs from existing platforms, promoting awareness, content without context, and cross-platform self-creation.

Why’s Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media

TikTok's video-related features and duet challenge feature can promote engaging and meaningful learning in ESL classrooms, but limitations like user behavior and infrastructure need to be addressed.

The Potential of TikTok’s Key Features as a Pedagogical Strategy for ESL Classrooms

TikTok has become a hub for creativity and is being used by educators and governments to reach younger demographics, despite criticism and scrutiny.

Research perspectives on TikTok and its legacy apps: introduction

Media presence on TikTok is low, with most content focused on viral content and entertainment, but there is a niche for current affairs content, with virality and engagement figures indicating a niche for this type of content.

Current affairs on TikTok. Virality and entertainment for digital natives

TikTok users often share misinformation about prostate cancer, with some videos containing false information about the disease.

TikTok and prostate cancer: misinformation and quality of information using validated questionnaires

TikTok's rapid growth presents both opportunities and challenges for public health, with potential health-related implications and opportunities.

TikTok and public health: a proposed research agenda

The TikTok platform encourages mimesis through its logic and design, leading to imitation publics and altering modes of sociality.

Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform

TikTok's playful architecture shapes political discourse and participation, and ludo-literacy can reveal structures guiding playful political participation and initiate alternative modes of playing politics.

Playing Politics: How Sabarimala Played Out on TikTok

TikTok has a disturbing presence of Far-right extremism in videos, commentary, symbols, and pictures, with unique features like young children and naive users making it more vulnerable to malicious content.

Research Note: Spreading Hate on TikTok

TikTok's play-based affordances enable playful activism by Palestinian users during conflicts, making democratic participation more relatable and accessible to various audiences.

Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges

TikTok videos on teaching topics like #learnontiktok are most popular among users, with the highest audience engagement in disciplines like math and science.

Tiktok and Education: Discovering Knowledge through Learning Videos

Gen Z uses #OkBoomer memes on TikTok to express generational sentiment towards 'Boomers' as the imagined other, influencing intergenerational politics and ultimately mainstreaming it in society.

‘#OkBoomer, time to meet the Zoomers’: studying the memefication of intergenerational politics on TikTok

News media are adapting to TikTok's visual content and dynamic dynamics, aiming to inform, position their brand, and adapt to a new approach to journalism for younger generations.

Let’s dance the news! How the news media are adapting to the logic of TikTok

TikTok political communication is more interactive than other social media platforms, with Republican users generating more content and receiving more responses, while Democratic users engage in more cross-partisan discussions.

Dancing to the Partisan Beat: A First Analysis of Political Communication on TikTok

During the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTok content about tics and Tourette syndrome increased, leading to increased neurology clinic visits for tics.

TikTok Tics: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic

TikTok has been used for various public health purposes, but there is a lack of high-quality mixed methodological evaluations, despite it being the most used platform for children and young people.

Using TikTok for public and youth mental health – A systematic review and content analysis

TikTok has become a key platform for teachers to connect and share experiences, with key factors enabling its popularity among educators, impacting teacher education and social media scholarship.

Teachers of TikTok: Glimpses and gestures in the performance of professional identity

Spanish political parties have adopted TikTok, but Podemos and Ciudadanos generate more engagement and understand its specific affordances better, while PP and PSOE use it as a unilateral tool for promotion.

What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case

The rise of TikTok during the Coronavirus crisis highlights the importance of teenage girls on the internet, while also highlighting the dangers faced by girls outside of the ideals embodied by TikTok stars like Charli D'Amelio.

‘If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right now’: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis

Some studies suggest TikTok is engaging and promotes creativity and learning, while other studies highlight concerns about misinformation, negative behavioral effects, and the presence of extremist content.