Are You the Main Character? Visibility Labor and Attributional Practices on TikTokA humanities-style position paper that reads TikTok's automated hyperlinking (hashtags, sounds, effects, stitches, duets) through 1990s hypertext theory, 2000s database aesthetics, and labor studies, arguing that creators perform both "visibility labor" and a complementary "invisibility labor" of de
doi
10.1145/3603163.3609049
isbn
979-8-4007-0232-7
name
Are You the Main Character? Visibility Labor and Attributional Practices on TikTok
source
pdf
acm_url
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3603163.3609049
authors
Elizabeth Losh
doi_url
https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609049
license
CC BY 4.0
summary
A humanities-style position paper that reads TikTok's automated hyperlinking (hashtags, sounds, effects, stitches, duets) through 1990s hypertext theory, 2000s database aesthetics, and labor studies, arguing that creators perform both "visibility labor" and a complementary "invisibility labor" of de
published
2023-09-04
conference
HT '23: 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Rome, Italy, September 4-8, 2023
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3603163.3609049
displayAuthor
Elizabeth Losh (American Studies, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA USA)
displayPublishTime
2023-09-04