The article discusses how TikTok has emerged as a platform for self-representation and political contestation during the Russia–Ukraine war. Shortly after the beginning of the conflict, journalists and broadcasters have begun to associate the events unfolding in those countries with the widespread use of this platform among young content creators, refugees, soldiers, and civilians. Described as the “first TikTok war” or as “WarTok,” the conflict in Ukraine represents an important example to look at to uncover the increasingly central role of platforms as spaces where conflicts can be witnessed, documented, and shared with global audiences in real time. The research findings illustrate how TikTok becomes a space where material and affective practices of “performed refugeeness” can become visible and viral due to its unique language, formatting style, and highly personalized narratives, while creating a transnational streaming of war-related discourses that not only bypass traditional circuits of news sharing, but also activate a digital care network that crosses borders and connects diverse digital publics. While the study is small scale to account for a more in-depth narrative analysis of TikTok videos, it nevertheless returns significant insights into refugees’ digital storytelling strategies in conflict areas.

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难民在数字媒体平台上的讲故事策略：俄罗斯-乌克兰战争如何在 TikTok 上展开


文章讨论了 TikTok 如何在俄罗斯-乌克兰战争期间成为自我代表和政治竞争的平台。冲突开始后不久，记者和广播公司开始将这些国家发生的事件与年轻内容创作者、难民、士兵和平民广泛使用该平台联系起来。乌克兰的冲突被称为“第一次 TikTok 战争”或“WarTok”，它是一个重要的例子，可以揭示平台作为可以见证、记录冲突并与全球受众真实分享的空间日益发挥的核心作用。时间。研究结果表明，TikTok 因其独特的语言、格式风格和高度个性化的叙事，如何成为一个“表演难民”的物质和情感实践变得可见和病毒式传播的空间，同时创造了与战争相关的跨国话语流不仅绕过了传统的新闻共享回路，而且还激活了一个跨越国界并连接不同数字公众的数字护理网络。尽管该研究规模较小，无法对 TikTok 视频进行更深入的叙事分析，但它仍然对冲突地区难民的数字讲故事策略产生了重要见解。