Tap & Share interrogates how TikTok LIVE has emerged as a site of survival and visibility during Gaza’s live-streamed genocide. While media coverage frames the genocide through the lens of horror-in-real-time, what appears on TikTok LIVE is more mundane, less viewed, yet still deeply violent. Despite moderation biases and exploitative monetization structures that are obscured behind a playful interface, Gaza’s streamers tactically and masterfully carve out space for agency, visibility, solidarity, and care.
This is the practical component of the thesis for the MA in Human Rights and the Arts. The research also produced a written thesis component and a separate chapter published with the Institute of Network Cultures.
