Liam P Blything, Juhani Järvikivi, Abigail G Toth, Anja Arnhold
The Influence of Focus Marking on Pronoun Resolution in Dialogue Context
Frontiers in psychology
tiktok popular social media site connecting others online many users also access share healthrelated information previous studies characterized information shared specific disabilities tiktok descriptions autismrelated content lacking understanding information shared autism tiktok important understanding health communication space lived experiences autistic people role social media platforms play building community connection understanding inclusion used opensource data scraper identify download videos least 1 million views used hashtag autism tiktok using joint inductive deductive approach performed content analysis videos identified six content topics described video content eg positive social interactions features autism three categories described video purpose eg educational experiential observational used descriptive statistics describe characteristics tiktok videos analyzed n 678 videos common content topic tiktok videos features autism 397 followed marginalization 254 videos categorized experiential 614 observational 314 rather educational 72 approximately 655 videos featured autistic adult 226 featured autistic child among videos featuring autistic person n 594 autistic people perceived white 870 similar numbers feminine 529 masculine 448 presenting autistic people highly viewed autism tiktok videos primarily share autistic peoples individual experiences rather providing general education autism however autistic black indigenous people color may difficulty finding others represent along disability racial dimensions future research investigate autistic peoples motivations using tiktok autism content shapes social discourse autism