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On TikTok, pop culture prevails over news and politics
Politics tamfitronics TikTok is growing fast as a destination for news, but news and politics accounts make up less than one percent of accounts followed by U.S. adults, the Pew Research Center says. Around half of all TikTok accounts followed by U.S. adults are influencers and creators, the study shows. Plus, content related to news and politics is considered rare, with only about 10% of the followed accounts that showed up in the study posting about these topics.When Pew ran a similar study in 2022 on the people users follow on X, it found that 1% of accounts followed belonged to political figures, while 3% belonged to media outlets and journalists. These numbers are still small, yet they’re more significant than those from TikTok, where media pundits and outlets account for 0.4% of people...
A medley of culture: from the bush war and circumcision to a white girl from Zimbabwe
Politics tamfitronics Sunday Times senior journalists Hendrik Hancke and Gill Gifford and digital lifestyle editor Thango Ntwasa tackle heritage and identity politics 24 September 2024 - 06:00 By HENDRIK HANCKE, Thango Ntwasa and GILL GIFFORD My heritage is a complex and difficult matter to nail down. On the one hand, I am a product of war, while being a member of the first generation of my family never to fight in a war. When I was born, my dad was in Angola fighting in the bush war. Some of the earliest pictures of me as a little boy show...