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Doctoral project completed in 2021. Funded by AHRC CHASE Doctoral Studentship This project began as my doctoral research (funded by an AHRC Doctoral Studentship) investigating the transmission of alternative histories and memory in post-Maidan Ukraine. I carried out three periods of ethnographic fieldwork in Lviv, Ukraine between 2016-18, collecting life histories and examining the role of storytelling, material objects and landscape in the way the past is articulated. I employed methods such as participant observation, storytelling, material culture, oral history and walking to carry out this research, and payed particular attention to the traumatic nature of memory and storytelling in the context in which I was working. Since the 2022 full-scale invasion, I have built upon this research, drawing on my expertise on TikTok and Digital Anthropology, to examine the many ways in which Ukrainians are using TikTok to narrate, archive, and communicate about the war. This research is the subject of a number of forthcoming articles and will be explored in my monograph, forthcoming with University of Toronto Press. https://www.elenaliber.com/tiktok-ethnography-project daily 0.75 2022-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627959c652a4336a35d90a0a/1652120887248-N091L2EPZHPVWF34QMH3/IMG_7731.jpeg TikTok Ethnography Project - TikTok Ethnography Project www.tiktokethnography.com TikTok, a video sharing social media platform, is used for dancing, watching people drink wine in their pyjamas, videoing their dogs, and trying to throw ping pong balls into seemingly impossible gaps. At a time when most of us were forced to be home for large periods of time, the digital door was the only one we could access to step into the outside world and interact with the everyday. TikTok has played a crucial part in coordinating BLM protests, it has been used to explore issues of race and gender, historical and colonial violence, and to disrupt a Trump rally. It is used by factory workers in Turkey and China to highlight the precarity of their work. It has also led to TikTok users explicitly theorising about the role of algorithm in how our online lives are structured. Leading some to refer to ‘their algorithm’, the ‘intimate relationship’ they have with it, and how they try to negotiate with it. Through this confusing array of alternate worlds within TikTok, many of our interviewees emphasised a sense of belonging, an intimacy, a sense of ‘community’. What is it about this app that makes it appealing for many? That seems to create a sense of belonging? Why were people taking to TikTok during the pandemic? How does the platform allow for the conceptualisation of the challenges the pandemic presents? The TikTok Ethnography Collective is a collective of students, lecturers, researchers, anthropologists and artists who have come together to ask what it might mean to collaborate on a research project in the digital world. This project is both an ethnography of TikTok and a questioning of how we can blur the boundaries between pedagogy and research. How can we work collaboratively with a diverse range of actors within the academy and beyond in a meaningful way? How can we re-think what it means to conduct research? 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