Tik-tok is an emergence of popular culture since its rapid growth in attracting users around the world. Youth are the ones who use TikTok the most in its function to consume informational content. In the process of consuming TikTok content, young people tend to experience a crisis of self-identity along with popular consumption culture. Tiktok in the process of popular consumption culture also acts as a determinant for young people to act, think and even make a decision. This study found that Ti…
Read moreTik-tok is an emergence of popular culture since its rapid growth in attracting users around the world. Youth are the ones who use TikTok the most in its function to consume informational content. In the process of consuming TikTok content, young people tend to experience a crisis of self-identity along with popular consumption culture. Tiktok in the process of popular consumption culture also acts as a determinant for young people to act, think and even make a decision. This study found that Tiktok's ontological status as a self-determinant in technological determinism is non-existent and it is the youth as a digital society who has complete determination in Tiktok's digital communication from production, consumption to information distribution through the concept of Digi-sein. With a conceptual analysis of Tiktok's indeterminant cyberspace designation, youth must become fully critical and authentic as Digi-sein in Tiktok to realize harmonious ideas that are not value-biased in using Tiktok.
