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TikTok case study

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  TikTok is a social media platform which originated from China in September 2016              which started out as Douyin in China and was later released to the rest of the world as TikTok in 2018, TikTok is a video hosting service owned by a Chinese company named ByteDance. In the app people are allowed to post videos ranging from 15 seconds long to 10 minutes long. The app is generally used by younger people around the ages of 14-21+ as an outlet to express themselves through singing, dancing, comedy, and lip-syncing, and allows users to create videos and share them across a community with the occasional educational videos and theory videos also popping up. Byte dance is a Chinese Internet company responsible for the creation of the hit social media platform Douyin or better known by many as TikTok. It was founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo and a team of others. Douyin or the Chinese version of TikTok is pretty popular China with 500 million daily Chinese users and 2 years

Media regulation US law section 230

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Media regulation 230 Important court rulings on Section 230 have held that users and services cannot be sued for forwarding email, hosting online reviews, or sharing photos or videos that others find objectionable. It also helps to quickly resolve lawsuits cases that have no legal basis.  On of the big names in the social media world is YouTube, an it has been around since 2005, which means that they have a lot of time to write their rules and regulation they mostly try to develop a bot to do the regulation for them as they do not have the time or people to go and inspect every single video on the platform so instead of that they have a bot that would filter out the more sensitive videos from the normal ones so that they are easier to manage. But the bot isn't perfect and can lead to misunderstanding when it comes to regulating videos YouTube has regulation, with a few of them being their Suicide and harm policies where it states that "we do not allow content on YouTube that p

OFCOM

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  OFCOM The Office of Communications, also known as OFCOM, is the United Kingdom's government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications, and postal industries.  OFCOM has broad authority over the television, radio, telecommunications, and postal sectors.  OFCOM plays an important role in the realm of TV broadcasting as OFCOM prevents some sensitive content such as swearing, sex, drugs, etc. out of live TV by filtering them out. There is also a watershed period from 05.30 A.M to 09:00 P.M where no sensitive content can be aired to children as according to research these are the times where children watch TV more frequently. OFCOM cannot censor TV programs or shows before it's release, but when it is already aired then they can censor it. But the TV shows can only be censored by audience requests via the OFCOM complaint center where they would read their complaints with care and will censor or fine whatever TV show they complained abou

Media regulation

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  The now 24 year-old Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is a YouTuber from the United States. He is credited with starting a YouTube video genre centered on expensive stunts.  The "Counting to 100,000" video that MrBeast published in 2017 caused his account to go viral. He gained internet fame and more than $100,000 for different causes thanks to the 55-hour webcast. Since then, Mr. Beast has gained notoriety for his pricey challenges and exploits. MrBeast usually has a team to do this stuff such as a director, editor, event coordinator and a cameraman which he has personally hired named Tareeq, etc. He would first record his videos before sending them to the editing team to edit his videos for him to make it as appealing as possible then it would be sent to his manager or director to be checked and see if the video is safe to release into YouTube, while his manager or director is checking his edited him and his social media team will be teasing the new video on Insta

Research

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Research Marshall Bruce Marthers III &  Jarad Anthony Higgins. (2020) Godzilla [Performed by Eminem & Juice WRLD] Music To Be Murdered By. [Audio file]    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_0JjYUe5jo&ab_channel=LyricalLemonade Media language This was song was Written by Eminem and Juice WRLD and was performed by both respectfully in 2020, the music video was about the influence of alcohol which was somewhat similar to what our music video was about if the alcohol were drugs instead. In the video we can see Eminem stumbling all over the place after drinking a huge amount of alcohol and every he gets super drunk the song and the beat slows down and becomes muffled. There is also the appearance of Mike Tyson for some people who know the fact that he used to be heavily influence by drugs and alcohol and is currently recovering from it and the fact that he is performing surgery on Eminem later proves that he is over his alcoholism. Representation The video is clearly made for the