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	Tom Divon Media &#38;amp; Culture Researcher 
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		<description>ABOUT


	Let’s Chat!&#38;nbsp;︎
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	I'm Tom Divon, a researcher, teacher, activiset, and proud father to my Corgi, Alex. My home is the Internet. I explore digital cultures and platformed life, asking critical questions about content creators, political identities, affordances, content moderation, memetic practices, activism, and Palestinian resistance. My work spans the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, using a qualitative toolkit that includes multimodal analysis, interviews, observations, ethnography, and more.In my ongoing work, I study the never-ending cultural frictions between the online world and humanity as I inquire into the two sides: how people use the internet, including creators, lurkers, influencers, and any other agents with interest, as well as how the internet designs, shapes and affects users' behaviors.Among my publications, you'll find my ongoing passion in platforms and the frequent misinterpretations of both Palestinian and Jewish activists and their cultural content moderation. My attention is also given to platformized modes of resistance and witnessing, as well as the interplay of trauma and playfulness in creators' lives, expressed through audiovisual memes and generative AI. 
Please journey through my world as you scroll&#38;nbsp;︎

	
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		<title>PUBLICATIONS</title>
				
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	PUBLICATIONS


	[ 01 ]
The Sound of Disinformation: TikTok, Computational Propaganda, and the Invasion of Ukraine
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	[ 02 ]
#JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism
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	[ 03 ]
“On TikTok, everything needs to be playful, even the Holocaust!”: Playability, Memes, and Participatory Memory Culture


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	[ 04 ]
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok# Challenges
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	[ 05 ]
Artificially Alive: An Exploration of AI Resurrections and Spectral Labor Modes in a Postmortal Society
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	2026
	[ 06 ]Dancing in uniform: Thirst trap propaganda in military image wars on TikTok
	[ 07 ]Social Media Challenges: From Playful Imitation to Sociopolitical Power‏
	[ 08 ]Context matters: Understanding the platformization of violence
	
	[ 09 ]The TikTok caliphate: How jihadist supporters exploit algorithmic recommendations and evade content moderation
	[ 10 ]Children as concealed commodities: Ethnographic nuances and legal implications of kidfluencers’ monetisation on TikTok
	[ 11 ]
Advocacy influencers: Navigating resistance and walking the activism tightrope
	
	
	2025
	[ 12 ]
Live Streaming: Mapping Networks of Influence and (Dis)information Flow
	[ 13 ]
Latin American Cultures on TikTok
	[ 13 ]
The unsolicited algorithm: unveiling gendered harms and (non) consent in apple iOS features
	[ 14 ]
Artificially alive:&#38;nbsp;An exploration o
	[ 15 ]
“On TikTok, everything needs to be playful, even the Holocaust!”: Playability, memes, and participatory memory culture
	[ 16 ]
“The algorithm loves the war”: ambivalent visibility in content creator practices during war‏
	[ 17 ]
Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation‏
	[ 18 ]The rise of war influencers: Creators, platforms, and the visibility of conflict zones‏

	
	2024
	‏[ 19 ]
Special issue on methods in visual politics and protest: Deconstruction, reflexivity &#38;amp; femmix
	[ 20 ]
Special Issue on Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: mixed methods, data curation &#38;amp; anti-publics‏
	‏[ 21 ]
Shoah Commemoration and Education on TikTok
	[ 22 ]
Playful trauma: TikTok creators and the use of the platformed body in times of war‏ ‏
	[ 23 ]
The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine
	
	
	2023
	[ 24 ]
#Digital  How COVID-19 Reinforced Holocaust Memorials and Museums’ Shift Toward Social Media Memory
	[ 25 ]
TikTok (ing) Ukraine: Meme-based expressions of cultural trauma on social media‏
	
	
	2022
	[ 26 ]
Youthful platform commemoration: TikTok as a frontier for holocaust education and memory
	[ 27 ]
Playful Publics on TikTok: The Memetic Israeli-Palestinian War of #CHALLENGE


	[ 28 ]
Serious TikTok:&#38;nbsp;Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds?
	
	
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 09:40:27 +0000</pubDate>

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	#VladdyDaddy On TikTok:   Users Imagined Imtimacy and Online Memetic Participation 🇷🇺
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Authenticity-by-Demand:  Bullying Influencers Into Activism Labor In Times of War
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	Playful Platforms: The Memeification of Participatory Violence Acts on TikTok&#60;img width="338" height="572" width_o="338" height_o="572" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efc6beac548feb2ce73b76253cc46c6756198d43bc5c118a9573332b98ad5da1/Activism--Memory-and-Conflict.png" data-mid="178648590" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/338/i/efc6beac548feb2ce73b76253cc46c6756198d43bc5c118a9573332b98ad5da1/Activism--Memory-and-Conflict.png" /&#62;


	The Harm of AirDrop: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence in Everyday Lives of Young Women&#60;img width="1566" height="880" width_o="1566" height_o="880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b130d84d5c1b6df8374135139da31e22669483baef551e4fafc366c35d4f79ef/190821-Adelstein-Air-Drop-Dick-Pics-tease_qhj5ln.gif" data-mid="178648144" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b130d84d5c1b6df8374135139da31e22669483baef551e4fafc366c35d4f79ef/190821-Adelstein-Air-Drop-Dick-Pics-tease_qhj5ln.gif" /&#62;


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		<title>PRESS copy</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>

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	︎

Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor'

404MEDIA, 2026 

	︎AI can make the dead talk – why this doesn’t comfort usThe Conversation, 2026


	︎How to Interpret the Israeli-Palestinian Reality in ReelsHaaretz, 2026
	︎Tech Bro Power Play: Zuckerberg vs. Global Tech JusticeTech Policy Press, 2025
&#38;nbsp;
	︎How a new U.S.-flavored algorithm will alter the experience of TikTokFast Company, 2025
	︎Welcome to PallywoodSlate, 2025


	︎Palestinian flag emoji sparks Apple controversyArab News, 2024


	︎To Believe a Gazan Who Talks About Hunger Is to Believe the Other Side, and Doubt Your Own'Haaretz, 2024


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מלחמות הטיקטוק קלצ'קין מארח את תום דיבון


2025
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לא, בינה מלאכותית היא לא אנושית


תום דיבון מהצד השני
2026
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יש חיים אחרי המוות
 תום דיבון ב״סקרנית״

כאן 11, 2026
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האנטישמיות גואה בטיקטוק
תום דיבון


חדשות 12, 2024

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טיקטוק היא לא רק משחק &#38;nbsp;
תום דיבון מסביר


האוניברסיטה העברית


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		<title>TEACHING</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 09:40:31 +0000</pubDate>

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	TEACHING

︎︎︎ Hebrew University of Jerusalem

︎︎︎ Reichman University, Herzliya


	B.A.&#38;nbsp; 

	Social Media Platforms: Cultures of Mediated Self 
Introduction to Propaganda In The Media Qualitative Research Methods Communication Institutions


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	M.A.


	Advanced Qualitative Research Methods

Research Seminar: Platforms and Digital CulturesTikTok Cultures: Activism, Protest and Conflict

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