The New Statesman Daily The best of the New Statesman, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Select and enter your email address Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. “‘Made in China’, where goods designed elsewhere would be put together in the Far East to take advantage of cheap labour, is mutating into ‘Created in China’: where ideas are born, and then spread to the West,” he writes. Stokel-Walker makes the case that TikTok – an app that has grown rapidly over the past year, as hundreds of millions downloaded it for the first time at the start of the pandemic in March 2020 – is the first Chinese tech company to break serious ground in the West, challenging the dominance of Silicon Valley. “The fundamental thinking behind this is that every kind of video format for self-expression and social communication.” In 2018, Musical.ly was bought and renamed “TikTok”. “As long as it’s a video format, we think we can do it,” he said to tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker at the time. He knew then that short-form video – skits, dances and lip-syncs – was going to become the next big thing. His video-sharing app, Musical.ly, had just crashed under the weight of 100 million users. If you are interested in checking it out go for it but I recommend skipping this one.When the civil engineer Alex Zhu woke up in Shanghai on the morning of 22 July 2016, he had a gut feeling – one that would shape the future of Western popular culture. It's a watchable documentary but it's nothing really innovative. One of the positives thing I can say is that at least it wasn't terribly made and it's not unwatchable. Certain moments shown are very clear that this documentary struggles on trying not to be one-sided. There were some good interviews that I did enjoy listening to but there were some interviews that felt really out of place. The editing is normal and the pacing is alright. I understand if this documentary is for viewers who don't know much about TikTok as an app but what would they really get out from it? The presentation of the camerawork is decent and the sound design is pretty good. There wasn't much to really learn about because it didn't really do anything new or discussed something we never heard of before. There lacks a focus as there are many information and ideas discussed but the film has no idea how to handle each one of them throughly and it feels all jammed up together like a messy sandwich. As a person who knows about TikTok and even uses it, this documentary doesn't really do much justice. Despite good points are brought up and some informative discussions, the movie doesn't really bring anything new to the table and ends up being a standard basic documentary that you can easily predict miles away. Director Shalini Kantayya tries to bring something new on the history of TikTok, the controversies surrounding them and how TikTok is impactful to society and citizens. Examines the security issues, global political challenges, and racial biases behind the history-making app. Focuses on one of the most influential platforms of the contemporary social media landscape, TIKTOK, BOOM. Originally premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in the U.
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