Educational work on TikTok - opportunities and challenges for the migration society

We are very pleased to invite you to the discussion „Educational work on TikTok – opportunities and challenges for the migration society“ with Medina Scholte-Reh and Dilek Dipçin-Sarıoğlu. The event will take place on 02.07.2024 at 19.00 online via Zoom.

TikTok is the most popular social media platform among young people. According to Statista, around 73% of 16 to 19-year-old German respondents say they use TikTok. With its short, creative videos, it offers enormous potential for communicating educational content. People who have little access to educational opportunities can find learning formats that are easy to understand and at the same time enable more diverse representation.

At the same time, hate speech and misinformation are omnipresent on the platform. Actors use TikTok to target young people with anti-democratic and misanthropic content and thus intervene massively in the political opinion-forming process. Time to better understand the effects of the app in the context of educational work.

Together with Mendina Scholte-Reh and Dilek Dipçin-Sarıoğlu, we therefore want to discuss the following questions: What does political education on TikTok mean?Who benefits most from algorithms?What opportunities are there for political education, what dangers exist in the context of right-wing and authoritarian attitudes, for example? Which positions and attitudes gain greater visibility?

Mendina Scholte-Reh has been a research assistant at the Department of Empirical Educational Research at the FernUniversität in Hagen since October 2023.She has also been working in the Media Didactics department since February 2024.
She studied Educational Science (M.A.), Psychology and Philosophy (B.A.) at the Technical University of Dortmund. Her focus is on qualitative education and age research.

Dilek Dipçin-Sarıoğlu has been a research assistant at the Department of Empirical Educational Research at the FernUniversität in Hagen since February 2023. She is co-editor of the anthology „Islamismusprävention in pädagogischen Handlungsfeldern. Perspectives critical of racism“. Her work focuses on qualitative research methods, racism-critical perspectives on schools and education and approaches to migration education.

The event will be moderated by Aylin Çerik, journalist at Salon5.

We ask for a binding online registration until 01.07.2024.