Tom Divon

Tom Divon is an ethnographer of user-platform interactions, focusing on creator culture, platform affordances, and user-generated content. He explores how platforms cultivate social-political cultures and facilitate participatory dynamics that allow creators to engage with activism, trauma, war, and conflict. Divon leads a network of scholars who examine TikTok’s cultural dominance in the MENA region. This initiative aims to dissect the complex creator cultures in the Middle East, intersecting human rights, freedom of creation and expression, and the obstacles imposed by authoritarian regimes. Follow him on X @TomDivon and Bluesky @tomdivon.bsky.social.