Tom Divon

Tom Divon is a PhD student at the Department of Journalism and Communication at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His research focuses on digital culture, platform affordances, and user-generated content. Specifically, he explores TikTok's socio-political subcultures and their potential for education in three areas: TikTok users' engagement with history education, TikTok users' performative combat against antisemitism and hate speech and TikTok users' memetic participation in nationalism-driven conflicts, with a focus on Palestinian resistance.