How Gen Z is using TikTok to engage voters & conversation

Megan Boler

Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Areas of Expertise

• Algorithms and bias
• Cambridge Analytica
• Digital activism and social media
• Emotion and popular culture
• Fake news
• How Gen Z is using TikTok to engage voters & conversation
• Media representation of gender and women
• Media: US military
• NRA and Parkland youth movement
• Philosophies of education
• Post-truth politics
• Propaganda and pedagogies
• Race in popular culture
• Role of social media in the election
• Russian interference in U.S. election
• Social implications of technology
• Social justice in political and cultural contexts
• Social media and youth
• Trump and media conflicts

Office: 416-978-1231
Home: 416-604-8970
Email: megan.boler@utoronto.ca