Musikens roll i Tiktok

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this thesis is to examine how teenagers in high school experience and use music in the app Tiktok with the aim to better understand how digital tools can be used in music education. In an app such as Tiktok there are many modes intertwined. I interviewed seven teenagers in two groups where they had to choose one video that contained any type of music to show to the rest of the group. The interviews were filmed in order to be analysed on the basis of a social semiotic multimodal discourse analysis. The same analyse model applied to the analyse of the actual videos. The results were then compared to each other. It showed that the music is often the mode that creates meaning in the video and makes the other modes cohere. It also showed that there are many different discourses in Tiktok that use different combinations of modes to create meaning. The teenagers were well aware about the discourses and how music was used in different ways depending on the discourse, even though they were not always aware about the importance of the music for coherence. They had no problem in navigating, interpret, read and combine the different signs and modes to understand the humor or the purpose of a video. Some of them also produced videos in a specific genre or discourse, using the suitable modes.