Introduction by Dr Ruben Perez-Hidalgo & keynote by Professor Crystal Abidin: ‘Australia, according to TikTok: algorithmic ethnographies and multicultural folklore’ as part of a Symposium on Multicultural Algorithms in Australia held at the University of Sydney on Friday 20 September 2024.

Conventions of the ‘tourist experience’ in Australia is mediated by the design of their itinerary, the demeanour of their interlocutors, and their predisposition to ways of seeing. In a similar vein, readings of Australian culture on TikTok are negotiated by the infrastructure of the platform’s features, the silo or content community in which one is situated, and the personal and shared algorithmic literacies that proliferate. In this keynote, Professor Crystal Abidin reviews the anthropological practice of algorithmic ethnography, the multicultural folklore that spearhead and splinter discourse, and the implications on imaginaries of Australian culture.

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