TikTok

Yeong Ju Lee examines informal language learning through TikTok and Instagram. A comparative study of public posts and ethnographic case studies using journals, interviews and participants’ media traces show how multimodal creation and networking enter everyday learning. The discussion connects these findings with ecological accounts of learning and possibilities for classroom teaching.

With the aging of the population, hearing loss represents a major concern of public health. Hearing aids are the main way to compensate for hearing loss, yet conventional signal treatment algorithms often fall short of providing an optimal performance in noisy situations. The raises of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is opening new avenues for more powerful hearing aids. However, information available for patients regarding AI-enhanced hearing aids are only scarce. Our aim here was to evaluate the availability of online information on artificial intelligence-enhanced hearing aids for patients, fo