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Communities and Social Media

Twitch.TV, Empowering Fan Communities

Brodie Kirk24 Comments

Abstract
Twitch over the last decade has risen to prominence throughout the internet specifically in the gaming community. This article focusses primarily on the research of Taylor (2018) and Lin et al. (2019) which outline ‘Twitch’s’ (https://www.twitch.tv/) features as a platform and how they impact their audience. Using this research as a base a comparison between ‘Twitch’ and previous entertainment medias is used to argue that streaming platforms such as ‘Twitch’ have changed the relationship between creators and fan communities empowering them by, requiring creators to interact with their community to succeed, integrating fan communities into content production, and enabling fan communities to have a greater influence over the content they receive.

Communities and Social Media

Social media and the re-structuring of communities : Changing perceptions.

Anurag Arya22 Comments

Abstract: Social media has changed how the sense of ‘community’ is perceived. Communities are closely tied to how people identify with them. This paper will argue that social media has changed how this identification is made, bridging old divisions, and leading to the formation of new types of inclusive and diverse communities that eschew traditional social markers. These new communities may serve various purposes, from political to simply an integration and negotiation of new kinds of identity. Read more […]

Communities and Social Media

Social Media as A Third Space for Participation: Online Gaming Communities

Bethani Lu Ri19 Comments

Offline_Reading_VersionDownload Abstract The importance of participation within communities has been emphasised by numerous articles, with most of them placing the blame on the decrease in offline community participation towards technological advancements. However, the blame cannot be placed entirely on the internet as it has given birth to a new form of community, online community. This paper will examine the shift from offline to online community but comparing the difference in structure, Read more […]

Online Networks and Social Change

The Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Body Image

Eleanor Mitchell18 Comments

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of active engagement on social media platforms such as Instagram and Tumblr, on negative body image association among adolescents. The rise of the internet and social media platforms have resulted in an increasing number of issues related to self-esteem negative body image such as detrimental online trends, eating disorders and dangerous pro anorexia websites. This paper will use Leon Festinger’s social comparison theory to Read more […]

Communities and Social Media

Finding Mental Well-being and Community Through Nature YouTube Channels

Jessica Rhodes16 Comments

Finding Mental Well-being and Community Through Nature YouTube Channels is on the rise. The world has been sent reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and a spree of lockdown restrictions which resulted in isolation from the natural world and local community. This paper explores how social media, and YouTube in particular, might offer a third space in which people might still reap the benefits of nature and community through a digital medium.

Communities and Social Media

The role of social media: Improving content sharing and communication between teachers and students

Matthew Ifkovich18 Comments

ConferencePaper_MattIfkovichDownload Since the introduction of Web 2.0, the potential to network, share content and communicate with others has improved greatly. In the education industry prior to social media, the potential to network and communicate with others was far less. Teachers and students have used social media as a third-place to share content and communicate with one another. Being able to network globally with anyone almost instantly is something that is truly remarkable. To demonstrate Read more […]

Communities and Social Media

Strengthening Deaf Community Ties Through Social Media Platforms

Lily Conlin11 Comments

Abstract
This paper centres around the deaf community strengthening its ties through social media platforms, such as Facebook, by deaf individuals supporting one another and providing helpful advice in ways that are not possible in traditional communities. This focus results in the paper falling into the Social Media Communities and Networks stream of the conference. Social media can be utilised as a third place to inform and support deaf individuals in the case of disasters and emergencies using deaf-friendly forms of communication. Social media groups on platforms such as Facebook are beneficial for deaf members to recount the everyday struggles they frequently encounter as part of the deaf world and receive support and advice from other deaf individuals who can relate to the same experiences. Social media platforms are effective channels for deaf individuals to motivate and inspire one another to achieve their goals in life. Social media enables deaf individuals to connect from across the world to form persistent contacts that defy time and location. These contacts result in a pervasive awareness of what others in the deaf community do in their day to day lives. This support and strengthening of ties within the deaf community is made possible by the accessibility of social media platforms for deaf users. The use of videos, captions, comments and contrasting colours makes it easy for deaf users to interact with each other.