{"id":3259,"date":"2024-04-22T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T01:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2024-04-28T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T03:47:38","slug":"social-media-influencer-communities-as-a-third-space-anna-pauls-tik-tok-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/csm\/3259\/social-media-influencer-communities-as-a-third-space-anna-pauls-tik-tok-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Influencer Communities as a \u201cThird Space\u201d: Anna Paul\u2019s Tik Tok Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/tiktok-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nABSTRACT\r\nThe popularisation of social media platforms has birthed of a new type of celebrity; Social Media Influencers (SMI\u2019s). To maintain their popularity on expansive digital platforms with so much to offer, SMIs such as popular TikTok influencer Anna Paul must form and maintain nuanced digital communities that are regularly interacted with. Using Anna Paul\u2019s TikTok community as a tool of assessment, this paper explores the idea of social media as a \u201cThird Space\u201d, emphasising <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/csm\/3259\/social-media-influencer-communities-as-a-third-space-anna-pauls-tik-tok-empire\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT The popularisation of social media platforms has birthed of a new type of celebrity; Social Media Influencers (SMI\u2019s). To maintain their popularity on expansive digital platforms with so much to offer, SMIs such as popular TikTok influencer Anna Paul must form and maintain nuanced digital communities that are regularly interacted with. Using Anna Paul\u2019s TikTok community as a tool of assessment, this paper explores the idea of social media as a \u201cThird Space\u201d, emphasising &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":3863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[894,893,510,571,895,480,477,896],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csm","tag-annapaul","tag-fancommunities","tag-onlinecommunities","tag-smcn2024","tag-socialmediainfluencer","tag-thirdplace","tag-tiktok","tag-tiktokinfluencers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}