{"id":3768,"date":"2024-04-22T04:56:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T20:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T05:50:32","slug":"balancing-authenticity-and-branding-influencers-struggle-on-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/ioa\/3768\/balancing-authenticity-and-branding-influencers-struggle-on-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing Authenticity and Branding: Influencers&#8217; Struggle on Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/authenticity-is-everything-scaled-1-e1713732947722-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThesis\r\nWhile Instagram provides a powerful tool for influencers to shape brands and interact with audiences, its highly curated nature often leads to maintaining authenticity, as influencers face pressure between genuine expression and conforming to branding strategies, thus undermining the trustworthiness of their online personas.\r\n&nbsp;\r\nABSTRACT\r\nThis essay delves into the evolving dynamics of authenticity versus aesthetic appeal among influencers on Instagram, focusing on the ramifications <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/ioa\/3768\/balancing-authenticity-and-branding-influencers-struggle-on-instagram\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thesis While Instagram provides a powerful tool for influencers to shape brands and interact with audiences, its highly curated nature often leads to maintaining authenticity, as influencers face pressure between genuine expression and conforming to branding strategies, thus undermining the trustworthiness of their online personas. &nbsp; ABSTRACT This essay delves into the evolving dynamics of authenticity versus aesthetic appeal among influencers on Instagram, focusing on the ramifications &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":3773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ioa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","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\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}