{"id":5071,"date":"2025-04-19T14:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2025-04-30T08:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T00:04:28","slug":"the-impact-of-online-communities-through-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5071\/the-impact-of-online-communities-through-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and how they influence Online Identity, and enable Collective Action through their Digital Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThe rise of the internet has changed the way people connect, removing the limitations of physical distance and allowing digital communities to form through global social networks. This essay explores how online spaces act as digital third spaces, places where people interact freely outside of work or personal responsibilities. Platforms like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit provide open and accessible hubs for conversation and connection. These digital spaces also help individuals <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5071\/the-impact-of-online-communities-through-social-media\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The rise of the internet has changed the way people connect, removing the limitations of physical distance and allowing digital communities to form through global social networks. This essay explores how online spaces act as digital third spaces, places where people interact freely outside of work or personal responsibilities. Platforms like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit provide open and accessible hubs for conversation and connection. These digital spaces also help individuals &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1309,1305,1303,1304,1306],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","tag-activism","tag-belonging","tag-communities","tag-identity","tag-privacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6187,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions\/6187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}