{"id":5131,"date":"2025-04-21T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2025-04-21T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:08:32","slug":"athletes-vs-toxic-online-networks-in-their-pursuit-for-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5131\/athletes-vs-toxic-online-networks-in-their-pursuit-for-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes vs Toxic Online Networks in their pursuit for Social Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\nAbstract:\n\n\n\nThe following paper explores the relationship athletes have with social media in regards to their stances on social issues. The paper argues that athletes are now unable to express thoughts and opinions on society without facing toxic backlash through online networks. The arguments and points raised provide an insight into the relationship online networks have with social change, whether it be positive or the inverse. Case studies regarding high profile athletes such as Colin Kapernick, <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5131\/athletes-vs-toxic-online-networks-in-their-pursuit-for-social-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: The following paper explores the relationship athletes have with social media in regards to their stances on social issues. The paper argues that athletes are now unable to express thoughts and opinions on society without facing toxic backlash through online networks. The arguments and points raised provide an insight into the relationship online networks have with social change, whether it be positive or the inverse. Case studies regarding high profile athletes such as Colin Kapernick, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1327,1330,1329,1328,1310],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc","tag-athletes","tag-case-study","tag-online-networks","tag-social-change","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","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\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}