{"id":5135,"date":"2025-04-21T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2025-04-21T12:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:23:54","slug":"social-media-the-rise-of-the-swifties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5135\/social-media-the-rise-of-the-swifties\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media: The rise of the Swifties\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/7a89427dd0e12ce40ce52d00ba766e2b-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>\n\n\n\n\nSocial media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram have transformed the way fan communities form and interact, fostering highly engaged and immersive digital communities and fandoms. Amongst these communities, the Taylor Swift fandom, also known as&nbsp;Swifties, demonstrates how social media amplifies&nbsp;parasocial relationships, enhances fan participation, and contributes to the creation of&nbsp;cult-like online communities. While passionate fan bases have existed long before social media, <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5135\/social-media-the-rise-of-the-swifties\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram have transformed the way fan communities form and interact, fostering highly engaged and immersive digital communities and fandoms. Amongst these communities, the Taylor Swift fandom, also known as&nbsp;Swifties, demonstrates how social media amplifies&nbsp;parasocial relationships, enhances fan participation, and contributes to the creation of&nbsp;cult-like online communities. While passionate fan bases have existed long before social media, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":522,"featured_media":5138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","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\/522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}