{"id":5348,"date":"2025-04-25T07:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2025-04-25T07:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:51:47","slug":"linkedin-persistent-pervasive-communities-or-diluted-performative-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5348\/linkedin-persistent-pervasive-communities-or-diluted-performative-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn: Persistent Pervasive Communities or Diluted Performative Connections?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract\n\n\n\nLinkedIn, that massive professional networking site we all know, has totally changed how we connect in our work lives. But we have to ask at what cost? In this paper, I have taken a look at LinkedIn through Hampton's idea of 'persistent and pervasive' communities and found that despite connecting an incredible 1.1 billion people worldwide, LinkedIn is slowly throttling real community building by obsessing over metrics and algorithms. It has us chasing likes and shares like we're teenagers <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5348\/linkedin-persistent-pervasive-communities-or-diluted-performative-connections\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract LinkedIn, that massive professional networking site we all know, has totally changed how we connect in our work lives. But we have to ask at what cost? In this paper, I have taken a look at LinkedIn through Hampton&#8217;s idea of &#8216;persistent and pervasive&#8217; communities and found that despite connecting an incredible 1.1 billion people worldwide, LinkedIn is slowly throttling real community building by obsessing over metrics and algorithms. It has us chasing likes and shares like we&#8217;re teenagers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1449,1451,1447,1443,1446,1444,1445,1448,1442,1450,1417],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","tag-communitiesofpractice","tag-dcn2025","tag-filterbubbles","tag-hamptonframework","tag-metrics","tag-persistentcommunities","tag-pervasivecommunities","tag-professionalidentity","tag-socialmedia-linkedin-professionalnetworking-onlinecommunities-digitalcommunities-socialcapital","tag-socialnetworks","tag-algorithms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","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\/516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5349,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}