{"id":5352,"date":"2025-04-25T10:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2025-04-25T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:13:26","slug":"vaccines-politics-and-ptsd-a-look-into-the-effects-of-social-media-during-the-pandemic-and-how-it-shapes-our-society-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5352\/vaccines-politics-and-ptsd-a-look-into-the-effects-of-social-media-during-the-pandemic-and-how-it-shapes-our-society-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccines, politics, and PTSD. A look into the effects of social media during the pandemic, and how it shapes our society today."},"content":{"rendered":"\nIntroduction\n\n\n\nIf COVID-19 never happened, would Musk \u201chave become meme\u201d? Can Tik Tok thank the pandemic for its explosive user engagement? \u00a0How did isolation effect how people interact with one another, and how we engage now? Would we see less phones at music concerts, or while riding the train? This article explores how social media behaved as a substitute for social interaction, and the after-effects of leaning on it while we had no other choice. First, it will explore how engagement with <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5352\/vaccines-politics-and-ptsd-a-look-into-the-effects-of-social-media-during-the-pandemic-and-how-it-shapes-our-society-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction If COVID-19 never happened, would Musk \u201chave become meme\u201d? Can Tik Tok thank the pandemic for its explosive user engagement? \u00a0How did isolation effect how people interact with one another, and how we engage now? Would we see less phones at music concerts, or while riding the train? This article explores how social media behaved as a substitute for social interaction, and the after-effects of leaning on it while we had no other choice. First, it will explore how engagement with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","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\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}