{"id":5399,"date":"2025-04-26T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2025-04-26T02:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:01:37","slug":"how-gen-z-use-discord-to-create-dynamic-and-engaging-communities-of-shared-interests-foster-a-sense-of-ownership-belonging-and-collaboration-through-its-communication-features-and-innovative-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5399\/how-gen-z-use-discord-to-create-dynamic-and-engaging-communities-of-shared-interests-foster-a-sense-of-ownership-belonging-and-collaboration-through-its-communication-features-and-innovative-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gen Z use Discord to create communities of shared interests, foster ownership, belonging and collaboration and its innovative digital tools."},"content":{"rendered":"\nTimothy Ho\n\n\n\nAbstract: The main purpose of this paper is to analyse how Generation Z individuals use Discord to create dynamic and engaging communities of shared interests, fostering a sense of ownership, belonging and collaboration through its communication features and innovative digital tools. This paper will discuss several main points on how Discord, a digital communication platform initially designed exclusively for gamers, has become a highly functional application where users can create <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5399\/how-gen-z-use-discord-to-create-dynamic-and-engaging-communities-of-shared-interests-foster-a-sense-of-ownership-belonging-and-collaboration-through-its-communication-features-and-innovative-digital\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Ho Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to analyse how Generation Z individuals use Discord to create dynamic and engaging communities of shared interests, fostering a sense of ownership, belonging and collaboration through its communication features and innovative digital tools. This paper will discuss several main points on how Discord, a digital communication platform initially designed exclusively for gamers, has become a highly functional application where users can create &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1472,1357,1303,1298,1471,1469,1476,1467,1470,1473,1310,1475],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","tag-collaboration","tag-communication","tag-communities","tag-community","tag-digital-tools","tag-discord","tag-gaming","tag-gen-z","tag-generation-z","tag-ownership","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-platform"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","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\/549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5401,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions\/5401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}