{"id":5516,"date":"2025-04-27T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:35:13","slug":"social-media-and-its-role-in-television-and-film-fandoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5516\/social-media-and-its-role-in-television-and-film-fandoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and its role in television and film fandoms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nTelevision and film in 2025 do not exist within a vacuum, the existence of these legacy forms of entertainment is complicated by the involvement of online communities and fanbases. I theorise in this paper that social media filter bubbles and algorithms create a useful sense of community amongst television and film fans but concurrently exacerbate or amplify toxic or unhealthy fandom elements by virtue of their various affordances and tools. This creates significant complexity in <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5516\/social-media-and-its-role-in-television-and-film-fandoms\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Television and film in 2025 do not exist within a vacuum, the existence of these legacy forms of entertainment is complicated by the involvement of online communities and fanbases. I theorise in this paper that social media filter bubbles and algorithms create a useful sense of community amongst television and film fans but concurrently exacerbate or amplify toxic or unhealthy fandom elements by virtue of their various affordances and tools. This creates significant complexity in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516","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\/567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}