{"id":5550,"date":"2025-04-27T18:53:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T10:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2025-04-27T19:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:09:04","slug":"ghosting-my-identity-how-social-media-shapes-the-identities-of-gen-z-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5550\/ghosting-my-identity-how-social-media-shapes-the-identities-of-gen-z-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosting My Identity: How Social Media Shapes the Identities of Gen Z Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>This paper explores how Gen Z immigrants navigate digital spaces by curating their identities for visibility and survival. Through personal reflection and academic theory, it highlights how social media platforms shape identity performance, emotional labour, and the negotiation of belonging in an online world that rewards polished narratives over authentic expression. <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5550\/ghosting-my-identity-how-social-media-shapes-the-identities-of-gen-z-immigrants\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper explores how Gen Z immigrants navigate digital spaces by curating their identities for visibility and survival. Through personal reflection and academic theory, it highlights how social media platforms shape identity performance, emotional labour, and the negotiation of belonging in an online world that rewards polished narratives over authentic expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":5560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1303,1304,1617,1313,1315,1616,1615,1329,1310],"class_list":["post-5550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ioa","tag-communities","tag-identity","tag-identity-and-online-advocacy","tag-influencers","tag-instagram","tag-online-advocacy","tag-online-identities","tag-online-networks","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550","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\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions\/5621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}