{"id":5822,"date":"2025-04-28T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T23:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2025-04-28T07:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T23:11:24","slug":"how-instagram-influencers-have-redefined-authenticity-within-the-social-media-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5822\/how-instagram-influencers-have-redefined-authenticity-within-the-social-media-space\/","title":{"rendered":"How Instagram Influencers Have Redefined Authenticity Within The Social Media Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThis paper explores the question: How have Instagram influencers reshaped the concept of authenticity in online spaces? As social media becomes increasingly more advertisments, content that appears genuine and personal is often carefully created to appear to different target audiences. This paper argues that Instagram influencers have redefined authenticity by blurring the boundary between genuine self-expression and commercial advertisments. It analyses how different companies use various different <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5822\/how-instagram-influencers-have-redefined-authenticity-within-the-social-media-space\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper explores the question: How have Instagram influencers reshaped the concept of authenticity in online spaces? As social media becomes increasingly more advertisments, content that appears genuine and personal is often carefully created to appear to different target audiences. This paper argues that Instagram influencers have redefined authenticity by blurring the boundary between genuine self-expression and commercial advertisments. It analyses how different companies use various different &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5822","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\/5822","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5825,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}