{"id":5861,"date":"2025-04-28T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2025-05-11T21:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:37:48","slug":"the-role-of-social-media-in-facilitating-harmful-parasocial-relationships-and-online-conflict-a-case-study-of-tik-tok-influencer-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5861\/the-role-of-social-media-in-facilitating-harmful-parasocial-relationships-and-online-conflict-a-case-study-of-tik-tok-influencer-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Social Media in Facilitating Harmful Parasocial Relationships and Online Conflict: A Case Study of Tik Tok Influencer Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract: This paper aims to explore and examine the influence of social media in fostering emotionally intense parasocial relationships between influencers, content creators and their followers. It also investigates the effect of public disputes between influencers, which is often referred to as \u2018beef\u2019, and how the effect it has on their audiences. Throughout the paper relevant and current cases are drawn upon that involve creators such as Bhad Bhadie, Alabama Barker, Anna Paul and Mikaela <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5861\/the-role-of-social-media-in-facilitating-harmful-parasocial-relationships-and-online-conflict-a-case-study-of-tik-tok-influencer-culture\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: This paper aims to explore and examine the influence of social media in fostering emotionally intense parasocial relationships between influencers, content creators and their followers. It also investigates the effect of public disputes between influencers, which is often referred to as \u2018beef\u2019, and how the effect it has on their audiences. Throughout the paper relevant and current cases are drawn upon that involve creators such as Bhad Bhadie, Alabama Barker, Anna Paul and Mikaela &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5861","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\/5861","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\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5864,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}