{"id":5878,"date":"2025-04-28T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2025-05-07T01:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T17:52:05","slug":"the-online-swiftie-fandom-and-its-ability-to-foster-community-belonging-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5878\/the-online-swiftie-fandom-and-its-ability-to-foster-community-belonging-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Online Swiftie Fandom and its Ability to Foster Community, Belonging, and Identity."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis paper explores the online Taylor Swift fandom or 'Swifties' as they are colloquially known, and how they utilise the social media platform Instagram. It first addresses what a fandom is and how the Taylor Swift fandom operates on Instagram, it then discusses what a 'third place' is and suggests that the fandom on Instagram could be considered a third place. With a focus on how the fandom builds community, this paper analyses how Swifties create a sense of belonging within <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5878\/the-online-swiftie-fandom-and-its-ability-to-foster-community-belonging-and-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This paper explores the online Taylor Swift fandom or &#8216;Swifties&#8217; as they are colloquially known, and how they utilise the social media platform Instagram. It first addresses what a fandom is and how the Taylor Swift fandom operates on Instagram, it then discusses what a &#8216;third place&#8217; is and suggests that the fandom on Instagram could be considered a third place. With a focus on how the fandom builds community, this paper analyses how Swifties create a sense of belonging within &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5878","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\/5878","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\/606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6349,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions\/6349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}