{"id":6178,"date":"2025-04-30T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=6178"},"modified":"2025-04-30T00:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:02:28","slug":"how-can-instagram-shape-and-maintain-online-communities-through-visual-identity-expression-tag-driven-discovery-mechanisms-and-interactive-emotional-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6178\/how-can-instagram-shape-and-maintain-online-communities-through-visual-identity-expression-tag-driven-discovery-mechanisms-and-interactive-emotional-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"How can Instagram shape and maintain online communities through visual identity expression, tag-driven discovery mechanisms and interactive emotional connections?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIntroduction\n\n\n\nIn the modern digital age, community and belonging are increasingly shaped not by physical proximity, but by online connections. Social media platforms like Instagram have become essential tools for people to express identity, find like-minded individuals, and build support networks across the globe. Instagram currently have more than one billion active users, many of whom are \"digital natives,\" having grown up during the internet era. For this group, engaging socially, obtaining <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6178\/how-can-instagram-shape-and-maintain-online-communities-through-visual-identity-expression-tag-driven-discovery-mechanisms-and-interactive-emotional-connections\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction In the modern digital age, community and belonging are increasingly shaped not by physical proximity, but by online connections. Social media platforms like Instagram have become essential tools for people to express identity, find like-minded individuals, and build support networks across the globe. Instagram currently have more than one billion active users, many of whom are &#8220;digital natives,&#8221; having grown up during the internet era. For this group, engaging socially, obtaining &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1303,1304,1315,1310],"class_list":["post-6178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","tag-communities","tag-identity","tag-instagram","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178","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\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6179,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions\/6179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}