{"id":6196,"date":"2025-04-30T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:10:19","slug":"do-social-media-platforms-promote-a-sense-of-belonging-or-division-among-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/uncategorized\/6196\/do-social-media-platforms-promote-a-sense-of-belonging-or-division-among-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Do social media platforms promote a sense of belonging or division among users?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract&nbsp;\n\n\n\nOver the past twenty years there has been an almighty change in both the digital and social landscape. The emergence of social platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and more recently TikTok has completely altered the way in which people interact and more so the way in which people form social identities and form a sense of belonging. In my opinion social media has become much a tool to create a sense of belonging among users, a tool to create and shape collective <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/uncategorized\/6196\/do-social-media-platforms-promote-a-sense-of-belonging-or-division-among-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract&nbsp; Over the past twenty years there has been an almighty change in both the digital and social landscape. The emergence of social platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and more recently TikTok has completely altered the way in which people interact and more so the way in which people form social identities and form a sense of belonging. In my opinion social media has become much a tool to create a sense of belonging among users, a tool to create and shape collective &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196","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\/638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6534,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}