{"id":6201,"date":"2025-04-30T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:38:40","slug":"skinnytok-and-the-rebrand-of-disordered-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6201\/skinnytok-and-the-rebrand-of-disordered-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"SkinnyTok and the Rebrand of Disordered Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstractThis paper investigates how TikTok\u2019s algorithmic architecture reinforces harmful weight-loss ideologies through the proliferation of SkinnyTok, particularly in the wake of widespread social media discourse around pharmaceutical weight-loss aids like Ozempic. Positioned within the \"Communities and Social Media\" stream, the paper argues that TikTok\u2019s affordances\u2014such as its algorithmic \"For You\" feed, looping short-form videos, and participatory remix culture\u2014create immersive digital <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6201\/skinnytok-and-the-rebrand-of-disordered-eating\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AbstractThis paper investigates how TikTok\u2019s algorithmic architecture reinforces harmful weight-loss ideologies through the proliferation of SkinnyTok, particularly in the wake of widespread social media discourse around pharmaceutical weight-loss aids like Ozempic. Positioned within the &#8220;Communities and Social Media&#8221; stream, the paper argues that TikTok\u2019s affordances\u2014such as its algorithmic &#8220;For You&#8221; feed, looping short-form videos, and participatory remix culture\u2014create immersive digital &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6201","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\/6201","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\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6203,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}