{"id":6397,"date":"2025-05-08T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T06:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2025-05-10T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:50:22","slug":"viral-politics-how-the-rise-of-short-form-content-platforms-has-transformed-the-way-gen-z-consumes-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6397\/viral-politics-how-the-rise-of-short-form-content-platforms-has-transformed-the-way-gen-z-consumes-news-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Politics: How the Rise of Short-Form Content Platforms Has Transformed the Way Gen Z Consumes News Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIn an era characterised by nonstop scrolling and short-form content, conventional news outlets have lost prominence to social media behemoths such as Instagram and TikTok, particularly amongst Generation Z. As mentioned by Chen and Ha (2023)\u00a0Generation Z were the first generation born into the mass-adoption of the internet,\u00a0established a unique relationship with information and current events. Rather than accessing television programs or newspapers, they depend on social networking feeds, posts <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6397\/viral-politics-how-the-rise-of-short-form-content-platforms-has-transformed-the-way-gen-z-consumes-news-articles\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era characterised by nonstop scrolling and short-form content, conventional news outlets have lost prominence to social media behemoths such as Instagram and TikTok, particularly amongst Generation Z. As mentioned by Chen and Ha (2023)\u00a0Generation Z were the first generation born into the mass-adoption of the internet,\u00a0established a unique relationship with information and current events. Rather than accessing television programs or newspapers, they depend on social networking feeds, posts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6397","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\/6397","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6401,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}