{"id":6550,"date":"2025-05-18T21:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=6550"},"modified":"2025-05-18T21:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:18:44","slug":"fragmented-belonging-platform-design-and-incidental-news-consumption-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6550\/fragmented-belonging-platform-design-and-incidental-news-consumption-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragmented Belonging: Platform Design and Incidental News Consumption on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIntroduction\n\n\n\nSocial media has revolutionised the original ideas of community, wherever I am. Whereas people can travel the world to join in many online groups, it seems society does not do the same with its discourse. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit are not only social platforms to share things and find out new information, they constitute how we do things with new information. Most of the news we get through the Web is incidental, finding it by accident while surfing, and is influenced <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6550\/fragmented-belonging-platform-design-and-incidental-news-consumption-on-social-media\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Social media has revolutionised the original ideas of community, wherever I am. Whereas people can travel the world to join in many online groups, it seems society does not do the same with its discourse. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit are not only social platforms to share things and find out new information, they constitute how we do things with new information. Most of the news we get through the Web is incidental, finding it by accident while surfing, and is influenced &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","category-onsc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6552,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions\/6552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}