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From Viewers to Community: How The Sidemen Fans Build Connection Through YouTube and TikTok – Isabeau Taylor-Schacht
Today, I’ll be presenting my conference paper exploring the question: how do people form connections and communities through social media? To answer this, I analyse the fan community surrounding the Sidemen, focusing specifically on YouTube and TikTok. I’ll argue that social media affordances, such as commenting, algorithmic visibility, and participatory content creation, transform fans from…
Question 1: When I think back on my presentation, I see that one of its shortcomings was that I neglected…