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‘SwiftTok’, How Social Media Affordances on TikTok Shape the Swiftie Community
How social media, specifically TikTok, allows for the formation of connections and communities within fan culture, specifically within the Taylor Swift fandom. …
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The Fans of the Gospels & The Fandom of The Chosen
NETS2004 A2 Conference Paper Presentation “How do people form social connections and communities through social media?” Topic: Fan Culture In this video, I present my case that the fandom of The Chosen was formed as a community using three high-level social media affordances: Fans as stakeholders Fans as advocates Fans as an affective public I…
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K-POP ON TWITTER: SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATIVE AFFORDANCES AND THE FORMATION OF STAN- Peter Stroud
This presentation explores how K-pop fandom utilises various Twitter affordances including social and communicative affordances to form community and connections on Twitter. Using the concepts of Hashtag Hijacking, Stan, Communicative affordances, Social Affordances, Publics, Community and Fandom, the presentations argues that the K-pop fandom utilises Stans and hashtag hijacking to construct communities through active participation,…
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Participation as Labour: Social Media Affordances and the Formation of BTS ARMY — aksah mathew
This presentation explores how BTS’s fandom, ARMY, forms communities through social media platforms such as TikTok and X. Using concepts including platform affordances, participatory culture, fandom publics, and digital labour, the presentation argues that fan communities are built through active participation, shared visibility, and coordinated engagement, while also considering how fan practices can also act…
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Fandom Public and Community on Discord: The Chase Atlantic Fandom by Holly Andrews – 22309268
I argue that the Chase Atlantic discord server forms and maintains a fandom public and fosters community development through the platform’s social affordances enabled by server channels, server-member roles, and application programming interfaces. Key concepts: Social media platform affordances (Zulli & Zulli, 2022, p. 1874) Fandom Publics (Zhang, 2016, pp. 128-131) Communities (Bruns, 2023, p.…
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From Scroll to Ummah: How TikTok and Discord Shape Transnational Muslim Communities — Asli Keskin
This presentation explores how social media platforms shape the formation of transnational Muslim communities. Focusing on TikTok and Discord, it examines how platform affordances influence interaction, identity, and belonging. TikTok enables visibility, emotional engagement, and public discussion, while Discord supports more structured and sustained interaction. Together, these platforms demonstrate how online communities are formed through…
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Slushy Noobz- Fandom Culture by Robin Legaspi
This video dives into the Slushy Noobz fandom and how it has grown into a tight‑knit online community. I explore how fans use TikTok, Instagram, and Discord to create shared meaning, build inside jokes, and form a fandom public. Using media theory and real examples, I show how platform features and participatory culture help shape…
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How social media affordances enable LGBTQIA+ individuals to construct safe and supportive communities for self-expression, particularly when offline environments are unsafe or inaccessible by Ella Moss
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“The Acceptance and Uniting My Hero Academia Anime Cosplay Community through Instagram, enabling social media global connectivity” – Myron Evan Anak Flynn
This video presentation analyze on My Hero Academia cosplay community facing the issue of marginalization on racism. Instagram as a chosen social media platform to study this issue to observe the behavior of users and identify content creators who does cosplaying that enables social interaction among the community. Furthermore, this video presentation discuss the social…
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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…