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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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The BTS ARMY on TikTok, How Fans Form Connection and Community Through Social Media – Kahlee Thomason
This presentation explores how people form communities through social media, using the BTS ARMY on TikTok as a case study. By analysing public TikTok posts, including videos, captions and comment sections, it identifies how fans connect and interact online.The findings show that communities are formed through shared identity, participation, global interaction and emotional support. Fans…
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