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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…
Question 1: When I think back on my presentation, I see that one of its shortcomings was that I neglected…