{"id":5416,"date":"2025-04-26T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2025-04-26T15:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:34:13","slug":"tiktok-and-the-identity-crisis-social-medias-ability-to-redefine-the-meaning-of-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/disability\/5416\/tiktok-and-the-identity-crisis-social-medias-ability-to-redefine-the-meaning-of-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok and the Identity Crisis: Social Media&#8217;s Ability to Redefine the Meaning of Identity."},"content":{"rendered":"\nThis paper examines the so-called \u201cfluidity\u201d of an online identity and how this idea is challenged through algorithms, specifically on the social media platform, TikTok. It looks at how Influencers shape their online identities to fit a certain audience as well as their impact on young people and social comparison. Using Australian businesswoman Anna Paul, and Wellness creator, Alpha (name anonymous) as examples, this paper examines how an online persona can be strategically shaped in a way <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/disability\/5416\/tiktok-and-the-identity-crisis-social-medias-ability-to-redefine-the-meaning-of-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper examines the so-called \u201cfluidity\u201d of an online identity and how this idea is challenged through algorithms, specifically on the social media platform, TikTok. It looks at how Influencers shape their online identities to fit a certain audience as well as their impact on young people and social comparison. Using Australian businesswoman Anna Paul, and Wellness creator, Alpha (name anonymous) as examples, this paper examines how an online persona can be strategically shaped in a way &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1417,1371,1355,1506,1505,1304,1313,1504,1310,1289],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability","tag-algorithms","tag-cancel-culture","tag-fake","tag-fake-identity","tag-gen-z-2","tag-identity","tag-influencers","tag-social-comparison","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5418,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/5418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}