{"id":5491,"date":"2025-04-27T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T03:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2025-04-27T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T03:47:45","slug":"toxic-by-algorithm-the-hidden-cost-of-influencer-culture-on-young-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/fan-culture\/5491\/toxic-by-algorithm-the-hidden-cost-of-influencer-culture-on-young-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic by Algorithm: The Hidden Cost of Influencer Culture on Young Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis paper looks at how content creators on Instagram and TikTok, influence young Australian men\u2019s views on masculinity by promoting toxic ideals and misogynistic messages. In the wider context of identity formation and digital culture, it argues that these platforms often reinforce traditional, dominant forms of masculinity, which can contribute to normalising gender-based power inequalities and pushing aside alternative, more inclusive expressions of masculinity. By analysing popular ...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abstract This paper looks at how content creators on Instagram and TikTok, influence young Australian men\u2019s views on masculinity by promoting toxic ideals and misogynistic messages. In the wider context of identity formation and digital culture, it argues that these platforms often reinforce traditional, dominant forms of masculinity, which can contribute to normalising gender-based power inequalities and pushing aside alternative, more inclusive expressions of masculinity. By analysing popular …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":5495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1498,1318,1406,1417,1390,1563,1314,1580,1303,1578,1557,1583,1304,1313,1315,1311,1579,1329,1581,1574,1328,1310,1289,1573,1312,1582,1576,1400],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fan-culture","tag-onlinenetworksandsocialchange","tag-advocacy","tag-algorithm","tag-algorithms","tag-andrew-tate","tag-body-image","tag-bodyimage","tag-change","tag-communities","tag-fitness","tag-genz","tag-ideals","tag-identity","tag-influencers","tag-instagram","tag-mentalhealth","tag-online-conference","tag-online-networks","tag-representation","tag-smcn25","tag-social-change","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok","tag-toxic-masculinity","tag-trends","tag-twitch","tag-twitter-2","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}