{"id":7048,"date":"2026-04-24T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:02:40","slug":"the-bts-army-on-tiktok-how-fans-form-connection-and-community-through-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/fan-culture-xvii\/7048\/the-bts-army-on-tiktok-how-fans-form-connection-and-community-through-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The BTS ARMY on TikTok, How Fans Form Connection and Community Through Social Media &#8211; Kahlee Thomason"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThis 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 express belonging through common language, active creation and engagement with content, as well as connection <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/fan-culture-xvii\/7048\/the-bts-army-on-tiktok-how-fans-form-connection-and-community-through-social-media\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 express belonging through common language, active creation and engagement with content, as well as connection &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1864,1863,1809,1792],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fan-culture-xvii","tag-army","tag-bts","tag-community","tag-tiktok"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","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\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7833,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/7833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}