{"id":7638,"date":"2026-04-29T18:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:50:31","slug":"youth-social-media-and-digital-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/youth-xvii\/7638\/youth-social-media-and-digital-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth, Social Media, and Digital Communities &#8212; Flynn McQuade"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIn this video, I talk about how young people connect and build communities through social media. It might seem like it\u2019s all just about chatting and sharing, but I argue that things like algorithms and platform features actually play a big role in shaping those connections. I also bring in ideas like networked publics to show how social media creates spaces where people can express themselves and find a sense of belonging. To make it more real, I look at examples like Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities, <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/youth-xvii\/7638\/youth-social-media-and-digital-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, I talk about how young people connect and build communities through social media. It might seem like it\u2019s all just about chatting and sharing, but I argue that things like algorithms and platform features actually play a big role in shaping those connections. I also bring in ideas like networked publics to show how social media creates spaces where people can express themselves and find a sense of belonging. To make it more real, I look at examples like Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1786],"tags":[1980,1842,2017,2018,1787,1792,1856],"class_list":["post-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youth-xvii","tag-algorithm","tag-affordances","tag-digital-media","tag-online-communities","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok","tag-youth"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638","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\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7740,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions\/7740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}