{"id":7655,"date":"2026-04-29T18:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/?p=7655"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:10:44","slug":"youth-identity-and-community-formation-through-deja-clarks-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/youth-xvii\/7655\/youth-identity-and-community-formation-through-deja-clarks-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Identity and Community Formation Through D\u00e9ja Clark&#8217;s Audience &#8212; Chelsea Leenaars"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThis paper argues that young people form communities on TikTok through shared identity performance, using Deja Clark as a case study. Her content demonstrates how platform affordances and imitation practices enable a sense of belonging within networked publics, while reinforcing social norms and pressures among youth.\n\n\n\nBoyd, d. (2014). \u2018Introduction\u2019 in It\u2019s complicated. Yale University Press. Pp.1-28 https:\/\/www.danah.org\/books\/ItsComplicated.pdf  \n\n\n\nBruns, A. (2023). From \u201cThe\u201d Public <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/youth-xvii\/7655\/youth-identity-and-community-formation-through-deja-clarks-audience\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper argues that young people form communities on TikTok through shared identity performance, using Deja Clark as a case study. Her content demonstrates how platform affordances and imitation practices enable a sense of belonging within networked publics, while reinforcing social norms and pressures among youth. Boyd, d. (2014). \u2018Introduction\u2019 in It\u2019s complicated. Yale University Press. Pp.1-28 https:\/\/www.danah.org\/books\/ItsComplicated.pdf Bruns, A. (2023). From \u201cThe\u201d Public &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1786],"tags":[1842,1982,1983,1845,1984,1981,1856],"class_list":["post-7655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youth-xvii","tag-affordances","tag-dejaclark","tag-immitationpublics","tag-influencer","tag-networkedpublics","tag-socialmeda","tag-youth"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655","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\/798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7739,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}