{"id":7756,"date":"2026-04-30T17:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:36:09","slug":"networked-neurodivergence-how-tiktok-enables-autistic-community-formation-sarah-toovey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/disability-xvii\/7756\/networked-neurodivergence-how-tiktok-enables-autistic-community-formation-sarah-toovey\/","title":{"rendered":"Networked Neurodivergence: How TikTok Enables Autistic Community Formation | Sarah Toovey"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThis presentation examines how autistic communities form on TikTok, focusing on content shared under hashtags such as #ActuallyAutistic and #AutismTikTok. It argues that TikTok does not simply host these communities, but actively shapes their formation through algorithmic curation and participatory features. Drawing on concepts including clustered publics, imitation publics, and biographical illumination, the presentation explores how users are connected through the platform\u2019s recommendation system, <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/disability-xvii\/7756\/networked-neurodivergence-how-tiktok-enables-autistic-community-formation-sarah-toovey\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation examines how autistic communities form on TikTok, focusing on content shared under hashtags such as #ActuallyAutistic and #AutismTikTok. It argues that TikTok does not simply host these communities, but actively shapes their formation through algorithmic curation and participatory features. Drawing on concepts including clustered publics, imitation publics, and biographical illumination, the presentation explores how users are connected through the platform\u2019s recommendation system, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1999,1998,1809,1883,1787,1792],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability-xvii","tag-actually-autistic","tag-autism","tag-community","tag-disability","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","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\/717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7760,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions\/7760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}