Community Connections Through Social Media

This collection holds items that exhibit the ways that individuals maintain connections to their communities and society through social media platforms. The items displayed here highlight the use of hashtags as a way to preserve community connections and bridge the distance during the time of COVID-19. 

As we venture into a new territory of society online due to a global pandemic. We have had to learn and adjust to the new ways that we socialize, interact, and support one another. As a larger community and society living through this global pandemic, we have found different ways through social media platforms to care for and support one another. I believed it was necessary to document how we sustain community connections. I specifically looked at the app Tik Tok as social media is largely the way we are able to preserve a societal community. Throughout our time in quarantine, I was able to see how Tik Tok and the Tik Tok community adjusted their interactive platform relative to our global situation. I focused on how the Tik Tok community engaged in the interactive aspect of hashtags to maintain community. As time passed, Tik Tok adjusted its interactive hashtags to promote further community care and support in the form of donations to large foundations or #smallgestures of gifts to close family and friends.