Identity Politics in a Mediatized Religious Environment on Facebook: Yes to Wearing the Cross Whenever and Wherever I Choose
The Norwegian Facebook page Yes to Wearing the Cross Whenever and Wherever I Choose was initially created to protest the prohibition of the cross for nrk news anchors. Yet, many of the discussions and audience interactions transpired into heated religio-political debates with strong elements of anti...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of religion in Europe
Año: 2017, Volumen: 10, Número: 4, Páginas: 457-486 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Norwegen
/ Media social
/ Cristianismo
/ Cruz
/ Religión
/ Debate
/ Identidad cultural
/ Islamofobía
/ Xenofobia
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | AD Sociología de la religión AG Vida religiosa CB Existencia cristiana CG Cristianismo y política KBE Escandinavia |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
media and religion
media anthropology
mediatized conflict
Islamophobia
Facebook debates
politics
social media
Christianity
xenophobia
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Sumario: | The Norwegian Facebook page Yes to Wearing the Cross Whenever and Wherever I Choose was initially created to protest the prohibition of the cross for nrk news anchors. Yet, many of the discussions and audience interactions transpired into heated religio-political debates with strong elements of anti-Muslim, xenophobic, anti-secular, and anti-atheist sentiments. This study aims to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the interplay between media and religion by providing new insights on the variety of ways in which media audiences may ‘add a series of dynamics to conflicts, namely, amplification, framing and performative agency, and co-structuring’ and ‘perform conflict’, as formulated by Hjarvard et al. It is argued that mediatized conflicts with inherent trigger themes, which tug at core religio-political identity issues, also tend to evoke emotional responses, which, in turn, inspire social media users to perform the conflict in ways that multiply the conflict(s). |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Obras secundarias: | In: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-01004001 |