Religion on Twitter: communalization in event-based hashtag discourses
Abstract: In this article, we examine the question of religious communalization on the micro-blogging service Twitter. Twitter has only relatively recently been adopted as a field of research by scholars of media and religion, and the question of religious community building on Twitter has yet to...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue on the Dynamics of Religion, Media, and Community |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg University Publishing
2019-04-08
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Online - Heidelberg journal of religions on the internet
Year: 2019, Volume: 14, Pages: 108-130 |
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| Summary: | Abstract: In this article, we examine the question of religious communalization on the micro-blogging service Twitter. Twitter has only relatively recently been adopted as a field of research by scholars of media and religion, and the question of religious community building on Twitter has yet to be addressed. Along with conceptualizations of Twitter as a social network and a social medium, we present specific approaches to community and the emergence of ommunal identity. Drawing on theories of community building online as well as offline, this study emphasizes mediated communication as central in the formation of community. Finally, through an analysis of postings under the hashtag #WhatBritishMuslimsReallyThink, we outline how Twitter is used for event-based communication and emotional affiliation. In this way,Twitter is conceptualized as a digital space in which fleeting communities may emerge in the process of communicative event communalization. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 09.05.2019 |
| ISSN: | 1861-5813 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Online - Heidelberg journal of religions on the internet
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17885/heiup.rel.2019.0.23950 |