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Humor and Identity on Twitter: #muslimcandyheartrejects as a Digital Space for Identity Construction

TitleHumor and Identity on Twitter: #muslimcandyheartrejects as a Digital Space for Identity Construction
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsWills, ERegan, Fecteau, AÉ
JournalJournal of Muslim Minority Affairs
Abstract

Through examining the hashtag #muslimcandyheartrejects, a one-time, short-term, joke hashtag used on Twitter among a group of Muslim tweeters in 2012, we argue that members of Muslim digital diaspora communities use social media to construct and reinforce a Muslim diaspora identity. The architecture of Twitter provides the structure for these engagements, while humor serves meaning-making, cohesion building, and tension-relief functions within the conversation. The conversation itself combines a variety of topics to both describe Muslim identity in diaspora and to critique both Muslim community practices and conditions for Muslims in non-Muslim countries.

URLhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602004.2016.1153825