@article {2848,
	title = {Introduction Essay: Special Issue of RMDC on Public Scholarship, Media and Religion},
	journal = {Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture},
	year = {2020},
	keywords = {Digital media; religion; public scholarship},
	url = {https://brill.com/view/journals/rmdc/9/2/article-p141_141.xml?language=en},
	author = {Peterson, Kristin M. and Campbell, Heidi A.}
}
@article {2831,
	title = {Pushing boundaries and blurring categories in digital media and religion research},
	journal = {Sociology Compass},
	year = {2020},
	abstract = {As religious identity and spiritual practices transform and expand in the digital media moment, this article advocates for more critical scholarship on media and religion that examines the complex ways that individuals make meaning in the digital age. First, I present an overview of foundational media and religion theories that analyze the interactions between these ever-changing fields, such as the culturalist tradition, mediatization theory, and the social shaping of technology approach. Furthermore, this essay highlights insightful research trends that blur distinctions between media spaces and complicate definitions of religion. Finally, a discussion of gaps in the scholarship will justify an argument for more theories centered in international contexts, as well as analysis of the relationships between media technologies, aesthetics, affect, identity and religious expression. These emerging approaches provide more in-depth discussions of how the fast-changing and ever-complex digital culture is deeply connected to the evolving nature of religion and human existence.},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/soc4.12769},
	author = {Peterson, Kristin M.}
}
@article {2818,
	title = {Beyond Fashion Tips and Hijab Tutorials:~ The Aesthetic Style of Islamic Lifestyle Videos},
	journal = {Film Criticism},
	year = {2016},
	abstract = {Among young women, lifestyle videos have become extremely popular on YouTube, and a similar trend has emerged among young Muslim women who share modest fashion tips and discuss religious topics. This paper examines the videos of two prominent Muslim women on YouTube, Amena Khan and Dina Torkia, in an effort to understand how they engage with aesthetic styles in order to work against Western stereotypes of Muslim women as oppressed and lacking individuality. Islamic lifestyle videos might appear to simply promote a vacuous focus on appearances, but I argue that it is through the aesthetics and affects of these videos that Amena and Dina do political work to redistribute the sensible and shift what is considered attractive, beautiful and pleasurable in Western society. Additionally, the hybrid aesthetic styles and affects of authenticity and pleasure, which are possible in digital spaces like YouTube, offer Amena and Dina the chance to control their own visual images and to resist being coopted as icons of Western freedom or Islamic piety.},
	url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304337122_Beyond_Fashion_Tips_and_Hijab_Tutorials_The_Aesthetic_Style_of_Islamic_Lifestyle_Videos},
	author = {Peterson, Kristin M.}
}
