%0 Book Section %B Media, Religion and Gender Key Issues and New Challenges %D 2013 %T Lwa Like Me: Gender, Sexuality and Vodou Online %A Alexandra Boutros %K Digital Religion %K GENDER %K New Media %K online activities %B Media, Religion and Gender Key Issues and New Challenges %I Routledge %G eng %U http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415504737/ %1 Mia Lövheim %& 7 %0 Journal Article %J Social Compass %D 2016 %T La médialisation du religieux dans la théorie du post néo-protestantisme %A Bratosin, Stefan %K internet %K medialization %K post neo-Protestantism %K postmodernism %K religion %X This article proposes a theory of post neo-Protestantism highlighting the key relationships maintained by this new postmodern manner of thinking and living religion with the medialization, that is to say, with the ‘mediatization of everything’ as a model of public communication developed in favor of broadband internet, wireless internet or social media. In this perspective, it is shown that post neo-Protestantism is basically the virtualization of neo-Protestantism still clinging to modernity and the communicative individual pragmatics of this virtualization now inescapably linked to new media. %B Social Compass %V Vol. 63 %P 1-16 %8 July/2016 %G eng %U http://scp.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/07/19/0037768616652335.full.pdf?ijkey=mTGIzHzyxkVZAYF&keytype=finite %N 3 %9 peer reviewed %& 1 %R 10.1177/0037768616652335 %0 Conference Paper %B 4th Workshop international Essachess: Média, spiritualité et laïcité : Regards croisés franco-roumains %D 2015 %T La foi et le langage : paradigmes de sens pour les médias %A Bratosin, Stefan %K Faith %K freedom of opinion %K language %K media %K mediatization %K religion %K secularization %X Cette communication tâchera de montrer dans la perspective d'une épistémologie sociale que les paradigmes de sens irréductibles pour toute type de médiatisation sont la foi et le langage. Elle produira une argumentation en faveur de l'hypothèse que ce qui est fondamentalement spécifique pour les différents approches médiatiques de la réalité ne réside pas dans la production de sens, mais dans la direction que chaque type de médiatisation se donne pour orienter la vie de l'individu, de la société et d’une manière générale du monde. Enfin, la communication apportera une lecture de la liberté de conscience dans ce contexte où l'être humain - un existant donné - doit s' "in-former" sous la pression de l'être social - un existant historique construit collectivement. %B 4th Workshop international Essachess: Média, spiritualité et laïcité : Regards croisés franco-roumains %I Iarsic %C Bucarest-Villa Noel %8 12/2015 %@ 978-2-9532450-6-6 %G eng %U http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/45600/ssoar-2015-bratosin-La_foi_et_le_langage.pdf?sequence=3 %0 Book Section %B Media Logic(s) Revisited %D 2018 %T The Logics of the Media and the Mediatized Conditions of Social Interaction %A Hjarvard, S %K media %K mediatized %K social interaction %X The notion of ‘media logics’ is useful for understanding the processes of mediatization and the ways in which media come to influence communication and social interaction in various domains of society. Media logics are the combined technological, aesthetic, and institutional modus operandi of the media and logics may in a general sociological vocabulary be understood as the rules and resources that govern a particular institutional domain. Media logics do‚ however‚ rarely exert their influence in isolation. We need to consider the media’s influence on an aggregate level and not only at the level of the individual media and its particular logics. Mediatization involves cultural and social processes in which logics of both media and other institutions are interacting and adapting to each other and through these processes a particular configuration of logics are established within an institutional domain. Such configurations condition, but do not determine communication and social interaction. Within a particular institution such as politics or education‚ the available media repertoire inserts various dynamics to communication and social interaction‚ and these dynamics represent the mediatized conditions of communication and social interaction. %B Media Logic(s) Revisited %I Palgrave Macmillan, Cham %P 63-84 %G eng %U https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65756-1_4 %1 Thimm C., Anastasiadis M., Einspänner-Pflock J %0 Journal Article %J Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet %D 2019 %T “The Light of a Thousand Stories”: %A Hutchings, Tim %X Open access and free to read online: https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/religions/article/view/23952 Understanding a videogame requires attention to the social dimensions of its production, its material form and its reception. Games are produced in communities of designers, played by communities of gamers, and accepted into families, households, and other communal settings. Christian games have often been designed with this wider community context in mind, advertised to families and churches as products that can help attract and retain new audiences. This article focuses on the children’s videogame Guardians of Ancora (GoA), produced by the Christian organization Scripture Union in 2015. We will use an interview with the product developer to explore the intent behind the game, and we will use an interview with a British volunteer at ‘St. George’s Church’ to discover how the game has been used within a Christian community. GoA incorporates a degree of procedural rhetoric (Bogost 2007) into its design, but St. George’s invites children to engage with the game’s story and world in the context of a week of crafts, songs and other volunteer-led activities. Scholars of digital religion have long been fascinated by the relationship between online and offline religion, and the study of the social context of religious gaming offers a new way to approach this classic theme. %B Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet %G eng %U https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335293198_The_Light_of_a_Thousand_Stories_Design_Play_and_Community_in_the_Christian_Videogame_Guardians_of_Ancora %0 Journal Article %J Terrain et Travaux %D 2009 %T L’autre Internet : les moines et le web %A Jonveaux, isabelle %B Terrain et Travaux %V 15 %P 21 %G eng %U http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=TT_015_0029 %& 29 %0 Journal Article %J RESET - Revue en Sciences Sociales sur Internet %D 2020 %T Le jeûne d'Internet. Réduction et abstinence des médias numériques au service de l’expérience spirituelle / Internet fast. Reduction and abstinence from digital media and spiritual experience %A Isabelle Jonveaux %K abstinence %K fast %K internet %K religious practice %X The use of digital media for the religious practice is no longer the exception, but seems to have become a common practice. Parallel to this, we observe more and more forms of total or partial renouncement of use of the Internet during a particular period of reintensification of the religious or spiritual life. Taking the examples of asceticism of religious virtuosi with Catholic monks and nuns, Christian Lent and fasting and hiking weeks that are part of a holistic spirituality approach, this article shows with the help of empiric data how actors consciously reduce their use of the Internet for religious purposes. Some even speak of an Internet fast which would be an indispensable counterpart to the food fast. However, in many cases, disconnection appears to be more difficult than food fasting and is then seen as a new type of virtuosity. Re-examining the classical categories of the sociology of religions that are fasting and asceticism, this article shows how they are redefined today with new objects of application. For the institutional Church, it is also an opportunity to restore plausibility to practices - especially the Lenten fast - which had gradually fallen into disuse. %B RESET - Revue en Sciences Sociales sur Internet %V 9 %G eng %U https://journals.openedition.org/reset/2357 %0 Conference Proceedings %B International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society %D 2011 %T "Let's Meet in Holy Land": The Pilgrimage in Virtual Worlds %A Emil R. Kaburuan %A Chen, Chien-Hsu %A Jeng, Tay-Sheng %K 3D Virtual Environment %K Avatar %K pilgrimage %K Virtual Pilgrim %K virtual worlds %B International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society %I CG Publisher %C Chicago, USA %8 02/2011 %G eng %U http://2011.religioninsociety.com/sessions/index.html %0 Book %D 2001 %T The Language of New Media %A Manovich, Lev %X In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database. Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media. %I MIT Press %C Cambridge, MA %G English %U http://books.google.com/books?id=7m1GhPKuN3cC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false %0 Book %D 2015 %T La Chiesa in Internet. La sfida dei media digitali %A Marchetti, Rita %X Il volume offre un contributo per pensare criticamente il ruolo della rete e dei media digitali nella vita quotidiana in rapporto alle istituzioni tradizionali, in particolare alla Chiesa cattolica in Italia. I rapporti della Chiesa con i processi di modernizzazione sono stati spesso controversi e caratterizzati da un’alternanza di intuizioni e chiusure, di accettazione e cautela, tanto da rendere legittima, inizialmente, l’ipotesi di un atteggiamento di resistenza nei confronti dei mutamenti creati dalla diffusione di internet. Al contrario, il mondo ecclesiale in rete si è dimostrato una realtà estremamente e inaspettatamente ricca, con migliaia di utenti anche tra le persone e i parroci più anziani, come mostra l’importante mole di dati e informazioni raccolte sul campo di cui il volume rende conto. %I Carocci %G eng %U https://www.weca.it/libro-del-mese/la-chiesa-internet-la-sfida-dei-media-digitali/ %0 Journal Article %J Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life %D 2015 %T Let’s Talk about Sex: Australian Muslim Online Discussions %A Roxanne D. Marcotte %B Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life %V 9 %P 65-84 %G eng %N 1 %0 Book %D 1998 %T Life Online. Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space %A Markham, A. %X Alienating for some, yet most intimate and real for others, emerging communications technologies are creating a varied array of cyberspace experiences. Nowhere are the new and old more intertwined, as familiar narratives of the past and radical visions of the future inform our attempts to assess the impact of cyberspace on self and society. Amidst the dizzying pace of technological innovation, Annette N. Markham embarks on a unique, ethnographic approach to understanding internet users by immersing herself in on-line reality. The result is an engrossing narrative as well as a theoretically engaging journey. A cast of characters, the reflexive author among them, emerge from Markham's interviews and research to depict the complexity and diversity of internet realities. While cyberspace is hyped as a disembodied cultural arena where physical reality can be transcended, Markham finds that to understand how people experience the internet, she must learn how to be embodied there ”a process of acculturation and immersion which is not so different from other anthropological projects of cross-cultural understanding. Both new and not-so-new, cyberspace provides a context in which we can ask new sorts of questions about all cultural experience. %I AltaMira %C Walnut Creek, CA %G English %0 Book %D 2008 %T Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life %A McGuire, Meredith B %K Embodied Practices for Healing and Wholeness %K Gendered Spiritualities %K Popular Religions in Practice %K Popular Religious Expressions %K Religious Commitment %K Religious Hybridity %K religious identity %K religious lives %K Sociology of religion %K Spirituality and Materiality %X How can we grasp the complex religious lives of individuals such as Peter, an ordained Protestant minister who has little attachment to any church but centers his highly committed religious practice on peace-and-justice activism? Or Hannah, a devout Jew whose rich spiritual life revolves around her women's spirituality group and the daily practice of meditative dance? Or Laura, who identifies as Catholic but rarely attends Mass, and engages daily in Buddhist-style meditation at her home altar arranged with symbols of Mexican American popular religion? Diverse religious practices such as these have long baffled scholars, whose research often starts with the assumption that individuals commit, or refuse to commit, to an entire institutionally framed package of beliefs and practices. Meredith McGuire points the way forward toward a new way of understanding religion. She argues that scholars must study religion not as it is defined by religious organizations, but as it is actually lived in people's everyday lives. Drawing on her own extensive fieldwork, as well as recent work by others, McGuire explores the many, seemingly mundane, ways that individuals practice their religions and develop their spiritual lives. By examining the many eclectic and creative practices -- of body, mind, emotion, and spirit -- that have been invisible to researchers, she offers a fuller and more nuanced understanding of contemporary religion. %I Oxford University Press %G eng %U http://global.oup.com/academic/product/lived-religion-9780195368338?cc=us&lang=en& %0 Journal Article %J Television & New Media %D 2015 %T Locating the “Internet Hindu”: Political Speech and Performance in Indian Cyberspace %A Mohan, S %K digital politics %K Hindu nationalism %K Hindutva %K Internet Hindu %K political speech %K social media %X The article seeks to offer an understanding of the politics and presence of this increasingly visible, informal online political formation in India, whose members are referred to as the Internet Hindus. Used to describe young, often urban, middle-class/upper-middle-class followers of Hinduism residing in India (and abroad), the term has come to be associated almost entirely with those who aggressively voice their right-wing political views and support for Narendra Modi on social media platforms. The article explores the politics espoused by some of these “Internet Hindus” and frames them vis-à-vis the larger themes foregrounded by the electoral victory of the Hindu nationalist political outfit, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In doing so, the article attempts to locate “Internet Hindus” in a democracy, which has the third largest Internet user base in the world, and seeks to deconstruct their ethno-nationalistic online posturing, while reflecting on what this may mean for the online collective itself. %B Television & New Media %V 16 %P 339-345 %G eng %U http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1527476415575491 %N 4 %0 Journal Article %J INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE %D 2008 %T The Language of Islamophobia in Internet Articles %A Haja Mohideen %A Shamimah Mohideen %K internet %K Islamophobia %K language %K Muslims %K political Islam %K religion %X Islamophobia, the hatred for and fear of Islam and Muslims, manifests itself in physical, political, cultural, linguistic and other forms. From the linguistic perspective, many words have been coined to perpetuate prejudices against Muslims and their religion. Expressions are freely used to associate Islam, which means “peace” in Arabic, with concepts and actions which the religion and practising Muslims do not approve of, much less condone. Expressions such as Islamic terrorism, Islamic fanaticism, Muslim extremists, Islamist and political Islam have been used pejoratively. To strike fear and misgivings in the minds of many Europeans, the British capital has even been mischievously called “Londonistan” by anti-Muslim elements. Known Islamophobic items taken from Internet articles need to be analysed to respond objectively to linguistic Islamophobia %B INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE %V 16 %G eng %U http://www.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam/article/view/31 %N 1 %& 73 %0 Journal Article %J La Trama de la Comunicación %D 2014 %T La reconstrucción de lo “religioso” en la circulación en redes socio-digitales %A Moisés Sbardelotto %K Catholic Church %K Catholicism %K circulation %K connectial dispositifs %K mediatization %K mediatization of religion %K reconnections %K socio-digital networks %X En este artículo, se presenta una reflexión sobre la mediatización digital de la religión, fenómeno socio-comunicacional en que se sitúa la actual reconstrucción de lo religioso. En sitios católicos brasileños, se analiza el desvío de la práctica de la fe al ambiente online a partir de lógicas mediáticas, los llamados rituales online, que complejizan el fenómeno religioso y las procesualidades comunicacionales. Se describen tres modalidades de oferta y apropiación de lo sagrado: la inter faz interaccional, las interacciones discursivas y las interacciones rituales. A partir de esas nuevas modalidades de percepción y de expresión de lo sagrado, se analizan las prácticas de instituciones sociales como la Iglesia y la sociedad en general al hablar públicamente sobre lo religioso en las redes digitales – en este caso, lo “católico”, es decir, constructos simbólicos que la sociedad considera como vinculados a la doctrina y tradición de la Iglesia Católica-. Se analizan, entonces, los conceptos de reconexión y dispositivos conexiales. Como conclusión, se afirma que, en esa reconstrucción de lo “católico”, surge una religiosidad en experimentación marcada por e-rejías, o sea, nuevos sentidos simbólicos de lo religioso en red, “bricolajes de la fe” en el ambiente digital. This article presents a reflection on the digital mediatization of religion, socio-communicational phenomenon in which stands the current reconstruction of the religious. In Brazilian Catholic sites, it analyzes the displacement of the practice of the faith to the online environment based on mediatic logics, the so-called rituals online, that turn the religious phenomena and the communication processualities more complex. It describes three forms of of fer and appropriation of the sacred: the interactional inter face, the discursive interactions and the ritual interactions. From these new modes of perception and expression of the sacred, it analyses practices of social institutions as the Church and society in general to speak publicly about religion in digital networks – in this case, the “Catholic”, ie symbolic constructs that society considers as linked to the doctrine and tradition of the Catholic Church. It then discusses the concepts of reconnection and connectial devices. In conclusion, it is stated that in the reconstruction of the “Catholic” arises a religiosity in experimentation marked by e-resies, ie new symbolic meanings of the networked religious, “bricolages of faith” in the digital environment. %B La Trama de la Comunicación %V 18 %G eng %U http://www.latrama.fcpolit.unr.edu.ar/index.php/trama/article/view/472 %& 151 %0 Journal Article %J Die Welt des Islams %D 2008 %T Listening Communities? Some Remarks on the Construction of Religious Authority in Islamic Podcasts %A Scholz, J. %A Selge, T. %A Stille, M. %A Zimmerman, J. %K community %K Islam %K Podcast %X n the context of the vivid activity of Muslim individuals and groups on the Internet and the recent technological developments in the field of computer mediated communication, podcasts offering a wide range of religious information and/or advice to Muslim (and non-Muslim) listeners play an increasingly important role. Being an integral part of the Web 2.0's online landscape and presenting, at the same time, many characteristics of more “traditional” audio media such as cassette recordings, podcasts cannot only be located at the intersection between virtual space and “real world”, but represent, as a medium, also a direct continuation of older forms of Muslim media usage for da'wa-purposes and propagandistic aims. This article attempts to analyze in how far the use of podcasts (and to a smaller extent of videocasts) by Muslim groups and individuals contributes to the emergence of a Muslim online “counter public” sometimes challenging, sometimes reinforcing existing authority structures. Special attention is paid to the question which means and features specific to this new medium Muslim podcasters use to legitimize their religious authority, and to the question in how far established symbol systems commonly relied upon in the Muslim community are used as instruments for the construction of religious online authority and the redistribution of Definitionsmacht. Furthermore, it discusses to what extent questions of “right belief” and “correct religious practice” play a role in these processes. For this purpose, style and content of four selected podcasts (Zaytuna Institute Knowledge Resource Podcast, MeccaOne Media Podcast, Ahmadiyya Podcast, Alt.muslim Review) are analyzed in order to illustrate different ways in which this new medium is used by Muslim groups today. It is shown that podcasts—as part of the overall media spectrum—are used by Muslim groups for internal and external da'wa-purposes, as well as for the reinforcement of existing power and authority structures (e.g. by projecting the presence of the group's leader both into time and into space) and as a means to cope with institutional and communal crisis. They might also become an important instrument not for the (re-)construction, but for the deconstruction of religious authority. %B Die Welt des Islams %V 48 %P 457-509 %G English %U http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/dwi/2008/00000048/F0020003/art00007?token=00561dd544be1455875dd67232d45232b4624736a4d3b2046287a743568293c6c567e504f58762f460c793 %N 3/4 %0 Journal Article %J Sikh Formations %D 2018 %T Lost in translation? The emergence of the digital Guru Granth Sahib %A Singh, Jasjit %X This article explores the impact of the digital online environment on the religious lives of Sikhs with a particular focus on the emergence of the ‘Digital Guru’, i.e. digital versions of the Guru Granth Sahib. Using data gathered through interviews and an online survey, I examine how the ‘Digital Guru’ is impacting on the transmission of the Sikh tradition and on Sikh religious authority. I then explore some of the issues faced in engaging with the ‘Digital Guru’ and the consequences of the emergence of online translations. Given that ‘going online’ has become an everyday practice for many, this article contributes to understandings of the impact of the online environment on the religious adherents in general, and on Sikhs in particular. %B Sikh Formations %G eng %U https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17448727.2018.1485355?journalCode=rsfo20 %0 Book %D 1995 %T Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet %A Turkle, S. %X 'Life on the Screen' is a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples' perceptions of themselves, and the individual's relationship to machines. Sherry Turkle, a Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a licensed psychologist, uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, 'bots,' virtual reality, and 'the on-line way of life.' Turkle's discussion of postmodernism is particularly enlightening. She shows how postmodern concepts in art, architecture, and ethics are related to concrete topics much closer to home, for example AI research (Minsky's 'Society of Mind') and even MUDs (exemplified by students with X-window terminals who are doing homework in one window and simultaneously playing out several different roles in the same MUD in other windows). Those of you who have (like me) been turned off by the shallow, pretentious, meaningless paintings and sculptures that litter our museums of modern art may have a different perspective after hearing what Turkle has to say %I Touchstone %C New York %G English %U http://books.google.com/books?id=auXlqr6b2ZUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false %0 Book Section %B The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: the Case of National Web domains %D 2019 %T Lessons from cross-border religion in the Northern Irish web sphere: understanding the limitations of the ccTLD as a proxy for the national web %A Webster, Peter %B The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: the Case of National Web domains %I Routledge %P 110-23 %G eng %1 Niels Brügger & Ditte Laursen