Pub Date : 2023-04-14DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2023.2202572
R. Gibson, Joe Bob Hester
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2023.2174322
Felipe I. Agudelo
ABSTRACT Black Lives Matter as a racial and social justice movement has been the target of different groups on social media. These counter-movements include hashtags like #AllLivesMatter, #WhiteLivesMatter, and #BlueLivesMatter. These groups can use religious discourses to develop a racial counter-narratives to express their interests. The present study used a reflexive thematic analysis method to examine how tweets using either of these hashtags within one month of the death of George Floyd utilized faith-based arguments as part of a counter-narrative to Black Lives Matter. This analysis revealed three themes including (1) the color-blindness of religion as a racial justice counter-narrative, (2) God, virtues, and White privilege (3), and politics, institutions, race, and religion. Although these themes were presented in Twitter through a narrative that uses an apparent harmless language, they were still found to have a racial purpose that criminalizes, oppresses, and creates racial stereotypes.
{"title":"Faith Discourses in the Context of Racial Tension: Black Lives Matter and Its Counter-Narratives","authors":"Felipe I. Agudelo","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2023.2174322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2023.2174322","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Black Lives Matter as a racial and social justice movement has been the target of different groups on social media. These counter-movements include hashtags like #AllLivesMatter, #WhiteLivesMatter, and #BlueLivesMatter. These groups can use religious discourses to develop a racial counter-narratives to express their interests. The present study used a reflexive thematic analysis method to examine how tweets using either of these hashtags within one month of the death of George Floyd utilized faith-based arguments as part of a counter-narrative to Black Lives Matter. This analysis revealed three themes including (1) the color-blindness of religion as a racial justice counter-narrative, (2) God, virtues, and White privilege (3), and politics, institutions, race, and religion. Although these themes were presented in Twitter through a narrative that uses an apparent harmless language, they were still found to have a racial purpose that criminalizes, oppresses, and creates racial stereotypes.","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"41 1","pages":"17 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86422572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2023.2174324
Achmad Sulfikar, P. Kerkhof, Martin Tanis
ABSTRACT This study investigates how Islamic fundamentalists groups in Indonesia use Twitter to communicate with their stakeholders to achieve organizational goals. Based on previous work, three main functions of the use of social media by organizations were examined: spreading information, building and maintaining communities, and mobilizing for action. Based on an analysis of 2000 coded tweets from 20 Islamic fundamentalist accounts in Indonesia, the results showed that using Twitter for spreading information is by far the most frequently used function for Islamic fundamentalist groups in Indonesia, followed by community building and mobilizing for action. Our analysis of the effect of the different uses of Twitter shows that in terms of reach (i.e. retweets), there is an advantage in using Twitter to spread information compared to calling for action in terms of retweeting and – to a lesser extent – to building a community.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2023.2174323
E. Greene-Colozzi, A. Adamczyk, Senahan Kiyal Keles
ABSTRACT Over the last 20 years Muslims have received a disproportionate amount of news media attention. In 2017 they were again thrust into the spotlight when the Trump administration issued a travel ban blocking entry from seven predominately-Muslim countries. With our hand coding of over 900 newspaper articles and mixed modeling techniques, we examine the newspaper rhetoric surrounding Muslims before and during the Trump administration and across US states. We find that after President Trump’s election, fewer newspapers mentioned religion or referenced Muslim claimsmakers. We also reveal that higher state-level religious salience was associated with more newspapers referencing religious claimsmakers in Islam-related discussions. Other state-level political and religious characteristics had no effect on the use of religious elements or Muslims claimsmakers. These results provide insight into the position of Muslims and Islam in the United States, as well as the impact of political rhetoric on media portrayals.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2022.2136872
Tim Luisi
ABSTRACT Media with sexual content is highly prevalent in the current media landscape and demonstrably negatively affects viewers’ mental health. Past research has examined how parental mediation of this type of content can help reduce negative media effects of sexualized media content. This qualitative interview study adds to the understanding of how pastors perceive sexualized media, their experiences with it, and how they recommend their parishioners to engage or not engage with it. The findings are discussed in relation to parental mediation theorizing as well as previous pastor-parishioner communication literature.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2022.2147752
Anwar Ouassini, Nabil Ouassini, M. Amini
ABSTRACT One of the negative developments of the COVID-19 pandemic is the manner by which ethnic, racial, and religious minorities have been negatively impacted by COVID-19. In Great Britain, British Muslims have been adversely affected by this label as they have been disproportionately affected by the virus and stigmatized as super-spreaders by mainstream political parties and right-wing organizations. In response, British Muslims are actively mobilizing in civil society to challenge the super-spreader narrative while emphasizing the centrality of their Islamic faith in protecting their community – and the British public – from COVID-19. In this paper, we elaborate on three frameworks that explicate the British Muslim community’s response to COVID-19 and its accompanying Islamophobic frames: The emphasis on the individual’s responsibility to God, family, and self; the commitment of the British Muslim community to the society and the State; and the reframing of COVID-19 best health practices as Islamic in orientation.
{"title":"The “IslamoCovid” Response: British Muslim Mobilization(s) at the Intersection of COVID-19 and Islamophobia","authors":"Anwar Ouassini, Nabil Ouassini, M. Amini","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2022.2147752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2022.2147752","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT One of the negative developments of the COVID-19 pandemic is the manner by which ethnic, racial, and religious minorities have been negatively impacted by COVID-19. In Great Britain, British Muslims have been adversely affected by this label as they have been disproportionately affected by the virus and stigmatized as super-spreaders by mainstream political parties and right-wing organizations. In response, British Muslims are actively mobilizing in civil society to challenge the super-spreader narrative while emphasizing the centrality of their Islamic faith in protecting their community – and the British public – from COVID-19. In this paper, we elaborate on three frameworks that explicate the British Muslim community’s response to COVID-19 and its accompanying Islamophobic frames: The emphasis on the individual’s responsibility to God, family, and self; the commitment of the British Muslim community to the society and the State; and the reframing of COVID-19 best health practices as Islamic in orientation.","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"1 1","pages":"193 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90776759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2022.2147324
Xiao Han
ABSTRACT While most academics regard virtual religious communities to be secondary to in-person religious communities, the virtual Buddhist sangha served as a full and complete social infrastructure that provides purpose to life and spiritual consolation to its members. From the outbreak of the Covid-19 from March to May in 2020, this paper investigates how a Chinese Buddhist group based in Beijing practices Theravada meditation on the WeChat social media platforms. This paper, based on online ethnography and informal interviews, argues that digital media is a significant arena for Chinese Buddhists to conduct Buddhist rituals, transmit Buddhist ideas, generate and accumulate Buddhist merits, and build alternative cyber-Buddhist economies. This paper also highlights that Buddhist groups are continuously growing and rising as highly united and community-oriented digital sanghas within current China’s technoculture context.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2022.2095802
Kristin M. Peterson
ABSTRACT This article analyzes how the recent marketing campaigns of three Boston church plant communities reflect the straight-forward design style of direct-to-consumer “blands,” like Harry’s razors or Casper mattresses. While this hip and simple approach has brought success to companies looking to stand out in an over-saturated ad market, this article centers on the challenges for churches to evangelize through minimalistic, bland design. These three churches envision a personalized, comforting, less institutional version of Christianity with messages like “Love. Jesus. Simple.” At the same time, this simple and individualistic message obscures the denominational affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention and the promotion of Bible-based teachings, traditional gender roles, and conservative sexual ethics. While the return on investment of these ads is unclear, I propose that these marketing campaigns represent a contemporary “city on a hill” approach, to use the oft-cited phrase from Puritan John Winthrop. In a similar manner to how the 17th Century Puritans broadcast their triumphs through printing, these churches publicize their apparent success in planting Christian communities in secular Boston.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2022.2095808
Michele Martini
ABSTRACT In the last two decades, mainstream religious institutions have progressively incorporated ICTs in both their organizational infrastructure and their devotional practices. Stemming from digital religion scholarship, the present article aims at investigating how the official discourse of the Catholic Church around media has transformed during the long transition from the mass to the digital media era. To this aim, the entire production of papal Encyclicals, Apostolic Exhortations, and World Communication Day addresses from 1967 to 2020 have been analyzed. First, texts were analyzed through a text mining software to identify and quantify the terms under scrutiny. Subsequently, an in-depth study around the evolution of the term “media” was conducted, including the selection and categorization of the term’s correlates and their ethical characterization. Data resulting from this double-layered analysis offer insights on the evolution of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the fast-changing world of media.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2022.2095798
S. Classen
ABSTRACT Scholars have argued that history provides ample evidence of the eager embrace of new communication technologies by Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals in the United States. However, closer examination of the first Christian fundamentalist venture into the technology of radio in the US reveals the ambivalence and anxieties of key leaders as they considered and adopted use of the new medium. This study, based on careful analysis of archival and press materials from the 1920s, reveals a “restless” adoption of radio that articulated the “menace” as well as the promise of the technology. While wondering aloud about radio’s shortcomings and dangers, faith leaders justified their uncertain investment in the new medium by employing discourses of conversion alongside an evangelistic entrepreneurism connected to the growing consumerism of the time.
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