Contribution to Book
Digital Religion and Global Media: Flows, Communities, and Radicalizations
Handbook of Global Media Ethics
(2021)
Abstract
This chapter reviews the intersection of digital media and religion. The chapter points to three elements: flows, communities, and radicalizations. Regarding flows, a distinction is made between studying global flows in a way that highlights dominant religious groups and studying them in a way that highlights diversity of religious expression. For communities, a division between organized global religious communities, diasporic religious communities, and grassroots religious communities is suggested. Finally, in terms of studying online religious radicalizations from a global perspective, accounting for the discursive, technological, and sociocultural elements is discussed. Thus, the chapter highlights the importance of religion and digital media in contemporary life and the benefits of interdisciplinarity as an analytical and theoretical perspective.
Keywords
- Digital media,
- Social media,
- Digital religion,
- Media flows,
- Counter-flows,
- Globalization,
- Diversification,
- Online community,
- Diaspora,
- Hate online,
- Extremism
Disciplines
Publication Date
2021
Editor
Stephen J A Ward
Publisher
Springer
ISBN
9783319321035
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-32103-5_10
Citation Information
Ruth Tsuria and Aya Yadlin-Segal. "Digital Religion and Global Media: Flows, Communities, and Radicalizations" Cham, SwitzerlandHandbook of Global Media Ethics (2021) p. 157 - 175 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ruth-tsuria/24/