Making Space in Social Media: #MuslimWomensDay in Twitter

Pennington, Rosemary

doi:10.1177/0196859918768797

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“…The accessibility and affordability of platforms like Twitter, indeed, may help to amplify voices belonging to Muslims and other marginalized groups. Some Muslim women, for example created the hashtag #MuslimWomenDay to share their personal experiences and fight Islamophobic prejudices on Twitter (Pennington 2018). When Dutch politician Geert Wilders created and circulated an anti-Islam video, some Muslims employed the Internet-and YouTube in particular-to respond to its Islamophobic allegations (Farida et al 2011;Van Zoonen et al 2011).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hate in a Tweet: Exploring Internet-Based Islamophobic Discourses

Evolvi

2018

Religions

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Islamophobia is the unfounded hostility against Muslims. While anti-Muslim feelings have been explored from many perspectives and in different settings, Internet-based Islamophobia remains under-researched. What are the characteristics of online Islamophobia? What are the differences (if any) between online and offline anti-Muslim narratives? This article seeks to answer these questions through a qualitative analysis of tweets written in the aftermath of the 2016 British referendum on European Union membership (also known as “Brexit”), which was followed by a surge of Islamophobic episodes. The analysis of the tweets suggests that online Islamophobia largely enhances offline anti-Islam discourses, involving narratives that frame Muslims as violent, backward, and unable to adapt to Western values. Islamophobic tweets also have some peculiar characteristics: they foster global networks, contain messages written by so-called “trolls” and “bots,” and contribute to the spreading of “fake news.” The article suggests that, in order to counteract online Islamophobia, it is important to take into account the networked connections among social media, news media platforms, and offline spaces.

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Hate in a Tweet: Exploring Internet-Based Islamophobic Discourses

Evolvi

2018

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“…Similarly, contemporary studies of digital media and religion focus on spaces that provide easy access to data on how people make meaning online. Research projects analyze mobile applications, like the Bible app (Hutchings, 2015) or meditation apps (Grieve, 2017), or they look at social media spaces, such as Facebook groups (Abdel-Fadil, 2019), Twitter hashtags like #MuslimWomensDay (Pennington, 2018) or YouTube videos (Peterson, 2016). While all of these research projects offer insightful analysis of these interconnections between media and religion, certain forms of religious expression and media spaces remain under-analyzed 4 | EMERGING TRENDS, SHIFTING BOUNDARIES Before discussing the gaps in the research, I want to highlight a few emerging trends that offer insightful approaches to studying religion in the digital moment.…”

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Pushing boundaries and blurring categories in digital media and religion research

Peterson

2020

Sociology Compass

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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.

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“…In addition, however, audiences also engage by “decid[ing] how to interpret the social phenomenon and whether or not to adopt the media representation” (Fung & Scheufele, 2014, p. 132), which is especially apparent in hashtag activism. For example, Pennington (2018) considers how #MuslimWomensDay has enabled Muslim women to tell their own stories and, in so doing, to “push back” against dominant media frames depicting them as silent victims (p. 200), and Jackson and Banaszczyk (2016) explore how #YesAllWomen and #YesAllWhiteWomen enabled “feminist counterpublics” to “rewrite dominant public narratives about violence against women” (p. 392).…”

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#MeToo Goes Global: Media Framing of Silence Breakers in Four National Settings

Starkey

Koerber

Sternadori

et al. 2019

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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This article reports the results of a qualitative media framing analysis of news coverage about #MeToo in four national contexts: the United States, Japan, Australia, and India. Comparing media coverage of a woman who became associated with #MeToo in each country reveals four media frames: brave silence breaker, stoic victim of an unjust system, recovered or reluctant hero, and hysterical slut. By identifying these frames, and their cultural variations, we add to understanding of #MeToo as an international social movement that has crossed national and cultural barriers.

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Making Space in Social Media: #MuslimWomensDay in Twitter

Cited by 17 publications

References 26 publications

Hate in a Tweet: Exploring Internet-Based Islamophobic Discourses

Hate in a Tweet: Exploring Internet-Based Islamophobic Discourses

Pushing boundaries and blurring categories in digital media and religion research

#MeToo Goes Global: Media Framing of Silence Breakers in Four National Settings

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