2019
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-019-09498-3
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Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda

Abstract: The automation of online social life is an urgent issue for researchers and the public alike. However, one of the most significant uses of such technologies seems to have gone largely unnoticed by the research community: religion. Focusing on Islamic Prayer Apps, which automatically post prayers from its users' accounts, we show that even one such service is already responsible for millions of tweets daily, constituting a significant portion of Arabic-language Twitter traffic. We argue that the fact that a phe… Show more

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“…In social media marketing, chatbots are used to provide highly available customer channels [34]. There are also bots used to spread religious messages [37] and a botnet of over 350k bots randomly quoting the Star Wars novel without any other apparent behaviour [38].…”
Section: Fake News Spreading Landscapementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In social media marketing, chatbots are used to provide highly available customer channels [34]. There are also bots used to spread religious messages [37] and a botnet of over 350k bots randomly quoting the Star Wars novel without any other apparent behaviour [38].…”
Section: Fake News Spreading Landscapementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some even provide information on religious leaders and mentors and places and times of prayer or meditation. With various tags such as Prayer-Bots and chatbots of the gods, these bots are said to be "changing the face of religion" and highlighting the role of technology in spiritual and religious practices [1][2][3].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although research on the ethics and impact of (Chat) GPT on the academic community is quite trendy nowadays [12][13][14], scholarship on its relationship with religious traditions remains scarce. Even though AI and religion are "entangled" through their mutual influences on each other [15], the significant issues mentioned earlier pose the need for a wider research agenda on the intersections of embodied AIs and spiritual and religious practices [1], particularly concerning the feminist project.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%