Representation of Islam in social media discourse produced by an apostate

Rashid, Radzuwan Ab; Mohamad, Azweed; Musa, Ramli; Rahman, Safawi Abdul; Darus, Saadiyah; Yunus, Kamariah; Shukri, Kamarul

doi:10.1109/icwr.2018.8387229

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“…In the recent years several researchers (e.g. Koteyko and Hunt, 2016;Rashid et al, 2016Rashid et al, , 2018 have employed social media observation as a main data collection method. In the first phase, this study employs direct observation of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp groups about COVID-19 information in Pakistan.…”

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Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19

Hashmi

Almekhlafy

Hashem

et al. 2023

Discourse & Society

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This study attempts to generate new insights into the wide spread online and offline conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19. Twofold analytical lens consisted of narrative interrelations framework and content analysis showed how the linguistic resources and conversational such as popular socio-religious discourses, hypothetical narratives, personal narratives, personal mental archives, and interpolated arguments are integrated in the interpretation of intertextual Bases such as Bill Gates’ TED talk 2015 (26%); Nematullah Wali’s predictions (32%); ‘End of Days’ book by Sylvia Browne (14.9%); and ‘The Eyes of Darkness’ novel by Dean Koontz (22%) by which the conspiracists in Pakistan construct an internally persuasive discourse promoting conspiracy theories on COVID-19. Several linguistic resources such as mood, modality, topicalization, insinuation, and intertextuality emerged as the main tools of making the conspiracy theories internally persuasive.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19

Hashmi

Almekhlafy

Hashem

et al. 2023

Discourse & Society

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“…Bakar et al [2] mentioned, religion significantly affects an individual's negative behaviour. Furthermore, Rashid et al [7] asserted that social media positively and negatively affect religion. As a result, it would be appealing to conduct a study to assess the relationship between user behaviour on social media and religion.…”

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An assessment of muslim user behaviour on Facebook utilizing the UTAUT model

Azma Nasrudin,

Hapiza Mohd Ariffin,

Rahman Jusoh

2024

IJEECS

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<span>Facebook is a popular social networking tool that has changed the behaviour and daily interactions of Muslims. The present investigation employs a quantitative methodology for data collection by disseminating a survey over several social media platforms. The present study employed the purposive sampling strategy to effectively acquire a sample size of 385 individuals residing in the Klang Valley region. This study utilises the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) framework to examine the potential influence of Performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and behaviour intention on the Facebook behaviour of individuals who identify as Muslim. The findings of the study indicate that there is a relationship between performance expectancy (PE) and social influence (SI) and the level of Muslim Facebook engagement. Moreover, a significant correlation exists between age and both PE and effort expectancy (EE). In contrast, age exhibits a negative correlation with both experience and gender. Anticipated outcomes of future research endeavours include the creation of an innovative social media platform specifically tailored for the Muslim community, including the principles of Muslim centred user interface design (MCUID).</span>

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“…Their postings are not simply a sharing of views; they try to use language strategically to make their postings logical. Researchers such as Mohamad et al (2018) and Rashid et al (2018) have pointed out that religiously marginalized people (e.g., former Muslims and nonbelievers) in Malaysia who appear on Facebook and Twitter use social media for several reasons such as entertainment, information dissemination, information seeking, seeking and providing social support, academic purposes, expressing their beliefs and standpoint concerning their renunciation of Islam, and criticizing Islamic teachings and Muslim beliefs. In order to justify their renunciation of the Muslim faith and to express their viewpoint, they construct arguments through their posts on social media.…”

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On the Psychology of Argument: A Structural Analysis of Former Muslims' Postings Within Malaysian Social Media

2021

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This research attempts to provide insights into the argumentation structures in the discussion of Islam on social media involving 14 Malaysian former Muslims. The social media accounts of the participants were observed for 12 months, from January to December 2019. A total of 368 postings put forth arguments related to Islamic authoritative discourse, the Quran and “Sunnah” of the Prophet Muhammad, to justify their renunciation of the Muslim religion. The analysis revealed that the Level 2 argument, which includes the claim, data to support the claim, and the warrant, was identified as the most common argument structure. Level 5, which has more than one rebuttal, was the least common argument structure. The analysis shows that most argument structures were at the lower levels (1–3) in that they offered no strong, clearly identifiable rebuttals. This study concludes that the arguments put forth by former Muslims, in the main, are loosely constructed rather than attempts to build a strong cumulative argumentation to support their reasons for abandoning the Muslim faith.

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Representation of Islam in social media discourse produced by an apostate

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19

Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19

An assessment of muslim user behaviour on Facebook utilizing the UTAUT model

On the Psychology of Argument: A Structural Analysis of Former Muslims' Postings Within Malaysian Social Media

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