Navigating Religion Online: Jewish and Muslim Responses to Social Media

dc.citation.articleNumber258en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleReligionsen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber12en_US
dc.contributor.authorFerguson, Jauharaen_US
dc.contributor.authorEcklund, Elaine Howarden_US
dc.contributor.authorRothschild, Connoren_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-07T20:22:44Zen_US
dc.date.available2021-06-07T20:22:44Zen_US
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractAlthough social media use among religious communities is proliferating, significant gaps remain in our understanding of how religious minorities perceive social media in relation to their faith and community. Thus, we ask how individuals use religion to frame moral attitudes around social media for Jews and Muslims. Specifically, how does social media shape understandings of community? We analyze 52 interviews with Jews and Muslims sampled from Houston and Chicago. We find that Jews and Muslims view social media as a “double-edged sword”—providing opportunities to expand intracommunal ties and access to religious resources, while also diluting the quality of ties and increasing exposure to religious distractions. These findings help us understand what it is about being a religious minority in the US that might shape how individuals engage with social media. Moreover, they suggest that social media may be transforming faith communities in less embodied ways, a topic that is of particular relevance in our pandemic times.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFerguson, Jauhara, Ecklund, Elaine Howard and Rothschild, Connor. "Navigating Religion Online: Jewish and Muslim Responses to Social Media." <i>Religions,</i> 12, no. 4 (2021) MDPI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12040258.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalreligions-12-00258en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/rel12040258en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/110694en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rightsThis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citeden_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.titleNavigating Religion Online: Jewish and Muslim Responses to Social Mediaen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
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