I haven’t read either of these chapters yet:
Abusharif, Ibrahim N., ‘Islam and Digital Religion’, in Heidi A. Campbell, and Pauline Hope Cheong (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion (2022; online edn, Oxford Academic)
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197549803.013.2
Abstract extract: “Researchers of religion and media have long anticipated the need for increasing multi-disciplinary approaches to unpack the historical and contemporary import of religious content online. After nearly 25 years of Islamic content in digital spaces, it has become progressively more important to address disciplinary matters that more comprehensively connect online content with their intellectual and social legacies and contemporary concerns, that is, to examine religious content unfettered from a strict media-studies-centric point of view.“
Note: I supervised Dr Abusharif’s PhD.
Rahman, Fazlul, ‘Islam, Digital Media, and Identity’, in Heidi A. Campbell, and Pauline Hope Cheong (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion (2022; online edn, Oxford Academic)
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197549803.013.32.
Abstract extract: “This chapter examines the impact of Islamic identity in physical spaces on its representation online. It finds that even though the media plays an essential role in expanding religion, the different logic of each in most cases creates conflicts, particularly in the case of identity. In Indonesian online media, the issue of “the criminalization of ulama” shows a clear token of how the long-established concept of religious identity in Islam faced various challenges and threats in the contemporary media environment.”
