“Elon Musk, Grooming Gangs and British Muslims”
From my colleague Dr Sadek Hamid: One of two new Digital British Islam articles – this one by Dr Sadek Hamid: digitalbritishislam.com/elon-musk-gr…...
DeepSeek
DeepSeek has dominated the digital week: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article… DeepSeek under understandable scrutiny. [image or embed] — Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social) 29 January 2025 at 13:05 "What we have is a...
“God’s Influencers” Journal Special Edition
New(-ish) and noted, with many interesting articles for those working on digital religion: Volume 13 (2024): Issue 2 (Oct 2024): Special Thematic Articles: God’s Influencers: How Social Media Users...
‘AI Jesus‘
Also relevant, of course, in Islamic contexts: AI Jesus has been a viral sensation this past month. But don't let the playful nature of "AI kiss" apps obscure the...
Sweden Shooting – Update and Context
Man who burned Quran 'shot dead in Sweden' www.bbc.com/news/article… [image or embed] — Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social) 30 January 2025 at 11:12 Context/further Reading: In light of events in...
Menjadi Muslim Metaverse
I was intrigued to see this information regarding a book discussion focused on ‘Islamic Algorithms‘, and I rather wish I could have been a fly on the wall …
Southport Attack
In this case, there are references to the Prevent agenda, alongside the downloading by the perpetrator of al-Qaeda online manuals. See earlier coverage under the Southport Tragedy tag. How...
Data VisuaIisation
This is something we have been working on for both Digital British Islam and Digital Islam Across Europe projects. My colleague @annagrasso.bsky.social will discuss our work on web archiving/data...
Amir Tataloo
Iranian court sentences pop star Tataloo to death for blasphemy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j…...