Victorian Muslims
There’s an exciting new series on Victorian Muslims from Al Jazeera (strangely, difficult to find via Al Jazeera’s main site). Here’s the first episode: More information
‘Islamic State‘ ‘Resurgence‘
This is an important story, probably not the focus of headline writers at present due to other issues (cf White House) but nevertheless should be investigated further: Moustafa Ayad,...
Online Violence Impact
Extreme online violence may be linked to rise of ‘0 to 100’ killers, experts say...
Disinformation and Chatbots
I’m very interested in the disinformation issue in relation to my own research so have added @disinfo.eu’s fact sheet to my Reading List....
AI Middle East (Report)
Alvin R. Cabral, The National, Many Middle East firms struggle to know where to start with AI, 26 Feb 2025 “A report from global consultancy Deloitte has found that...
AI v Conspiracy Theories
This is very interesting and worth a deeper dive: New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s...
AI (in-)Accuracy
BBC Media Centre, Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants, 11 Feb 2025. “New BBC research published today provides a warning...
Religions Digitals Barcelona
I gave a presentation yesterday at the Religions Digitals: Transformacions Technologiques i Espirituals Conference organised by the Oficina d’Afers Religiosos i Investigacions en Sociologia de la Religio in Barcelona,...
Digital British Islam Conference
The Digital British Islam team presented initial findings from the project. We had a thought-provoking and interesting sequence of papers from participants. The selected posts are below (check our...