Searching Issues
Articles associated with the Google Trends‘ Survey 2023 AP/Arab News, What did you Google in 2023? ‘Barbie,’ Israel-Hamas war are among the year’s top Internet searches, 11 Dec 2023...
Book Announcement: Islamic Algorithms
Here’s the first announcement of my new book Islamic Algorithms: Online Influence in the Muslim Metaverse (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2024). It’s out 2nd May 2024. Various editions are planned,...
“European Digital Muslim Responses to the Israel-Hamas Crisis”
Gary R. Bunt, Anna Grasso, Avi Astor, Rosa Martinez Cuadros, Mateusz Chudziak, Arvydas Kumpis. Digital Islam Across Europe, “European Digital Muslim Responses to the Israel-Hamas Crisis” Members of the...
“How people in South and Southeast Asia view religious diversity and pluralism”
Pew Research Center, How people in South and Southeast Asia view religious diversity and pluralism, 20 Nov 2023 “[Yet] a 2022 Pew Research Center survey finds that, on balance, adults in...
Research Issues
New and noted: Aaron Zelin, (2023). “Highly nuanced policy is very difficult to apply at scale”: Examining researcher account and content takedowns online. Policy & Internet, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.374 Abstract follows: “Since 2019, researchers examining,...
Indonesian Cyberspace and Radicalisation
New and noted: A’an Suryana, Indonesia’s Moderate Muslim Websites and Their Fight Against Online Islamic Extremism, ISEAS “Moderate online media institutions have not been effective in counteracting the online...
Dealing with graphic online content
This is a repost from 2018, published by Bellingcat. These issues discussed below can also apply to academic researchers working in aspects of online content. This can include students....
Digital British Islam Archive
The first phase of the Digital British Islam archive is now live. I also wrote an article on the National Movements collection. This is a work in progress, which...
Arabic AI
Aimee Look, CNN, Arabic AI could help open doors for other languages, 4 Oct 2023. “ Although ChatGPT, Meta’s LLaMA and other LLMs have Arabic-language capabilities, they were mostly...