عنوان

Emotion, Sensory Experience, and Islamic Discourse on the Internet: Theorizing the Affective Islamic Public

Number

TL49701

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Emotion, Sensory Experience, and Islamic Discourse on the Internet: Theorizing the Affective Islamic Public

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Benjamin Ale-Ebrahim

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Brinton, Jacquelene

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Kansas

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

84

Text of Note

Committee members: Halegoua, Germaine; Stainton, Hamsa

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-34666-4

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Religious Studies

Body granting the degree

University of Kansas

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

Digital media platforms have become important spaces for Muslims to discuss and debate Islam and Islamic values in the contemporary world. In this study, I analyze the affective nature of digital Islamic discourse, focusing primarily on how the internet allows for the formation of transnational Muslim collectives based upon shared sensory experience. In doing so, I coin a new term that I use to refer to such digital spaces - the affective Islamic public. I discuss three case studies that I use to define the affective Islamic public: a social media controversy surrounding an American Muslim journalist, an online argument between a preacher in Tajikistan and a member of ISIS, and a Snapchat Live Story depicting the events of a Muslim religious holiday. To conclude, I suggest some best practices that other researchers interested in affect and digital religious discourse can use to conduct further studies in this field.

Religion; Islamic Studies; Web Studies

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Communication and the arts;Social sciences;Affect;Internet;Islam;Publics

Alhdad, Aiman A.

Brinton, Jacquelene

Subdivision

Religious Studies

University of Kansas

Call Number

1986283115; 10281652

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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