digital divide

Tracing Digital Divides in Indonesian Islam: Ambivalences of Media and Class

30 Jun 2021

Tracing Digital Divides in Indonesian Islam: Ambivalences of Media and Class
Martin Slama Article The article examines questions of the digital divide from a religious perspective. It asks about the consequences of unequal access to and limitations on uses of social media among Indonesian Muslims with regard to their Islamic practice and sociality. The article concentrates on two phenomena: Islamic preachers and their affective-cum-economic relationship with their followers who are often organized in Islamic study groups; and online Qur’an…

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“The Script Does Not Respond” – Arabic Script’s Difficulties in the Digital Realm. A Visual Approach

15 Dec 2020

“The Script Does Not Respond” – Arabic Script’s Difficulties in the Digital Realm. A Visual Approach
Alina Kokoschka Article This article examines different layers of the problematic visual representation of Arabic as a writing system in the digital realm. It starts with the often false, sometimes severely distorted representations of Arabic script. Although most obvious in daily office work and strolls through Latin-Arabic Linguistic Landscapes, this phenomenon has not yet been systematically looked into. The many unintended and often unnoticed misrepresentations that lead to…

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Contextualizing Internet Studies: Beyond the Online/Offline Divide

10 May 2016

Contextualizing Internet Studies: Beyond the Online/Offline Divide
Jon Nordenson Comment This essay discusses the issue of contextualization in studies of online platform usage and online material. It argues that a separation between online and offline cannot be sustained, as social media users relate to many different online and offline contexts simultaneously. Why protagonists make use of online platforms, which platforms they use, how they make use of them, who they seek to reach, and so…

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New Media and Social-political Change in Iran

10 May 2011

New Media and Social-political Change in Iran
Mohammad Hadi Sohrabi-Haghighat Article The increasing penetration of new communication technologies into everyday life has attracted a growing interest in the social, economic and political implications of these technologies. Most studies have looked at Western democratic societies and the literature on the developing countries is unfortunately small in comparison. In 2009 Iran witnessed a political upheaval in the aftermath of the presidential election in which the Internet was utilized…

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