Facebook as Embodiment of Social Relations and Piety among American Muslim Women

Facebook as Embodiment of Social Relations and Piety among American Muslim Women

Facebook as Embodiment of Social Relations and Piety among American Muslim Women
Ashley Hahn Article Based on a three-year-long ethnographic research on a group of young Turkish–American Muslim women, affiliated with a faith-based social movement, I explored why these young women turned to Facebook to maintain their religious sisterhood after their graduation from high school and how their media choice and use of Facebook contribute to their Muslim subject formation. Drawing from literature on ethics and morality and employing a…