Special Issue

I. International Media, Digital Culture and Religion Congress Special Issue
November 28, 2024


International Media, Digital Culture and Religion Congress (MDCRC) is an academic event planned to be held annually under the leadership of the Medya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi - Journal of Media and Religion Studies.


This special issue of the journal brings together original manuscripts selected from among the papers presented at the I. International Media, Digital Culture and Religion Congress, which took place online on April 26–28, 2024, under the coordination of Erciyes University and with the support of the Republic of Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Radio and Television Supreme Council. By focusing on the nexus between media, digital culture, and religion, the congress endeavors to advance domestic academic inquiry onto the international stage, thereby broadening the reach and significance of the resulting scholarship.


Congress Link: https://congress.mediadjournal.org/2024/?l=en

Special Issue Link: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/mediad/issue/84654


Scope

The articles included in this special issue reflect the congress’s interdisciplinary approach to the theme of “media, digital culture, and religion.” They comprise current and original research on the impact of digital culture within the media–religion nexus, online religious experiences, Islamophobia and hate speech, as well as the implications of artificial intelligence and new media technologies for the field of religion.


• Examining the Antecedents of the Persuasiveness of Social Media Posts by Celebrity Muslim Preachers in Malaysia
Tengku Siti Aisha Tengku Mohd Azzman Shariffadeen, Aini Maznina A Manaf

• Religious Commodification in Social Experiments on Zavilda TV's YouTube Channel
Nurfudiniyah Nurfudiniyah, Lukman Hakim, Jangki Dausat Fonny

• Artificial Intelligence on Journalism: Algorithmic Power Targeting the Crack in Memory in the Example of ‘Religious Wave’ Terrorist Attacks
Fikriye Çelik

• Religious Communication in Digital Culture: A Study on Islamic Memes on Reddit
İsmail Kaplan

• Religious Hate Speech against Islam in Bollywood Cinema in the Context of Self-Orientalism: The Example of “The Kerala Story”
Sefer Kalaman

• Hate Speech on Social Media in the Axis of Islamophobia: Example of TikTok
Mustafa Böyük

• Self-Orientalist Islamophobic Discourse: “Vikipedi Türkiye” Case
Orhan Duman, Mehmet Sinan Tam

• Islamophobia Agenda in Islamist Magazines in Türkiye: A Content Analysis
Mücahit Sami Küçüktığlı

• Islamophobia in Japan: Possibilities and Controversies
Yetkin Karaoğlu, Hatice Acar

• Islamic Forms of New Age Belief in Syncretic Hyperreality
Nil Gürel, Mustafa Sami Mencet

• The Effects of Digital Culture and New Media on Religious Identity in The Postmodern Age: The Case of Türkiye
Tuba Işık

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