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Le Sénégal à l’heure des médias numériques confessionnels: Le Hizbut-Tarqiyyah et son site Internet, comme reflets de nouveaux lieux de culte virtuels
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 37-52
"L’évolution des autoroutes de l’information a permis la naissance des médias numériques. Ainsi, Internet et les autres plateformes digitales se sont montrés comme les nouveaux rois de la communication. Dès lors, ils ont modifié les relations sociales et les institutions comme la religion.
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Journalism and the Islamic Worldview: Journalistic Roles in Muslim-Majority Countries
Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 555-575
"This paper looks at the extent to which journalistic culture in Muslim-majority countries is shaped by a distinctive Islamic worldview. We identified four principles of an Islamic perspective to journalism: truth and truth-telling (siddiq and haqq), pedagogy (tabligh), seeking the best for the publ
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Pratiques religieuses africaines et médias numériques: Prolonger la réflexion
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 135-144
"Cette série de six articles, tous focalisés sur l’Afrique francophone, traite chacun à leur manière du thème principal de l’usage de l’Internet par des groupes religieux sur le continent africain. Cinq de ces contributions explorent l’usage religieux des médias numériques en Afrique
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Media Representation of Muslims and Islam from 2000 to 2015: A Meta-Analysis
International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 3 (2017), pp. 219-244
"This article reports a meta-analysis of 345 published studies to examine the media’s role in construction of a Muslim and Islamic identity. A quantitative analysis highlights the geographical focus, methods, theories, authorship, media types, and time frames of published studies. A qualitative an
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Jihadists Make Telegram Messaging App a Recruiting Tool: The 'Islamic State' Glorifies Terrorism and Turns to German Teenagers
Mainz: jugendschutz.net (2016), 4 pp.
"An app called Telegram is the new hot thing for jihadists to disseminate their propaganda. Terror organizations like the 'Islamic State' (IS) also use this app to win over German us-ers. jugendschutz.net documented a vast amount of graphic content like beheading videos – anyone can use his smartp
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Representations of Islam in the News: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Lanham, Maryland et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xiv, 281 pp.
"The representation of Islam is unquestionably a critical test for comparing journalistic reporting across countries and cultures. The Islamic religion has weight in international reporting (defining what we termed "foreign Islam"), but it is also the religion of numerically important minority group
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Perils of Perception 2016: A 40-Country Study
Ipsos (2016), 30 slides
"These are the latest findings from the Ipsos Perils of Perception survey. The results highlight how wrong people across 40 countries are about some key issues and features of the population in their country. Perceptions are not reality… Nearly all countries overestimate their Muslim population, a
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A Divine Cosmopolitism? Religion, Media and Imagination in a Socially Divided Cairo
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 48-63
"With a focus on young Egyptian women, this article explores the different ways it becomes possible to reconcile a Muslim identity with a cosmopolitan openness towards the world. Informed primarily by transnational television, these women articulate a divine cosmopolitan imagination through which th
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"This thesis is a theoretically framed and historically informed sociological analysis of how digital technology usage shapes religious identity in Pakistan. The development literature is dominated by assumptions of technologically driven progress towards secularisation and studies of technology pro
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Political Islam and Global Media: The Boundaries of Religious Identity
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 288 pp.
"The development of new and social networking sites, as well as the growth of transnational Arab television, has triggered a debate about the rise in transnational political and religious identification, as individuals and groups negotiate this new triad of media, religion and culture. This book exa
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Inside De Caliphate's Classroom: Textbooks, Guidance Literature, and Indoctrination Methods of the Islamic State
Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2016), xii, 76 pp.
"The study is divided into three parts, the first of which describes the Islamic State’s publishing house, Maktabat al-Himma, and its activities and offers a rough chronology of when the group published various works. The second part examines the group’s classroom textbooks, drawing comparisons
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L'impact du jihad virtuel
Paris: L'Harmattan (2016), 184 pp.
Religious TV
In: Media Industries in the Middle East 2016
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Doha Film Institute (2016), pp. 162-169
"Religious channels in the MENA region are approximately 10 percent of all free-to-air (FTA) channels from 2012 to 2014. This is a relatively high share compared to many markets outside the region, such as the U.K., where religious channels only represent one percent of FTA channels. Religious chann
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Ramadan TV
In: Media Industries in the Middle East 2016
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Doha Film Institute (2016), pp. 152-161
"Television executives and producers are busy for 11 months of the year, preparing for the do-or-die one-month television season: Ramadan. This ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar is at once a period of religious devotion and a time for the television industry’s best productions. It is a tim
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Religion and Global Media: Impact of Arabic TV Channels on Lowland Eritrean Youth
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 9, issue 2 (2016), pp. 221-236
"Satellite TV channels from the Middle East started beaming into Eritrea from 1996, and the Eritrean youth are avid consumers of the global messages from across the borders. Following an in-depth interview method as a research technique, using an unstructured, openended questionnaire, the present st
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Preaching Islamic Renewal: Religious Authority and Media in Contemporary Egypt
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2016), xi, 261 pp.
"Preaching Islamic Renewal examines the life and work of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha‘rawi, one of Egypt's most beloved and successful Islamic preachers. His wildly popular TV program aired every Friday for years until his death in 1998. At the height of his career, it was estimated that up to 30 million
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Egypt's Blasphemy Laws
Washington, DC: Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (2016), 5 pp.
