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"Die Umbrüche in Ägypten 2011 haben gezeigt, dass Medien eine wesentliche Rolle für die Mobilisierung politischer Partizipation spielen. Die Muslimbruderschaft, einer der wichtigsten gesellschaftlichen Akteure Ägyptens, hat seit 2002 gezielt auf Internetmedien gesetzt, um das Regime Mubaraks her ... more
"The article addresses the use of the internet by Islamic social movement organizations (SMOs), focusing on the case of Justice and Charity (JC), the biggest opposition political group in Morocco. It examines the extent to which the SMO exploits the potential of the medium in collective action, and ... more
"About 200 million people in Muslim-majority countries used the Internet in 2010, forming oneninth of the world’s population of netizens. Literature on the Muslim Internet tends to focus disproportionately on radical fundamentalism, overlooking the large numbers of ordinary Muslims for whom the In ... more

Theorizing the Muslim Blogosphere: Blogs, Rationality, Publicness, and Individuality

In: International Blogging: Identity, Politics, and Networked Publics
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), pp. 29-46

iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam

London: Hurst (2009), 358 pp.
"The internet has profoundly shaped how Muslims perceive Islam, and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting within the twenty-first century. While these electronic interfaces appear new and innovative in terms of how the media is applied, much of their content has a basis in cla ... more
"Der Mainstream-Islam, der sich heute im arabischen Fernsehen und Internet präsentiert, hat [...] eine besondere Charakteristik: er hat eine moralische Botschaft, ist aber nicht vordergründig politisch und wird damit geduldet von den autoritären Regimes, die in populär-religiösen Formaten zumei ... more

The Islamic Internet: Authority, Authenticity and Reform

In: Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow
Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2007), pp. 237-250
"The internet in the Arab World: Egypt and beyond is the first book to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the status of the internet and its uses and effects in Egypt and the Arab world. Tackling the issue in a systematic, scientific manner, this book also examines Islamic online communic ... more
"Providing one of the first ethnographies of the Internet revolution in the Arab world, The Internet in the Middle East analyzes the ways in which the Internet affects public discourse and social practice in Islamic society. With a special focus on Kuwait, Deborah L. Wheeler offers an intimate journ ... more
"Religion im Internet ist ein bisher kaum untersuchtes Phänomen. Dies gilt ohne Zweifel auch für den Bereich des Islams im Internet. In Einzelstudien und einem umfangreichen Katalog wird versucht, erste Ansätze zu formulieren, Theorien zum Verständnis dieses Phänomens zu entwickeln. Themen sind ... more