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Why do people spread fake news? Modelling the factors that influence social media users’ fake news sharing behaviour
Information Development, volume 41, issue 1 (2025), pp. 48-60
"This study modelled the factors that influence fake news spreading behaviour among social media users. To gather our data, we used an online survey to sample 385 social media users in Nigeria, using a chain referral approach. Smart PLS structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data (SEM
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Children's digital experiences in Indian slums: Technologies, identities, and Jugaad
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 175 pp.
"This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children's social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations influence their digital experiences. How do children challenge, ci
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag
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Implications of digital church for Christian leaders
Gogent Arts & Humanities, volume 11, issue 1, 2408868 (2024), 12 pp.
"The use of the internet and digital technology has permeated most facets of life from educational to business organizations both secular and religious. The digital revolution and use of the internet will have a prevailing and lasting impact; therefore, it is prudent for leaders to develop strategie
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The Handbook on Religion and Communication
Deep Insights
Newark: Wiley Blackwell (2023), 571 pp.
"Divided into five parts, the Handbook opens with a state-of-the-art overview of the subject’s intellectual landscape, introducing the historical background, theoretical foundations, and major academic approaches to communication, media, and religion. Subsequent sections focus on institutional and
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Digital Religion: The Basics
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 172 pp.
"Digital Religion: The Basics explores how digital media and internet platforms are transforming religious practice in a digital age and the impact this has had on religious culture in contemporary society. Through exploring six defining characteristics of how religion is acted out online, including
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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
Deep Insights
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.
"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual
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Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal
London: SCM Press (2022), xviii, 180 pp.
"This volume contains a collection of 12 chapters discussing the theme of the book, which focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications that this crisis holds for the church in the future. The main matter being examined in this book is the ecclesiological challenges and opportunities present
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Sacred Cyberspaces: Catholicism, New Media, and the Religious Experience
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2022), xvii, 218 pp.
"Sacred Cyberspaces reveals how long-standing conflicts over power, influence, and legitimacy within religious organizations are being waged in the digital realm. Oren Golan and Michele Martini describe the tensions that arise as religious groups seek to reach the faithful in online spaces where tra
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Sacred Texts and Digital Culture
Postscripts, volume 12, issue 1 (2021), 146 pp.
Religion, Medien und die Corona-Pandemie: Paradoxien einer Krise
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2021), 134 pp.
Religion in the Age of Digitalization: From New Media to Spiritual Machines
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xii, 195 pp.
"Divided into two sections, the chapters included in the first section of the book present case studies from five major religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism and their engagement with digitalization. The second section of the volume explores the moral, ideological but also o
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Online durch die Pandemie: Wie sich Glauben und Leben verändern
Hamburg: Missionshilfe Verlag (2021), 228 pp.
"Mit Covid-19 hat sich eine todbringende Pandemie erstmals global verbreitet, mit weitreichenden Folgen auf allen Ebenen, auch für Mobilität und Kommunikation in Kirche, Mission und weltweiter Ökumene. Partnerschaftsreisen oder Auslandsjahre für junge Freiwillige sind ausgefallen, stattdessen si
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Comunicação, linguagens e religiões: Tendências e perspectivas na pesquisa
Londrina: Syntagma Editores (2020), 446 pp.
Digital creatives and the rethinking of religious authority
London; New York: Routledge (2020), ix, 226 pp.
"The book Digital Creatives and the Rethinking of Religious Authority makes a valuable contribution to the study of how religious authority is evolving in the digital age. The author synthesizes previous research and introduces a new framework for categorizing types of religious authority in digital
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The Bible, Social Media, and Digital Culture
New York: Routledge (2020), 129 pp.
"This book [...] examines the shift from a propositional to a therapeutic approach to faith from a sociological standpoint. The book covers two research projects in particular: the Twitter Gospels and Online Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. It explores the data as it relates to Abby Day's concept of pe
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Digital Media, Young Adults, and Religion: An International Perspective
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xi, 179 pp.
"Utilising results of an unprecedented global study, this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven different countries engage with digital and social media in religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings of the international research project Young Adults and Rel
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There's an App for That: Headspace, Meditation, and the Shifting Religious Landscape of a Digital World
Bard College (2020), 50 pp.
"[This publication] is a senior project in Religious Studies that explores the conditions, both historical and clinical, which led to the popularity of the guided meditation app Headspace, and the cultural attitudes that surround mindfulness meditation in America." (Publisher description)
Contextualizing Current Digital Religion Research on Emerging Technologies
Human Behavior and Ermerging Technologies, volume 2, issue 1 (2019), pp. 5-17
"This article provides an overview of contemporary research within the interdisciplinary arc of scholarship known as digital religion studies, in which scholars explore the intersection between emerging digital technologies, lived and material religious practices in contemporary culture, and the imp
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