World Of Islam In Social Media


Social media has been developed as a new form of media which helped its users to participate by uploading, sharing, tagging and liking the post and content. In other words, it can also be said as a self-media. Internet has changed the nature of communication. Despite other forms of media, there is not any concept such as gatekeeping on social media. Social media has become a hot topic of debate through its role and effectiveness in creating awareness and giving the sense of motivation among its users on various social, political, economic and religious issues. The available content on social media is also creating some new problems among the society because of its unauthentic and unreliable information. Various organizations, individuals, social media activists are using this hot source for spreading anti-Islam sentiments among the netizens.


Study of Islam on internet had developed rapidly with the emergence of communication technologies since 1990.


new or limited with print and electronic media but many scholars have focused on new media and cyberspace and conducted their researches on the construction of Muslims in digital media. Many Scholars have conducted their researches in this field, such as Bunt (2002, 2003, 2009), Richardson and Poole (2006) and Anderson and Eickelman (2003) are the best examples in this context. Hardly few scholarly articles have been done to know that how this online media are being used to spread anti-Islamic discourses among the cyber audience. It becomes necessary for Social media Scholars to evaluate the fact that at what extent the online forms are being used to foster anti- Islamic opinions in modern society. Göran Larsson study suggest that "no studies have focused on the importance of information and communication technologies in spreading Islamophobic opinions" (Larsson, 2007, p. 53). Journalists for the purpose of research- based stories as well as for gathering information and news, use various online sources, by this way internet plays direct and indirect role in how Islam is presented in media and public discourse.


Larsson (2007) has evaluated that the latest technology can be used for spreading and combating islamophobia. With the analysis of Wiki-Islam he has finalized that observed material that published on Wiki-Islam, can easily be perceived as expression of Islamophobia (Larsson, 2007, p. 53). Various activists of new media use these networks for sharing their activities to the online communities. Academicians and activists are gaining their benefits of political affiliation through academic freedom and curricular activism and use their academic freedom for spreading hate and prejudice against Muslims. The political affiliations make them active, they are also capitalized on particular form of islamophobia. Such groups have gained more attraction after 9/11 and also transforming their motivation to public not only through print media but also using internet for their purpose to show their reaction against Islam and Muslims. Like David Horowitz's enterprises in the form of JihadWatch.org, Discover the Networks, Front Page Magazine, as well as Campus Watch, and Islamist Watch are found very active on internet. With their detailed description it is summarized that they have succeed in changing the perception about Islam and Arab people (Salaita, 2008).


Studies about Islam and internet can be found in many dimensions like online Islam, Muslims' activities in cyberspace, construction of Islamic knowledge through internet, discussion on contemporary Islamic issues on internet through Muslim communities, cyber councilors, online interpretative authorities, online fatwas, use of international authorities

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