Open this publication in new window or tab >>2022 (English)In: Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in Digital Media / [ed] Heidi A. Campbell & Ruth Tsuria, Oxon & New York: Routledge, 2022, 2, p. 56-70Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
The affordances of digital media highlight changes in the way individuals understand and express their sense of self in everyday life, as well as the way researchers have understood identity as an analytical category. Starting from an understanding of identity as an ongoing process formed in social interaction, this chapter presents and discusses two key themes that have saturated studies of identity in digital media and research on digital religion. The first of these themes concerns differences between “offline” or face-to-face, and “online” or digital contexts of social interaction, and how such differences shape the presentation of self-identity. The second theme concerns whether digital media as context for social interaction enhances the individual’s ability to form a self-understanding that gives meaning to her life-experiences, and negotiate the ways in which she becomes positioned by discursive and social structures that she encounters in interaction with others in various social spheres. The chapter concludes that the hybrid and personalized manifestations of religious identity that emerge in digital media spaces should not be disregarded as individualistic. Rather, they are deeply indicative of the new forms of social and technical infrastructures under which religion exists in contemporary society.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxon & New York: Routledge, 2022 Edition: 2
Keywords
identity, religion, digital media, hybrid, gender
National Category
Media and Communications Sociology Religious Studies
Research subject
Sociology of Religion
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-463312 (URN)9780367272364 (ISBN)9780367257767 (ISBN)9780429295683 (ISBN)
2022-01-072022-01-072025-01-31Bibliographically approved