ICTs in Religious Communities: Communal and Domestic Integration of New Media Among Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy in Israel

2019 ◽  
pp. 221-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nakhi Mishol-Shauli ◽  
Malka Shacham ◽  
Oren Golan
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Religious Communities

It’s the text, stupid! Mobile phones, religious communities, and the silent threat of text messages

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 2325-2346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hananel Rosenberg ◽  
Menahem Blondheim ◽  
Elihu Katz
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Perception Of Threat ◽  
Textual Community ◽  
Communal Space ◽  
Voice Calls

This study explores the Jewish ultra-Orthodox “kosher cellphone,” a device that can be used only for voice calls. It asks why the leadership of this highly textual community didn’t stop at blocking Internet use over the kosher cellphone and went on to block texting messages as well. Using both interviews with ultra-Orthodox anti-cellphone-activists and content analysis of online discussions among community members, the study analyzes the perception of threat that underlies the prohibition of texting, and explores how this prohibition is received in the community. The findings show that in contrast to the threat posed by improper content, which affects the external boundaries of this enclave community, blocking texting stems from a perception that the technology’s configuration threatens intra-communal monitoring and the control of the dissemination of information within the communal space. Our findings add a number of dimensions to the current understanding of the nexus of new media, social control, and isolated religious communities.

scholarly journals Holy Selfie as the Channel of Media Memory in the Digital World

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Denis S. Artamonov ◽  
Elena N. Medvedeva ◽  
Sophia V. Tikhonova ◽  
Marina L. Volovikova
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Memory Channel

Selfie as a special genre of digital photography performs a variety of functions, giving users the possibility to refer themselves to places, persons and events, thus personifying one's self-presentation and expressing the author's attitude to the world and their own experiences. Selfie is actively used in the representation of religious life, first of all, documenting the connection of the authors to sacred places, objects, persons and events, preserving the memory of significant moments in the life of an individual and making it available to the public. The memorial function of photography in the holy selfie format merges with its communicative function, changing the motivation of religious practice, redirecting it from the acquisition of religious experience to its sharing, empathy and participation, i.e. socializing religious experience. By analysing likes and reposts of selfie content, one can create strategies for the union of virtual religious communities around the offline experience of their members. In this article we will try to identify the differences in the ways of organizing the semantic space of holy selfie, practiced by the followers of Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Holy selfie will be studied as a new media memory channel to which users resort in order to correlate the practices of constructing personal and group memory for the reproduction of religious context by banal religion. Our work is based on the content analysis of selfie photos posted on Instagram.

Technology Use in the Religious Communities in Israel: Combining Traditional Society and Advanced Communications

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaron Katz
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
Suitable Expression

The technological development of the electronic media and the changes in their role create a process of transition to using alternative modes of communication, which combine mass media and inter-personal communication. These means are alternative to traditional media; they serve segments of the population which do not receive a suitable expression in the institutionalized media, and provide them with information and advertisement which bypass the limitations imposed on the media. The largest alternative activity taking place in Israel is targeted to the orthodox and Haredi (ultra-orthodox) population, mainly through advanced technological means, such as the internet and satellite transmissions. This study explores the ideological dilemma of using advanced communications technology by the religious public, while trying to avoid its cultural hazards and still using it effectively. It examines the characteristics of technology consumption and the use of new media among the religious target group in Israel.

scholarly journals Minecrafting Bar Mitzvah: Two Rabbis Negotiating and Cultivating Learner-Driven Inclusion through New Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-206
Author(s):  
Owen Gottlieb
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Inquiry Approach

Abstract In 2013, a boy with special needs used the video game Minecraft to deliver the sermon at his bar mitzvah at a Reform synagogue, an apparently unique ritual phenomenon to this day. Using a narrative inquiry approach, this article examines two rabbis’ negotiations with new media, leading up to, during, and upon reflection after the event. The article explores acceptance, innovation, and validation of new media in religious practice, drawing on Campbell’s (2010) framework for negotiation of new media in religious communities. Clergy biography, philosophy, and institutional context all impact the negotiations with new media. By providing context of a set of factors influencing a particular negotiation and validation of a ritual and educational innovation using new media, the article intends to demonstrate the importance of clergy narrative for understanding new media negotiations in religious settings, and in particular in progressive religious communities

Special Issue on “New Media and Social Psychology”

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-57
Author(s):  
Bernad Batinic ◽  
Anja Goeritz
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
New Media ◽  
Special Issue

Review of The New Media and Education: Their Impact on Society.

1967 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 525-525
Author(s):  
MORTON DEUTSCH
Keyword(s):  
New Media
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