scholarly journals Mediatization of religion in “texting culture”: self-help religion and the shifting of religious authority

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moch Fakhruroji
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Communication Practice ◽  
Self Help ◽  
New Phase

This  research  is  the  study of SMS Tauhiid phenomena as a  religious practicein  the context of media culture. SMS Tauhiid  service enables  its customer  toaccess  religious messages  through SMS which  is  in particular  contexts  couldpotentially  bring  new  patterns  of  religious  practice. This  article  uses  themediatization  concept  dealing with media  studies  and  political  economy  aswell.  I  argue  that  tausiah  as  (Islamic)  religious  communication  practice havetransformed  into a new pattern  that caused by the accomodative actions thathas taken by the religious leaders and actors against media logics. On the onehand,  this  phenomenon has  opened  a new phase  in disseminating  religiousmessages, however on  the other hand mediatization of  religion has potentialin causing a shift  in the role of religious leaders as the religious authorities.Penelitian ini merupakan studi tentang fenomena SMS Tauhiid sebagai bentukpraktik  agama  dalam  konteks  budaya media.  SMS Tauhiid memungkinkansetiap  pelanggan  dapat mengakses  nasihat  agama melalui  SMS  yang  dalamkonteks  tertentu  berpotensi memunculkan  pola-pola  baru  dalam  beragama.Artikel ini menggunakan pendekatan konsep mediatisasi yang memiliki kaitanerat  dengan  disiplin media  studies  dan  ekonomi  politik.  Saya  berargumen bahwa  tausiah  sebagai  praktik  komunikasi  agama  (Islam)  telah mengalamitransformasi  kedalam  bentuk  baru  disebabkan  tindakan  akomodatif  yangdilakukan  para  tokoh  dan  aktor  agama  terhadap  logika media. Di  satu  sisi,fenomena ini telah membuka babak baru bagi proses penyebaran pesan-pesanagama,  namun  di  sisi  lain mediatisasi  berpeluang menyebabkan  pergeseranperan  tokoh  agama  sebagai  pihak  yang memiliki  otoritas  sumber  informasiagama.

scholarly journals MEDIATIZATION OF ISLAMIC DOCTRINE IN A NEW ERA OF DIGITAL INDONESIA: The Case of Ḥadīth on Dajjāl

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
D. I. Ansusa Putra ◽  
Agus Firdaus Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Link ◽  
New Era ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Media ◽  
Changing Role

<p><span lang="IN">This research is a study of the mediatization of the ḥadīth on Dajjāl (the anti-Christ) in the context of media culture. Mediatization of the ḥadīth through illustrations allows every Muslim to understand the stages and events that will occur at the </span><span>End of the Time</span><span> <span lang="IN">(<em>Ākhir al-Zamān</em>). Such ḥadīth is pre-actual doctrinal texts in Islam. This article uses the theory of mediatization that has a close link with the discipline of media studies and religiosity. </span></span><span>We</span><span lang="IN"> argue that the ḥadīth illus­tration as an expression of religious beliefs is a continuation of the massive use of technology in understanding religious doctrines. On the other hand, the illustration of the ḥadīth</span><span>.</span><span> <span lang="IN">Ḥadīth on the Dajjāl in digital media has formed a new pattern in the understanding of ḥadīth from abstract-imaginative to con</span></span><span>c</span><span lang="IN">rete-imaginative. The illustration of the Dajjāl has become an indication of the widespread role of the media in the spread of Islamic doctrines, and its changing role from being dominated by the texts to being dominated by the logic of religion. This research uses the theory of mediatization with the approach of media culture. The data is obtained from footage of such ḥadīth documentary airing on You</span><span>T</span><span lang="IN">ube accounts. These shows usually refer to preachers who are concerned with conveying the contents of the ḥadīth.</span></p>

Keep Moving, Stay Tuned

Transfers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marith Dieker
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Sociotechnical Systems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Traffic Information ◽  
Traffic Jams ◽  
Information Updates ◽  
The 1960S

With the rise of privatized automobility and the increase of traffic jams, new sociotechnical systems have emerged that aim at traffic control. Radio traffic information has been a key element in these systems. Through a qualitative analysis of historical radio broadcasts of the largest Dutch news station between 1960 and 2000, this article explores the changing format and content of traffic information updates. I will show how the rather formal, detailed, and paternalistic narratives of the traffic reports in the 1960s gave way to more informal, witty, yet flow-controlling traffic information discourse in later decades. I will explain the dynamics involved by drawing on mobility and media studies and by developing two distinct notions of flow, one of which builds conceptually on Raymond Williams’s work on mobile privatization, the other is grounded in the field of traffic management. In so doing, this article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the role of public radio broadcasts in our world of privatized automobility.

The Politics of Urban Informality in Philadelphia’s Recovery House Movement

Urban Studies ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 2555-2570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P. Fairbanks
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
The Other ◽  
Survival Strategy ◽  
Urban Informality ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Row Houses ◽  
The City ◽  
Survival Mechanisms

There are some 60 000 vacant properties in the city of Philadelphia, 30 000 of which are abandoned row houses. In the neighbourhood of Kensington, street-level entrepreneurs have reconfigured hundreds of former working-class row homes to produce the Philadelphia recovery house movement: an extra-legal poverty survival strategy for addicts and alcoholics located in the city’s poorest and most heavily blighted zones. The purpose of this paper is to explore, ethnographically, the ways in which informal poverty survival mechanisms articulate with the restructuring of the contemporary welfare state and the broader political economy of Philadelphia. It is argued that recovery house networks accommodate an interrelated set of political rationalities animated not only by retrenchment and the churning of welfare bodies, but also by the agency of informal operators and the politics of self-help. Working as an alternative and partially vestigial boundary institution or buffer zone to formal regimes of governance, the recovery house movement reflects the ‘other story’ of the new urban politics in Philadelphia.

The Small Urban Center in Rural Development: Kita (Mali) and Testour (Tunisia)

Africa ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas S. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
West African ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Atmosphere ◽  
The Political ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
North African ◽  
Small Urban Center

IntroductionThis paper examines the role of the small urban center in promoting rural development through an analysis of two cases, one West African and the other North African. Kita (Mali) and Testour (Tunisia) are approximately the same size, have something of an urban atmosphere in contrast to their surrounding countryside, and play a roughly analogous role within the political economy of their nations. Both were in single-party states at the time of research; had had French colonialism for about the same period; and have modern institutions that owe something to the French pattern. Both have experienced attempts to build socialism.

On the Theory and Practice of Compradors: The Role of ʿAbbud Pasha in the Egyptian Political Economy

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Vitalis
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Problem ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Strict Definition

One of the most resilient ideas introduced to the analysis of economic and political change under colonialism and imperialism is the “comprador” and, by extension, the “comprador bourgeoisie.” The comprador in essence embodies or internalizes the basic theoretical problem of the peripheral political economy: economic activity oriented primarily for the benefit of the other.1 By strict definition, compradors are native agents or partners of foreign investors who operate in some form in the local economy. However, in the theoretical context of assessing the possibilities for local industrial development, compradors represent forces that hinder change. As “agents of foreign imperialism,” they act “against the interest of the national economy.”2

scholarly journals Karl Marx and the Study of Media and Culture Today

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Future Tense ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Theory Of Value

The task of this paper discusses the role of Marx in analysing media, communica-tion and culture today. An analysis of three contemporary Cultural Studies works – Lawrence Grossberg’s monograph Cultural Studies in the Future Tense, John Hartley’s monograph Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies and Paul Smith’s edited volume The Renewal of Cultural Studies – shows that there is an agreement that the economy needs to be taken more into account by Cultural Studies, but disagreement on which approach should be taken and what the role of Karl Marx’s works shall be. The paper argues that Marx’s labour theory of value is especially important for critically analysing the media, culture and communica-tion. Labour is still a blind spot of the study of culture and the media, although this situation is slowly improving. It is maintained that the turn away from Marx in Cultural and Media Studies was a profound mistake that should be reverted. Only an engagement with Marx can make Cultural and Media Studies topical, politically relevant, practical and critical, in the current times of global crisis and resurgent critique.

Religion and Deaf Identity

2019 ◽  
pp. 72-95
Author(s):  
Noah Buchholz ◽  
Darby Jared Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Social Identities ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Identity Component ◽  
Deaf Identity ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter represents the first-ever effort to examine the role of religion in the realm of deaf identities. The authors, both of whom are deaf religious leaders, with one representing Christianity and the other Judaism, provide a cutting-edge analysis of the relationship between religion and deaf identities. They present different interpretations based on religious treatises that include perspectives of deaf people. These perspectives are fraught with the complexities of multiple social identities that interact with the deaf identity component. While religion has the potential to coalesce deaf people and affirm their deaf identities, the chapter also explores how the religious setting can manifest the dynamics of oppression, dynamics that potentially may result in personal and community dissociation.

scholarly journals Cultural Studies and Sociology of Culture in Germany: Relations and Interrelations

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo Göttlich
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
The One ◽  
Do So

Over the last three decades, attitudes towards cultural studies in Germany have developed within contexts of contact and conflict with a variety of disciplines, e.g. ethnology, anthropology, sociology, as well as the sociology of culture, liter-ary studies and Kulturwissenschaft(en). On the one hand there is a strong academic interest in how cultural studies perceives and analyzes media culture, popular culture and everyday life. On the other hand boundaries with humanities and social science remain, which leads to criticism and conflicts with cultural studies and its achievements. I will discuss some of the problems concerning the perception and reception of cultural studies among representatives of Kulturwissenschaft(en) and sociology of culture. Furthermore I will draw on the role of cultural studies in thematizing cultural change and conflicts, and its ability to do so in a way that shows the importance of culture and politics.

scholarly journals Perjuangan Rakyat Banten Melawan Belanda: Studi Tentang K.H. Wasyid

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Parlindungan Siregar
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
The People ◽  
Military Background ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Netherlands Indies ◽  
The Government

Abstract The Dutch administration took-over  VOC in 1799 following its collaps and bangkrupt. Since, there were many government policies to the people of Netherlands Indies caused greater challenges form the people by making against and rebellions. These against and rebellions  had started from the beginning of nineteen century to the end, i.e. the revolt of the Banten peasent in Cilegon 1888 under K.H. Wasyid command. This study focused on how K.H. Wasyid made contact with the other religious leaders;  like kiai, ustadz, sufi teacher, and with other  informal leader like Jawara to involve and joint the action of against and rebellion faced the government. And how he made planning and preparation. The other question which is to be answered related to why his call very interesting for them whereas he was not a military background. This study also to know what was the matter in this rebellion, before, and after. Academicaly, the role of K.H. Wasyid was not elaborated by scholars yet  although this rebellion was precepted seriously by the Dutch Administration and commented by many professors.---Abstrak Pemerintah konial Belanda mengambil-alih VOC pada tahun 1799 sebab korupsi dan bangkrut. Sejak itu, banyak kebijakan pemerinah yang diambil berimplikasi sangat.  Akhirnya mereka melakukan perlawanan dan pemberontakan terhadap pemerintah yang dimulai sejak awal abad XIX hingga pemberontakan Cilegon 1888 yang dipimpin KH. Wasyid. Studi tentang ini fokus pada bagaimana KH. Wasyid melakukan kontak dengan pemimpin-pemimpin agama lainnya seperti Kiai, Ustadz, dan guru sufi agar terlibat dan  ikut aksi perlawanan dan bagaimana beliau membuat perencanaan dan persiapan. Pertanyaan berikutnya adalah mengapa ajakan KH. Wasid menarik padahal beliau tidak terlatih dalam militer. Riset ini juga penting untuk mengetahui apa yang terjadi dalam peristiwa ini dan sesudahnya. Peran KH. Wasyid belum dielaborasi secara akademik oleh para sarjana padahal pemberontakan ini dianggap serius oleh pemerintah kolonial bahkan banyak guru besar yang mengomentari peristiwa ini.DOI: 10.15408/al-turas.v23i1.4801

scholarly journals WAKAF UANG MENURUT TUAN GURU NAHDLATUL WATHAN DI LOMBOK NUSA TENGGARA BARAT

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Anton Priyo Nugroho ◽  
Siti Achiria ◽  
M. Arif Muliadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Differences Of Opinion

Nahdlatul Wathan has a significant role in religious social development, especially in the Lombok area of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB). The role cannot be separated from the tuan guru as religious leaders of Nahdlatul Wathan. This is not to deny the other party's role, but the role of religious leader like tuan guru is very dominant in Lombok. On the other hand, cash waqf develops as one of the contemporary issues of the ummah. Cash waqf is still considered a new phenomenon among Muslims in Indonesia, so there are still differences of opinion between religious leaders. Tuan guru’s view on cash waqf is very important in order for cash waqfto develop well. Therefore this study aims to know the opinion of the tuan guru about cash waqf. This study used a qualitative approach, and it used interview method to 10 tuan gurus of Nahdhatul Wathan in Lombok NTB. The study found that most of tuan guru allowed the cash waqf with the consideration that the benefits were greater than the harm. Only a small proportion of tuan guruforbid cash waqf because waqf should be fixed, unchanged and should not be reduced.

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