Digital British Islam: How do Cyber Islamic Environments impact everyday lives?

数字英国伊斯兰教：网络伊斯兰环境如何影响日常生活？

• 批准号: ES/W002175/1
• 负责人: Gary Richard Bunt
• 金额: $ 102.46万
• 依托单位: University of Wales Trinity Saint David
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW002175%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; British; Islam; How; do

The emergence of widespread and inexpensive printing technologies 200 to 300 years ago transformed social, religious, knowledge and political hierarchies within Muslim contexts. Access to inexpensive books eventually meant that religious (and other) knowledge was no longer out of reach for literate societies. This led to rapid change within many Muslim contexts: existing hierarchies dissipated, new ones arose, revolutions including feminist ones started, and regimes were overturned. Sociological imaginings within Muslim, and indeed, all contexts were changed forever.We are now in the midst of an era of even bigger transformation. Online digital technologies have been generally available since the 1990s and their impact on the social lives of religious communities (and indeed all communities) is as transformative as that of print media. Set against this background, this multi-disciplinary team aims to undertake the first-ever exploration of the social impacts of digital activities that focusses on lived experiences of diverse Muslim communities in Britain. Digital British Muslims will map and interrogate the impact of the exponential growth of cyber Islamic environments (CIEs) on intergenerational transformations within diverse UK Muslim communities, and the extent of their influence on Muslim lives, societies, practices and beliefs. Focusing on changing narratives and experiences of religious authority, gender and political agency, this unique project will provide a platform for mapping, interpreting and understanding the diversity, interlinkages and influence of CIEs, examining reciprocal interactions between the 'digital' and the 'real'. The project themes provide scope to what is an ambitious project and are areas in which observable intergenerational transformations among Muslims in Britain have occurred - transformations that are catalysed by growing access to and reliance upon CIEs among Muslims in Britain.Methodologically, this project draws upon the expertise of a multi-disciplinary team to use advanced digital archiving techniques combined with a more traditional mixed methods approach entailing focus group discussions, interviews, diary solicitation and a national survey. Rooted in lived experience, through consultative research approaches, it is envisaged that this research will directly respond to the concerns and needs of those who can use its findings in policy, organisational and community settings. Mapping CIEs within a set geographical context, which in this case is the UK, is complicated due to online spaces transcending national borders and identity categorisations. The inherent transnational nature of Islam and Muslim identities in Britain poses further challenges for this research. Yet this is also an opportunity for new theorisations around identity and geography in religious online spaces. Finally, this research is predicated on being meaningful and relevant to those who can use its findings. It is envisaged that four audiences will benefit from this work: (i) Muslim organisations and communities, through findings that will inform their organisational digital strategies. (ii) Policy makers, through findings relevant to areas of policy-interest in relation to Muslims in Britain (iii) Public and third sector organisations that engage with Muslim communities in the UK, through findings that enable them to better reach/access/engage diverse Muslim communities and (iv) Academia. Impact will be achieved through a planned programme of public-facing and academic impact activities and resources including a sustainable, curated and open access archive of CIEs collated during the lifetime of the project, a policy brief, resources to aid community organisations in developing their digital strategies and teaching resources.

200到300年前，广泛而廉价的印刷技术的出现改变了穆斯林的社会、宗教、知识和政治等级。最终，获得便宜的书籍意味着宗教（和其他）知识对有文化的社会来说不再遥不可及。这导致了许多穆斯林背景下的快速变化：现有的等级制度消失，新的等级制度出现，包括女权主义在内的革命开始，政权被推翻。穆斯林内部的社会学想象，事实上，所有的背景都永远改变了。我们正处在一个更大变革的时代。自20世纪90年代以来，在线数字技术已经普遍可用，它们对宗教社区（实际上是所有社区）的社会生活的影响与印刷媒体一样具有变革性。在此背景下，这个多学科团队旨在首次探索数字活动的社会影响，重点关注英国不同穆斯林社区的生活经历。数字英国穆斯林将绘制和询问网络伊斯兰环境（CIEs）指数增长对不同英国穆斯林社区代际转变的影响，以及它们对穆斯林生活，社会，实践和信仰的影响程度。这个独特的项目专注于宗教权威、性别和政治机构不断变化的叙述和经验，将为绘制、解释和理解CIEs的多样性、相互联系和影响提供一个平台，研究“数字”和“真实”之间的相互作用。项目主题为这一雄心勃勃的项目提供了范围，并且是英国穆斯林中发生可观察到的代际转变的领域-这种转变是由英国穆斯林越来越多地接触和依赖CIEs催化的。在方法上，该项目借鉴了一个多学科团队的专业知识，使用先进的数字存档技术，结合更传统的混合方法，包括焦点小组讨论、访谈、日记征集和全国调查。根据生活经验，通过协商研究方法，设想这项研究将直接回应那些能够在政策、组织和社区环境中使用其研究结果的人的关切和需要。由于在线空间超越了国界和身份分类，在特定的地理背景下（在本例中是英国）绘制CIEs是复杂的。伊斯兰教和英国穆斯林身份固有的跨国性质为这一研究提出了进一步的挑战。然而，这也为宗教网络空间中围绕身份和地理的新理论提供了机会。最后，这项研究的前提是对那些可以使用其发现的人有意义和相关。预计有四种受众将从这项工作中受益：(i)穆斯林组织和社区，通过调查结果为其组织数字战略提供信息。（ii）政策制定者，通过与英国穆斯林相关的政策利益领域的研究结果；（iii）与英国穆斯林社区接触的公共和第三部门组织，通过使他们能够更好地接触/接触/参与不同的穆斯林社区的研究结果；（iv）学术界。影响将通过有计划的面向公众和学术影响活动和资源来实现，包括在项目生命周期内整理的可持续、精心策划和开放获取的CIEs档案、政策简报、帮助社区组织制定数字战略的资源和教学资源。