Tweet the Message? Religious Authority and Social Media Innovation

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Tweet the Message? Religious Authority and Social Media Innovation "
Pauline Hope Cheong

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082495
Doc. No	:	LA126124
Call No	:	‭10.1163/21659214-90000059‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Pauline Hope Cheong
Title & Author	:	Tweet the Message? Religious Authority and Social Media Innovation [Article]\ Pauline Hope Cheong
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/3
Page No	:	1–19
Abstract	:	Religious believers have historically adapted Scripture into brief texts for wider dissemination through relatively inexpensive publications. The emergence of Twitter and other microblogging tools today afford clerics a platform for real time information sharing with its interface for short written texts, which includes providing links to graphics and sound recordings that can be forwarded and responded to by others. This paper discusses emergent practices in tweet authorship which embed and are inspired by sacred Scripture, in order to deepen understanding of the changing nature of sacred texts and of the constitution of religious authority as pastors engage microblogging and social media networks. Drawing upon a Twitter feed by a prominent Christian megachurch leader with global influence, this paper identifies multiple ways in which tweets have been encoded to quote, remix and interpret Scripture, and to serve as choice aphorisms that reflect or are inspired by Scripture. Implications for the changing nature of sacred digital texts and the reconstruction of religious authority are also discussed. Religious believers have historically adapted Scripture into brief texts for wider dissemination through relatively inexpensive publications. The emergence of Twitter and other microblogging tools today afford clerics a platform for real time information sharing with its interface for short written texts, which includes providing links to graphics and sound recordings that can be forwarded and responded to by others. This paper discusses emergent practices in tweet authorship which embed and are inspired by sacred Scripture, in order to deepen understanding of the changing nature of sacred texts and of the constitution of religious authority as pastors engage microblogging and social media networks. Drawing upon a Twitter feed by a prominent Christian megachurch leader with global influence, this paper identifies multiple ways in which tweets have been encoded to quote, remix and interpret Scripture, and to serve as choice aphorisms that reflect or are inspired by Scripture. Implications for the changing nature of sacred digital texts and the reconstruction of religious authority are also discussed.
Descriptor	:	Bible
Descriptor	:	pastors
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	religious authority
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Singapore
Descriptor	:	social media
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Sociology of Religion
Descriptor	:	Twitter
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/21659214-90000059‬