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Identity, connection, community? A study of the uses and gratifications of Muslim Tumblr bloggers.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Identity, connection, community? A study of the uses and gratifications of Muslim Tumblr bloggers./
Author:	Pennington, Rosemary.
Description:	277 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-10A(E).
Subject:	Mass communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3707139
ISBN:	9781321815429

Identity, connection, community? A study of the uses and gratifications of Muslim Tumblr bloggers.
Pennington, Rosemary.

Identity, connection, community? A study of the uses and gratifications of Muslim Tumblr bloggers. - 277 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2015.

This dissertation explores the ways Muslim bloggers writing in English use social media site Tumblr. Muslims have historically been framed as scary others who threaten the ideals which are said to structure life in the western world. This framing dates back to Europe's colonial era and has informed media narratives about who Muslims are ever since. This, in turn, has helped shape Islamophobic and anti-Muslim sentiment in many parts of the world. This dissertation examines how Muslims fashion identities and communities in a social media space against such a backdrop. It is informed by research from the fields of mass communication, new media studies, sociology, religious studies, and global studies and employs a mixed method approach. This research design includes survey, interview, and textual analysis methodologies. The survey portion of the dissertation is guided by uses and gratifications theory as it seeks to understand what uses drive bloggers' participation in Tumblr. The interview methodology provides an opportunity to begin to understand why certain uses are more important than others as well as what use of the space actually means to participants. The textual analysis opens a window into understanding the type of content these bloggers are producing.

ISBN: 9781321815429Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144804
Mass communication.

Identity, connection, community? A study of the uses and gratifications of Muslim Tumblr bloggers.
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520 $a Conducted over the course of a year, this dissertation finds use of Tumblr by these bloggers to be complicated and diverse. The uses and gratifications analysis showed that bloggers were often spurred to use Tumblr for reasons related to their religious identity, but religion did not determine the gratification they derived from that use. It also showed that interacting and connecting to others was an important motivator of use of Tumblr.
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