Presentation of initial Qualitative and Quantitative results at the BRAIS 2024 conference in Leeds, 20th & 21st of May 2024
Members of the DigiIslam project presented two panels (Qualitative & Quantitative) at the BRAIS 2024 conference. Presentations were given from the Lithuania Team (represented by Co-I Egdūnas Račius), the Poland team (represented by Co-I Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska) Spain Team (represented by Co-I Avi Astor as well as Postdoctoral researchers Rosa Martinez Cuadros and Ghufran Khir Allah) Sweden Team (represented by Co-Is Göran Larsson and Erika Willander) as well as the UK Team (represented by Co-I Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Postdoctoral researcher Anna Grasso). UK Co-I and web archiving lead Gary Bunt was also present at the conference presenting his own research as well as promoting the DigitIslam project’s new archives.
Professor Seán McLoughlin kindly accepted to be our discussant for the Quantitative panel presentations.
Online workshop “Self-presentation, image creation and lifestyle promotion in the social media” for Muslim women in Poland, 14th & 28th of October 2023
The online workshop addressed Muslim women engaged in running Islam-related social media accounts.
The main purpose was to increase awareness of the technical aspects of navigating social media platforms to achieve higher reach, increase visibility, and avoid the risks associated with online activity, including immunity to related stress. During the first part of the workshop (14.10.2023), the participants had the opportunity to become familiar with the essential theory of social media practices and ethics. They also spoke about their profiles on social media and Internet experience. During the second part (28.10.2023), women showed the results of their Internet activities within the last 2 weeks according to guidelines from the host. Detailed issues concerning women’s online activity have been also discussed with the host as well as with the other participants.
The host – prof. Magdalena Kachniewska
The Organisers – prof. Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, Iga Wermińska-Wiśnicka, Jaśmina Samsel.
Egdūnas Račius (Lithuania Team, Vytautas Magnus University) presented our project during the “Digital Innovations during Covid: Cross-National Insights ” roundtable at the EASR conference in Vilnius. The roundtable brought together different scholars working on projects concerning how religious groups and actors are negotiating digital technologies in different national contexts.
CHANSE Kick-Off Conference in Tallinn, Estonia June 1-2, 2023
The Digital Islam Across Europe team attended the Tallinn kick-off conference to present their research project.
Workshop with Polish Teachers, Kutno, Poland, May 29, 2023
On May 29, 2023 the Polish team organised a workshop for teachers about introducing Islamic content online. Around 15 teachers from the 1st High school of J. Dąbrowski in Kutno participated in the workshop. The workshop was delivered by Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska.
“Religion and Spirituality as Sites of Learning” Conference organized by the Donner Institute and the LeNeRe-project (Learning from new religion and spirituality), Åbo/Turku, Finland, May 15-17, 2023
Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska and Joanna Krotofil participated in an international conference “Religion and Spirituality as Sites of Learning” organized by the Donner Institute and Learning From New Religion and Spirituality (LeNeRe) in Turku (Finland) on 15-17 May 2023. They presented a paper entitled “Polish Islamic Internet as Site of Learning”.
