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Prayer-bots and religious worship on Twitter: a call for a wider research agenda

Abstract:

The automation of online social life is an urgent issue for researchers and the public alike. However, one of the most significant uses of such technologies seems to have gone largely unnoticed by the research community: religion. Focusing on Islamic Prayer Apps, which automatically post prayers from its users’ accounts, we show that even one such service is already responsible for millions of tweets daily, constituting a significant portion of Arabic-language Twitter traffic. We argue that t...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1007/s11023-019-09498-3

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Social Sciences Division
Department:
Oxford Internet Institute
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-5444-2280
Publisher:
Springer Publisher's website
Journal:
Minds and Machines Journal website
Volume:
29
Issue:
2
Pages:
331-338
Publication date:
2019-04-01
Acceptance date:
2019-03-25
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EISSN:
1572-8641
ISSN:
0924-6495
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pubs:994991
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uuid:66cf3d4d-ec7b-459a-8cfb-b7947cac3379
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pubs:994991
Source identifiers:
994991
Deposit date:
2019-05-20

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