Journal article
Prayer-bots and religious worship on Twitter: a call for a wider research agenda
- Abstract:
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 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
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1572-8641
- ISSN:
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0924-6495
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:994991
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uuid:66cf3d4d-ec7b-459a-8cfb-b7947cac3379
- Local pid:
- pubs:994991
- Source identifiers:
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994991
- Deposit date:
- 2019-05-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Öhman et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- © The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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