- 214 pages
- English
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About this book
In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups negotiate with digital culture in particular ways, situating such observations within a wider discourse of how Jewish groups throughout history have utilized communication technologies to maintain their Jewish identities across time and space. Chapters address issues related to the negotiation of authority between online users and offline religious leaders and institutions not only within ultra-Orthodox communities, but also within the broader Jewish religious culture, taking into account how Jewish engagement with media in Israel and the diaspora raises a number of important issues related to Jewish community and identity. Featuring recent scholarship by leading and emerging scholars of Judaism and media, Digital Judaism is an invaluable resource for researchers in new media, religion and digital culture.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Studying Jewish Engagement with Digital Media and Culture
- 2 The Jewish Communication Tradition and Its Encounters with (the) New Media
- 3 Appropriation and Innovation: Facebook, Grassroots Jews and Offline Post-Denominational Judaism
- 4 Yoatzot Halacha: Ruling the Internet, One Question at a Time
- 5 Sanctifying the Internet: Aish HaTorah's Use of the Internet for Digital Outreach
- 6 Jewish Games for Learning: Renewing Heritage Traditions in the Digital Age
- 7 Communicating Identity through Religious Internet Memes on the âTweeting Orthodoxiesâ Facebook Page
- 8 Legitimation of New Media and Community Building among Jewish Denominations in the US
- 9 On Pomegranates and Etrogs: Internet Filters as Practices of Media Ambivalence among National Religious Jews in Israel
- 10 Pashkevilim in Campaigns against New Media: What Can Pashkevilim Accomplish That Newspapers Cannot?
- 11 The Israeli Rabbi and the Internet
- Contributors
- Index