Hashtag Islam: How Cyber-Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority by Benjamin Ale-ebrahi̇m

“…Through an investigation of what he defines as “cyber-Islamic environments (CIEs)” - a broad category of analysis encompassing everything from social media posts, online fatwa (Islamic legal opinion) services, transnational media conglomerates, and digitally-published magazines, to name a few examples - Bunt argues that the internet has played a critical role in transforming the ways in which Muslims engage with religious authorities, allowing greater access to religious knowledge beyond the bounds of traditional Islamic scholarship and providing a platform for alternative or minoritarian approaches to Islamic practice. …”
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Hashtag Islam: How Cyber-Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority by Benjamin Ale-ebrahim

“…Through an investigation of what he defines as “cyber-Islamic environments (CIEs)” - a broad category of analysis encompassing everything from social media posts, online fatwa (Islamic legal opinion) services, transnational media conglomerates, and digitally-published magazines, to name a few examples - Bunt argues that the internet has played a critical role in transforming the ways in which Muslims engage with religious authorities, allowing greater access to religious knowledge beyond the bounds of traditional Islamic scholarship and providing a platform for alternative or minoritarian approaches to Islamic practice. …”
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Hashtag Islam: How Cyber-Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority by Benjamin Ale-ebrahi̇m

“…Through an investigation of what he defines as “cyber-Islamic environments (CIEs)” - a broad category of analysis encompassing everything from social media posts, online fatwa (Islamic legal opinion) services, transnational media conglomerates, and digitally-published magazines, to name a few examples - Bunt argues that the internet has played a critical role in transforming the ways in which Muslims engage with religious authorities, allowing greater access to religious knowledge beyond the bounds of traditional Islamic scholarship and providing a platform for alternative or minoritarian approaches to Islamic practice. …”
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Scholarly work in the Internet age: Co-evolving technologies, institutions and workflows by Ludovico Bullini Orlandi, Francesca Ricciardi, Cecilia Rossignoli, Marco De Marco

“…JEL classification: M10, M15, Keywords: Research workflow, Scholarly commons, Academic publishers, Publish or perish, Open scientific data, Academic libraries, Academic incentives, Digital publishing…”
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Scholarly publishing in South Africa: the global south on the periphery by Andrew Joseph

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METHODOLOGY AND MEANING OF THE 3D MODELLING OF THE LOST BAALSHAMIN TEMPLE IN PALMYRA by P. M. Michel

“…To address this issue, the “Collart-Palmyre Project” at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) digitally published the scientific archive of Paul Collart who was in charge of the excavation of the temple in the 1950’. …”
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Primary care provider interventions for addressing cancer screening participation with marginalised patients: a scoping review protocol by Arlinda Ruco, Jill Tinmouth, Aisha K Lofters, Alexandra Cernat, Sabine Calleja

“…Charted data will be synthesised through a narrative synthesis using a piloted data extraction form informed by the Template for Intervention Description and Replication checklist.Ethics and dissemination Since this is a synthesis of digitally published literature, no ethics approval is needed for this work. …”
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Medium rare : exploring archives and their conversion from original to digital (part two – the holistic knowledge arsenal of paper-based archives) by Latham, Kiersten F.

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RESUBMIT_Analyzing the Raman Spectra of Graphenic Carbon Materials from Kerogens to Nanotubes: What Type of Information Can Be Extracted from Defect Bands? by Pellenq, Roland, Monthioux, Marc, Puech, Pascal, Kandara, Mariem, Paredes, Germercy, Moulin, Ludovic, Weiss-Hortala, Elsa, Kundu, Anirban, Ratel-Ramond, Nicolas, Plewa, Jérémie-Marie, Pellenq, Roland Jm

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Open to interpretation? Productive frameworks for understanding audience engagement with Open Educational Resources by Panagiota Alevizou

“…It then draws on perceptions and uses of OER and open media by faculty, proposing a framework with dimensions of cultural and socio-technical mediation by this particular segment, with focus on two types of users: the teacher as active interpreter and salient user, and the teacher as digital publisher. The paper argues that the socio-technical and pedagogical affordances of OER hinder many tensions pertaining to: a) the definition of openness; b) quality; and c) moral authority regarding both context and adaptability. …”
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