[Air-L] Cross-cultural digital religion in the age of corona?

Sat Mar 28 08:44:01 PDT 2020

We have been studying the video broadcast by religion-related public
figures in Bangladesh. One thing that we have been seeing there is, many
suggestions of the religious leaders are being criticized by others from a
'scientific' point of view. Sometimes those videos are being identified as
a source of misinformation.

Regards
Ishtiaque
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
University of Toronto
www.ishtiaque.net

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:33 AM Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess at media.uio.no> wrote:

> Hi Mark & colleagues,
>
> Just to say thanks for this - most helpful and interesting, however
> deeply distressing the topics.
>
> Thanks as well to Sally for an off-list exchange which helped clarify
> some of my misunderstandings regarding her initial suggestions.
>
> Will keep you posted off-list of whatever we find out.
>
> Again, many thanks and all best,
> - c.
>
> On 25/03/2020 17:07, Mark D. Johns wrote:
> > Charles,
> >
> > You are correct that the national news media in the U.S. have not
> > given a lot of attention to children, local stations have done so. Two
> > network affiliates in our top-20 market have run stories just in the
> > past two days:
> >
> https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video/4492262-your-questions-about-kids-coronavirus-answered/
> >
> https://www.kare11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/families-figuring-out-coping-techniques-during-social-distancing/89-712b30c1-c10b-48c5-a2f3-bd59e5eb9dad
> >
> > and a quick Google search turned up these from other markets:
> >
> https://www.ksla.com/2020/03/23/suffering-silence-covid-increased-risk-child-abuse/
> >
> https://fox6now.com/2020/03/23/texas-hospital-sees-spike-in-severe-child-abuse-cases-possibly-related-to-covid-19-stress/
> >
> > Understanding how news media work, I also searched for PR activity
> > that may have triggered some of these stories, and discovered this
> > from Monday:
> >
> https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/school-closings-due-to-covid-19-present-potential-for-increased-risk-of-child-exploitation
> >
> > An interesting line of research. Hope you and Connie are well.
> > --
> > Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
> > Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies
> > at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA
> > now residing in Minneapolis, MN
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > "Get the facts first. You can distort them later."
> >      ---Mark Twain
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:29 AM Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess at media.uio.no>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear colleagues,
> >>
> >> On 23/03/2020 11:01, Sally Applin wrote:
> >>> You might query Yale’s HRAF ethnography database (if you have access)
> to
> >>> see what non- broadcast traditions are.
> >>
> >> Thanks much for this - certainly useful, rich and interesting.  I'm not
> >> seeing, on first blush at least, much that intersects with Digital
> >> Religion.  As interesting and useful as the materials on religion are,
> >> "digital" as a search term returns no results. Nor do the terms
> >> "Scandinavian," "Denmark," etc.  But will keep poking for all the other
> >> goodies to be gleaned.
> >>>
> >>> The broadcast time/ routine may have nothing to do with the material or
> >>> even culture and more to do with suddenly being at home.
> >>
> >> or all of the above.
> >> Regrets for not making explicit that yes, most people in Norway and
> >> Denmark have been under quarantine and related restrictions for some
> >> time, e.g., since March 12 in the Norwegian case.
> >>
> >> And a fourth data point: in Norwegian coverage of all of these disasters
> >> - it is striking that somewhere around the 3rd or 4th prioritized story
> >> on national news covers apparently widespread and deep concerns about
> >> the welfare of children who are likely susceptible to violence and
> >> sexual attack.  Now that schools and kindergartens are closed, these
> >> (usually) safe havens for such children are no longer available: what,
> >> reporters keep asking, is the government doing to protect these children
> >> under the new circumstances?
> >>
> >> None of my U.S.-based news media, even the most left-wing, etc. seem to
> >> mention this.  Please let me know if I'm missing something.
> >>
> >> Again, many thanks and all best despite it all,
> >> - charles
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sally Applin, Ph.D.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Professor in Media Studies
> >> Department of Media and Communication
> >> University of Oslo
> >> <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
> >>
> >> Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies,
> >> Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
> >>
> >> Co-chair & Editor, Internet Research Ethics 3.0
> >> <https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf>
> >>
> >> 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out!
> >> <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>
> >>
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> >> Oslo, Norway
> >> c.m.ess at media.uio.no
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> --
> Professor in Media Studies
> Department of Media and Communication
> University of Oslo
> <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
>
> Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies,
> Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
>
> Co-chair & Editor, Internet Research Ethics 3.0
> <https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf>
>
> 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out!
> <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>
>
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> Blindern 0317
> Oslo, Norway
> c.m.ess at media.uio.no
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Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
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Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto.
web: http://www.ishtiaque.net/