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- Vit Sisler is a lecturer and a Ph.D. candidate at Charles University in Prague, where he is finishing his thesis on new media, the Internet and the production of contemporary Islamic knowledge. He was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University in 2008-2009. Vit Sisler has published dozens of articles, many of which have appeared in internationally renowned journals such as Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Lecture Notes in Computer Science. He is also founder and editor-in-chief of Digital Islam, a compound research project on Islam, the Middle East, and digital media (digitalislam.eu).
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Video Games, Video Clips, and Islam: New Media and the Communication of Values
http://www.digitalislam.eu/article.do?articleId=2550
This chapter analyzes video games and video clips with an Islamic emphasis and the various levels at which they convey ethical and moral values. Both video games and video clips have been neglected and marginalized by the ac… Continue
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 12:09pm —
Palestine in Pixels: The Holy Land, Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Reality Construction in Video Games
http://www.digitalislam.eu/article.do?articleId=2515
This article explores the ways in which Palestine is envisioned, and its representation constructed, in contemporary video games. At the same time, capitalizing on Bogost’s notion of “procedurality”, this article discuss… Continue
Posted on October 29, 2009 at 6:10am —
European Courts’ Authority Contested? The Case of Marriage and Divorce Fatwas On-line
Vit Sisler
http://www.digitalislam.eu/article.do?articleId=2350
This article explores Islamic websites providing normative content for European Muslim minorities. It focuses on four distinct Sunni websites and analyzes their fatwas, i.e. legal and religious recommendations issued in matters related to family law. Drawing from a… Continue
Posted on July 7, 2009 at 4:44pm —
The Politics of Virtual Fatwa Counseling in the 21st Century
Jens Kutscher
http://www.digitalislam.eu/article.do?articleId=2349
A multitude of fatwa services sprung up on the Internet during the last few years and has grown since. One finds askimam.org, islamicity.com, islamonline.net, and islamqa.com among them. Yet it is not only these private Muslim jurisconsults who maintain websites, but also government-aff… Continue
Posted on July 7, 2009 at 4:44pm —
“Gaining Knowledge”: Salafi Activism in German and Dutch Online Forums
Carmen Becker
http://www.digitalislam.eu/article.do?articleId=2348
Recent years have witnessed an expansion of Salafi activism into computer-mediated environments like online discussion forums. Forum activities are part of the activists' endeavor to access the religious sources (Quran and Sunnah) and, through these sources, the lives of the p… Continue
Posted on July 7, 2009 at 4:41pm —
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