Islam in the Cyber Space of Keralites: Exploring the Questions on Authority and Ideology in a Counter Public Sphere

As one of the seminal works on the presence of Islam in the cyber environment of Keralites, this study strives to place this discourse in an international frame work by drawing analogy with scholarships on new media in general and new media and Islam in particular. It draws upon cyber ethnography and field ethnography, in between October 2013 to January 2014. Followed by it, the researcher argues that internet and its surrounding technologies are not challenging the mediated understanding of Islam and its knowledge system, rather they extend this practice from geographically or culturally limited sources; and introduce multiple sources as well as ways to it.

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