This week we are exploring how religious identity is presented and
negotiated in digital culture. In the class lecture we discussed identity
as process where an individual develops capacity to grasp
meaning about themselves and their position in everyday life. Online identities
refers to the strategies individuals use to present their self-reflection in
the digital environment by drawing on a variety of selected content, images, symbols to visualize their identity. Religious identity focuses on how individual
understand their relationship to a given religious or spiritual context and
seek to express this in visual and verbal ways.
In this week’s blog
you are asked to reflect on how the memes you are studying represent the
religious identity of the specific group you are studying. Attentions should be paid to the images,
symbols and dominant ideas that are spotlighted in these memes and how these
highlight certain dominant characteristics or assumptions of this religious
community.
Please respond to ONE of the following questions:
-What are the common
and prominent images or symbols highlighted in these meme that are highlight as
key markers of this religious group?
OR
-Are there certain
ideas that are accentuated in these memes that speak to the perceived beliefs
of this community?
After you share your observations, please answer BOTH
of the following questions:
-Why do you think
these are highlighted in these memes? What messages are being communicated by
the ways these are presented?
-How do your
observations relate to claims about how religious identity is presented and
negotiated in digital culture as express in the class lecture and readings this
week?
Happy blogging!
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