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It is exclusively an online journal, begun in late 2006.
CyberOrient is an online journal of the virtual Middle East and Islamic world published by the American Anthropological Association, Charles University and Lund University. CyberOrient presents original, peer-reviewed articles and books reviews on the online representation of any aspect of Middle Eastern cultures, Islam, the imagined "Orient" and the use and impact of the internet in the Middle Ea
st and Islamic countries. Cyberspace transforms the traditional sense of "fieldsite" in anthropology and calls for an approach that transcends disciplinary boundaries.
23/12/2023
The new special double issue of CyberOrient is out!
> https://cyberorient.net/
Postcolonialism, Orientalism, and Video Games
Guest edited by Souvik Mukherjee and Zahra Rizvi
CyberOrient is archived on AnthroSource:
> https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/18043194
Vol. 17, Iss. 1, 2022
Editorial: Postcolonial Play in the Orient’s Sandbox
> Souvik Mukherjee and Zahra Rizvi
“Raji’s Burden”
> Soraya Murray
How Not to Play an Indian Mythic: Raji: A Modern Fantasy
> Arkabrata Chaudhury, Arunoday Chaudhuri
Review: Mukherjee, Souvik. 2022. Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent. Development, Culture(s) and Representations. Bloomsbury
> Xenia Zeiler
Vol. 17, Iss. 2, 2022
Theoretical and Methodological Framework for Studying Video Games and Orientalism
> Vít Šisler
A Psychoanalysis of Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) in the Context of India 2020–2021
> Achintya Debnath
Comment: Living the American Dream: Playlist GTA in the Third World Country
> Animesh Dhara
Review: Liz Przybylski. 2020. Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between. SAGE Publications, Inc.
> Anders Ackfeldt
08/08/2023
Mon 20 Muharram 1445AH 7-8-2023AD Morocco, Sport Morocco Football Graham Cornwell, Washington Post, Morocco’s shocking run at the women’s World Cup is already leaving a mark, 7 August 2023 “To some, it’s almost refreshing that the team is... Continue Reading
14/07/2023
Archiving British Muslim Digital Spaces Leave a Comment / Cyber Islamic Environments, Research / By Laura Jones It is often said colloquially that when something is posted online, it becomes permanent – a fixed record that is always there to be referred back to. This can be seen especially in case...
31/05/2023
Welcome to the official website of the multi-country research project ‘Digital Islam across Europe: Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments’. This ambitious project explores the social and religious impact of Online Islamic Environments (OIEs) on Europe’s diverse ...
16/12/2022
The new issue of CyberOrient is out!
> https://cyberorient.net/
CyberOrient is now archived on AnthroSource.
> https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/18043194
Vol. 16, Iss. 2, 2022
Algerian Youth and the Contestation over Sound on TikTok
> Luca Bruls
Palestinian Youth Engagement with Online Political Contents Shared by Citizen Journalists—The Case of Save Sheikh Jarrah
> Rola Khalid Yousef
Comment: Digital Monitoring as a Threat to Human Mobility
> Mirna Wabi-Sabi
Comment: “All Compressed and Rendered with a Pathetic Delicacy That Astounds the Eye”: Midjourney Renders Ambergris as Constantinople
> Emir Alışık
Review: Brunton, Finn. 2019. Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency. Princeton University Press
> Michaela Slussareff
11/12/2022
https://newlinesmag.com/essays/muslims-in-the-metaverse/
New virtual products like ‘Kaaba glasses’ are raising thorny questions about so-called 'metaworship'
06/12/2022
https://agsiw.org/programs/podcasting-the-middle-east-a-conversation-with-kim-ghattas/
On December 7, AGSIW will host a conversation with Kim Ghattas, host of the new podcast “People Like Us.”
03/11/2022
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q5oqpKx9Qf6YtDBd-rrUSQ
In our world today, any material management project, whether it's documents, photos, heritage items, or sites, needs to include digitization as a fundamental means to attain an effective and secure electronic record system. This involves digital curation, web archiving, information management, acces...
06/10/2022
https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2022/10/6/the-digital-occupation-of-palestine
Essential Middle East examines whether social media companies aid in Israel’s digital occupation of Palestine.
23/09/2022
The new issue of CyberOrient is out!
> https://cyberorient.net/
CyberOrient is now archived on AnthroSource.
> https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/18043194
Vol. 16, Iss. 1, 2022
Good Tidings for Saudi Women? Techno-Orientalism, Gender, and Saudi Politics in Global Media Discourse
> Joel W. Abdelmoez
The Role of the Internet in the Formation of Muslim Subjectivity Among Polish Female Converts to Islam
> Anna Piela, Joanna Krotofil, Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, Beata Abdallah-Krzepkowska
Review: Stein, Rebecca L. 2021. Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine. Stanford University Press
> Omneya Ibrahim
Review: O’Neil, Cathy. 2016. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
> Michaela Slussareff
26/08/2022
https://en.qantara.de/content/saudi-arabia-when-a-tweet-gets-you-34-years-in-prison
The ruling is part of an ongoing clampdown on dissent and minorities in the kingdom. But so far, it's unlikely to have an effect on the kingdom's newly polished image as a global oil provider in times of crisis. Jennifer Holleis reports
02/08/2022
Postcolonialism, Orientalism, and Video Games
Call for Papers
CyberOrient: Journal of the Virtual Middle East and Islamic World
Editor-in-Chief: Daniel M. Varisco
Guest Editors: Souvik Mukherjee and Zahra Rizvi
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2022 (Full Papers)
Aim
Video games have literally become a game-changing medium in global culture since the 1970s and yet the representation of gaming cultures still remains the preserve of the Global North. Although there are very few representations of Asia in games (see Hjorth and Chan 2009, Patterson 2020), South Asia is particularly notable in its absence in games studies’ discourses and the larger allied scholarship on digital culture. In video games, when South Asia is at all represented, it is mainly through the lenses of colonialism and orientalism, thereby often resorting to stereotypes or ‘cybertypes’ (Nakamura 2002) and also eliding the vast diversity of the region. This special issue of CyberOrient follows in the path of earlier research based on the very recent concept of ‘regional games studies’ (Liboriussen and Martin 2016; Phillip Penix-Tadsen 2019), bringing some of the major and critical issues in the gaming cultures of what is arguably one of the most diverse and populated parts of the globe. In doing so, it also plugs into the assemblage of the South-South discourse and the global challenges to colonialism and orientalism in understanding narrative cultures, play-cultures and code.
In the light of the above-mentioned interventions in games research, we welcome submissions on the following topics as well any other related topic connecting South Asia and games:
Orientalism in and as videogames
Oriental pleasures of play
Play as Empire, Playing against the Empire
Postcolonialism and videogames
Imperial utopia/dystopia in games
Navigating South Asia through gameworlds
Debates around caricature vs representation
Gamers, gaming cultures and fandoms in South Asia
Mobile/indie games in South Asia
We welcome submissions from across disciplines and methodological approaches that are empirically and theoretically grounded.
About CyberOrient
CyberOrient (cyberorient.net) is a semi-annual interdisciplinary journal published by the American Anthropological Association, the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies and the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies of Lund University. CyberOrient presents original, peer-reviewed articles, comments and books reviews on the online representation of any aspect of Middle Eastern cultures, Islam, the imagined “Orient” and the use and impact of the internet and new media in the Middle East and Islamic countries.
Submissions
Articles should be submitted directly to Zahra Rizvi ([email protected]), Souvik Mukherjee ([email protected]) and Vit Sisler ([email protected]). Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references), and follow the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Upon acceptance, articles will be published online with free access in 2023.
*Image credit belongs to Studio Oleomingus
Postcolonialism, Orientalism, and Video Games
Call for Papers
CyberOrient: Journal of the Virtual Middle East and Islamic World
Editor-in-Chief: Daniel M. Varisco
Guest Editors: Souvik Mukherjee and Zahra Rizvi
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2022 (Full Papers)
Aim
Video games have literally become a game-changing medium in global culture since the 1970s and yet the representation of gaming cultures still remains the preserve of the Global North. Although there are very few representations of Asia in games (see Hjorth and Chan 2009, Patterson 2020), South Asia is particularly notable in its absence in games studies’ discourses and the larger allied scholarship on digital culture. In video games, when South Asia is at all represented, it is mainly through the lenses of colonialism and orientalism, thereby often resorting to stereotypes or ‘cybertypes’ (Nakamura 2002) and also eliding the vast diversity of the region. This special issue of CyberOrient follows in the path of earlier research based on the very recent concept of ‘regional games studies’ (Liboriussen and Martin 2016; Phillip Penix-Tadsen 2019), bringing some of the major and critical issues in the gaming cultures of what is arguably one of the most diverse and populated parts of the globe. In doing so, it also plugs into the assemblage of the South-South discourse and the global challenges to colonialism and orientalism in understanding narrative cultures, play-cultures and code.
In the light of the above-mentioned interventions in games research, we welcome submissions on the following topics as well any other related topic connecting South Asia and games:
Orientalism in and as videogames
Oriental pleasures of play
Play as Empire, Playing against the Empire
Postcolonialism and videogames
Imperial utopia/dystopia in games
Navigating South Asia through gameworlds
Debates around caricature vs representation
Gamers, gaming cultures and fandoms in South Asia
Mobile/indie games in South Asia
We welcome submissions from across disciplines and methodological approaches that are empirically and theoretically grounded.
About CyberOrient
CyberOrient (cyberorient.net) is a semi-annual interdisciplinary journal published by the American Anthropological Association, the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies and the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies of Lund University. CyberOrient presents original, peer-reviewed articles, comments and books reviews on the online representation of any aspect of Middle Eastern cultures, Islam, the imagined “Orient” and the use and impact of the internet and new media in the Middle East and Islamic countries.
Submissions
Articles should be submitted directly to Zahra Rizvi ([email protected]), Souvik Mukherjee ([email protected]) and Vit Sisler ([email protected]). Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references), and follow the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Upon acceptance, articles will be published online with free access in 2023.
*Image credit belongs to Studio Oleomingus
01/06/2022
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cyber-muslims-9781350233706/
Through an array of detailed case studies, this book explores the vibrant digital expressions of diverse groups of Muslim cybernauts: religious clerics and Sufi…
27/05/2022
Islam, Media and Education in the Digital Era
Edited ByAtie Rachmiatie, Ike Junita Triwardhani, Alhamuddin, Cep Ubad Abdullah
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2022
eBook Published 17 March 2022
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.1201/9781003219149/islam-media-education-digital-era-atie-rachmiatie-ike-junita-triwardhani-alhamuddin-cep-ubad-abdullah?refId=c4bcd564-0211-4717-bcea-5608ca02336a&context=ubx
20/05/2022
https://digitalorientalist.com/2022/04/15/call-for-papers-the-digital-orientalists-virtual-conference-2022-2/
The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022 will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2022. In 2021, we switched from a Twitter conference format to a full-day Zoom event, dedicated to the discussion of digital research methods.
06/05/2022
https://islamiclaw.blog/2022/05/05/fatwas-on-cryptocurrency-egypts-dar-al-iftaʾ/
By Raha Rafii Grand Muftī Shawky Ibrahim Allam of Egypt’s Dār al-Iftāʾ issued a fatwā in December 2017[1] stating that any and all uses of cryptocurrency was ḥarām, or forbidden—including purchasin…
22/04/2022
Call for Papers: Abstract deadline: 1 MayPaper submission deadline: 11 JuneDate of the conference: 25 June Submission form We are pleased to announce that the Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conferen…
08/03/2022
Call for Papers
CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East and Islamic World
Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco
Associate Editors: Vít Šisler, Anders Ackfeldt
Submission deadline: June 1, 2022 (Full Papers)
About CyberOrient
CyberOrient ((http://www.cyberorient.net/)) is a semi-annual interdisciplinary journal published by the American Anthropological Association, the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies and the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies of Lund University. The journal is indexed and archived at AnthroSource.
Aim
CyberOrient presents original, peer-reviewed articles, comments and books reviews on the online representation of any aspect of Middle Eastern cultures, Islam, the imagined “Orient” and the use and impact of the internet and new media in the Middle East and Islamic countries.
Submissions
Articles should be submitted directly to Vit Sisler ([email protected]) and Anders Ackfeldt ([email protected]). Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references), and follow the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style in referencing and citations. Upon acceptance, articles will be published online with free access in Winter 2022. More information can be found at https://cyberorient.net/submissions/
17/02/2022
A new book, The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco: Cultural and Economic Transformations, is out and available at the link below:
rowman.com/ISBN/9781793616586/...
Abstract:
In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane examines how Moroccans use the mobile phone to redefine core notions of gender and space, honor and shame, placemaking, and surveillance and control. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with urban street vendors, urban micro-entrepreneurs, urban female domestic workers, and smallholder farmers in urban and rural Morocco, Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.
Reviews:
Hsain Ilahiane's book is an ethnographic tour de force. Not only does he show us how a complex multitude of forces and activities all converge upon the cell phones Moroccan people hold in their hands, but also how the phones themselves, as 'total social artifacts,' are subjects in their own right. Henceforth, anyone writing about the role of cell phones in social and cultural life will have to take this fascinating, and well-argued, book into account.
- Mark P. Whitaker, University of Kentucky
This vivid and engaging ethnography shows how the mobile phone has profoundly affected almost every aspect of life and work in the urban shantytowns and rural hamlets of Morocco. Playfully written and theoretically inspired, The Mobile Phone Revolution is a pathbreaking contribution to modern Middle East studies, as well as a must-read for those interested in economy, labor, and gender relations in a technological era.
- Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University
Ilahiane brings together a multitude of brilliant observations about the impact of the mobile phone within a text that can be read profitably by grads and undergrads in the social sciences as well as by anyone interested in the impact of modern technology in the Islamic world. The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco is as original and insightful as it is concise and will astonish and delight the reader. The light but deft theoretical touches will help readers understand the ways in which the examples may be generalized to other areas of the world.
- Thomas K. Park, University of Arizona
In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.
12/01/2022
The new issue of CyberOrient is out!
> https://cyberorient.net/
CyberOrient is now archived on AnthroSource.
> https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/18043194
Vol. 15, Iss. 2, 2021
Facebook as Embodiment of Social Relations and Piety among American Muslim Women
Ashley Hahn
From Deception to Inception: Social Media and the Changing Function of Fake News (Lessons from Egypt 2013)
Hesham Shafick
Censorship in the Study of Early Islam
Philip Wood
Review: Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World ; Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East
Leif Stenberg
Review: Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation
Anders Ackfeldt
31/12/2021
"For those Afghan students who can afford the Internet at home—especially women and girls, whom the regime has officially banned from secondary and higher education—online learning has become one of the primary sources of education."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/30/1043133/afghanistan-coding-bootcamp
In Afghanistan, tech entrepreneurship was once promoted as an element of peace-building. Now, young coders wonder whether to stay or go.
17/12/2021
UNESCO has added Arabic calligraphy to its Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/unesco-arabic-calligraphy-1234613597/
UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list is a stunning sample of the world’s cultural diversity and ingenuity.
01/11/2021
https://agsiw.org/gulf-institutions-virtual-efforts-transform-and-amplify-art-experience/
What does the rise of online art experiences in the Gulf mean for the future of art in the region?
18/08/2021
07/08/2021
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1905026/middle-east
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, on Tuesday, called on religious scholars in the country to confront electronic platforms spreading false ideas that distort the essence of Islam and exploit religion to achieve political goals through acts of terrorism. Presidential Spokesman Bassam Ra...
09/07/2021
Social media make many things possible – including the unwanted circulation of intimate private photos. This has given rise to new forms of crime and sexual blackmail. An initiative in Egypt is assisting victims. Ihad Zidan reports from Cairo
01/07/2021
A new special issue of CyberOrient on Ambivalence, Discontent, and Divides in Southeast Asia’s Islamic Digital Realms is out!
https://cyberorient.net/
Edited by Martin Slama and James Bourk Hoesterey, the special issue discusses the latest transformations in the field of Islam in Southeast Asia with a particular focus on digital media.
04/06/2021
A new thesis on online dissent in Saudi Arabia...
https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/thesis-prize?admin_panel=1&login=1
2021 Thesis Prize Winners Announcement May 26, 2021 After reviewing many outstanding undergraduate theses and Ph.D. dissertations, the Selection Committee has chosen the following winners: Undergraduate Thesis Prize
27/05/2021
1.7.21 11.00-19.00 The event will explore ethical, media, digital and religious responses to the COVID-19 situation in diverse Islamic contexts.
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