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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · 5d

📢 @garyrbunt.bsky.social, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (UK team), Dorota Wójciak (Poland team), Berta Güell (Spain team) and Egdūnas Račius (Lithuania team) presented findings from our @digitislam.bsky.social project at the EU Commission in Brussels on October 3, 2025.The event was a success.

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · 8d

📢 @garyrbunt.bsky.social, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (UK team), Dorota Wójciak (Poland team), Berta Güell (Spain team) and Egdūnas Račius (Lithuania team) will be presenting findings from our CHANSE @digitislam.bsky.social project at the EU Commission in Brussels on October 3, 2025.

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · 27d

More on this event on our website: blogs.ed.ac.uk/digitalislam...

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · 27d

Egūnas Račius and Arvydas Kumpis of the Lithuanian team were interviewed by Lithuanian news portal Kas vyksta Kaune. They discussed the digitislam.bsky.social project and other related topics. Article can be found here: kaunas.kasvyksta.lt/2025/09/09/l...

Islamas Lietuvoje: mokslininkai atskleidžia, ką apie musulmonus galvoja lietuviai

Nors Lietuvoje islamo istorija siekia šimtmečius, Lietuvos visuomenė apie musulmonus ir jų gyvenimo būdą žino pakankamai nedaug. Tarptautiniame projekte tiriančiame skaitmenį islamą dalyvaujantys Vyta...

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Sep 3

Members of the @digitislam.bsky.social team will be attending the @euchanse.bsky.social Final Conference in Kraków, Poland sharing some of our projects’ initial results as well as exchanging ideas with the other participating projects. Programme can be found here: chanse.org/chanse-final...

CHANSE Final Conference

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Jul 24

Longer analysis of this collection can be found here: tinyurl.com/reactionsPop...

Reactions to Pope Francis’ passing – DIGITAL ISLAM ACROSS EUROPE

Reactions to Pope Francis’ passing collection – DIGITAL ISLAM ACROSS EUROPE

Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Jun 27

The @digitislam.bsky.social @euchanse.bsky.social team has uploaded a new current events collection focusing on reactions to Pope Francis' death from Muslim actors, organisations and media in our respective countries (tinyurl.com/reactionspop...)

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Jun 3

The @digitislam.bsky.social @euchanse.bsky.social project conference was a great success! We built teamwork, shared findings, and got valuable feedback. Big thanks to our guest speakers for their great insights. More photos on our website: shorturl.at/ub8Vh (📷: Tom Lea & Yvonne Howard-Bunt)

Digital religion: Avsnitt 8: Islam i digital rum

Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · May 12

Dorota Wójciak of the @digitislam.bsky.social @euchanse.bsky.social Polish team has published a blog post on the initial results of monitoring Polish online media coverage of women and Islam between May 1 and October 31, 2024. Read the article here: tinyurl.com/WomenIslamOn...

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · May 6

@digitislam.bsky.social @euchanse.bsky.social Sweden team participated in a Podcast on Digital Religion discussing their findings from the project. Podcast episode (in Swedish) can be found here: sites.libsyn.com/551442/digit...

    I detta avsnitt pratar vi om forskning kring muslimer och sociala medier. Men också om spridning av islamofobi online och muslimers utsatthet i digitala miljöer.   Gäster...

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · May 1

📢 @digitislam.bsky.social @euchanse.bsky.social project conference will take place 27&28 May at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Featuring presentations from the team alongside European scholars working on similar topics. Check out our programme and registration links: llc.ed.ac.uk/digital-isla...

Conference: Digital Islam Across Europe (27 & 28 May 2025, University of Edinburgh)

Join us in Edinburgh to reflect, and expand, on the insights and implications of the 'Digital Islam across Europe: Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments' research project...

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Between the occult and the evident: The OAR launches a workshop to reflect on spirituality in the digital age | Religious Affairs Office | Barcelona City Council

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Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social · Mar 19

I attended the ‘Digital religions: Technological and spiritual transformations’ conference in Barcelona last month on behalf of @digitislam.bsky.social. The conference report is below (there are also versions in Catalan and Spanish).

On 13 and 14 February, the Pati Llimona Civic Centre hosted the workshop entitled ‘Digital religions: Technological and spiritual transformations’, which opened with two academic lectures and then fea...

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Feb 4

@garyrbunt.bsky.social of the UK team will deliver one of the keynote speeches. Rosa Martinez Cuadros, Berta Güell and Zouhair El Hairan of the Spanish Team will also be presenting and moderating discussions.

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Feb 4

Avi Astor of the @digitislam.bsky.social project team will host a conference on “Digital Religions: Technological and Spiritual Transformations” with the BCN Religious Affairs Office and ISOR research group in Barcelona on 13-14 February 2025. Program here: media-edg.barcelona.cat/wp-content/u...

IIPC RSS Webinar: Scholarship with Web Archive Collection Data - IIPC

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Anna Grasso @annagrasso.bsky.social · Jan 21

I have been invited to present @digitislam.bsky.social archives and data visualisation methods at the IIPC RSS Webinar “Scholarship with Web Archive Collection Data” alongside other researchers on February 26th. More information & registration here: netpreserve.org/event/iipc-r...

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Sharing Ramadan: online and offline initiatives – DIGITAL ISLAM ACROSS EUROPE

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Anna Grasso @annagrasso.bsky.social · Jan 7

Looking forward to presenting some of our @digitislam.bsky.social UK team results at the 'Muslim Converts in Britain and Beyond: Transitions and Transformations' conference organised by Islam-UK Centre and Muslims in Britain Research Network. Programme available here: mbrn.org/wp-content/u...

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Dec 18

@annagrasso.bsky.social Dorota Wójciak and @garyrbunt.bsky.social from @digitislam.bsky.social team uploaded an article (tinyurl.com/SharingRamadan) on the topic of “Sharing Ramadan” online and offline.

Anonymity and Digital Islamic Authority

Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Dec 10

New publication by Avi Astor, Ghufran Khir-Allah and Rosa Martinez-Cuadros from the @digitislam.bsky.social Spanish Team “Anonymity and Digital Islamic Authority” @Religions_MDPI: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15...

Much of the literature on digital religious authority has focused on spiritual “influencers” and the challenges they pose to traditional religious hierarchies and structures of authority. Less attenti...

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Dec 4

The @digitislam.bsky.social team has uploaded a new article (tinyurl.com/deceased-inf...) and accompanying collection (tinyurl.com/UK-deceased-...) on the topic of the online portrayal and legacy of deceased influential figures.

The Online Portrayal and Legacy of Deceased Influential Figures – DIGITAL ISLAM ACROSS EUROPE

Digital scholarship and the web: Learning from Muslim communities online

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Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social · Nov 19

As I continue introducing myself to Bluesky, here's an article on my ongoing research (with colleagues @annagrasso.bsky.social and Alamgir Ahmed), published by the Archive-it Blog back in May.

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by the Archiving & Data Services team This post was written with scholars using ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub) and Archive-It to study the role of online environments in Muslim <i>...</i>

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Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Nov 14

The project is funded by the Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe (CHANSE chanse.org/digitislam/) and involves research teams working across five European countries: the UK, Poland, Sweden, Spain and Lithuania. #Digital #Religion #Humanities #socialsciences

DIGITISLAM: Digital Islam across Europe: Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments

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DIGITAL ISLAM ACROSS EUROPE – Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments

Digital Islam Across Europe @digitislam.bsky.social · Nov 14

Digital Islam Across Europe (DIGITISLAM) is a multi-country research project analysing how Online Islamic Environments (OIE) shape Muslims' social and religious practices in diverse European contexts. Check our website: blogs.ed.ac.uk/digitalislam...

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