Digital Religious Communication and the Facilitation of Social Resilience: Part 2: Empirical Test of the Theoretical Model. A Study of the Twitter Activity of Ecumenical and Social Justice-Oriented Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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in: Journal of Religious and Theological Information, Jahrgang 23, Nr. 1-2, 2024, S. 28-46.
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T1 - Digital Religious Communication and the Facilitation of Social Resilience
T2 - Part 2: Empirical Test of the Theoretical Model. A Study of the Twitter Activity of Ecumenical and Social Justice-Oriented Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic
AU - Fröh, Johannes
AU - Robinson, Matthew Ryan
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - As societies have sought to adapt to the (post-)pandemic realities, one of the most profound and far-reaching consequences has been a society-wide acceleration of the turn toward the digital. Following a crucial link between social media communication and resilience, the article (1) aims to investigate how “digital religious communication” on social media can be used to measure and assess ecclesial organizations’ social resilience. In a second step, the Twitter communication of 126 ecumenical and social justice-oriented organizations is then analyzed for how much they communicated about the pandemic during the early phases, for the sentiment of their communication, and for religious semantics and narratives used to address the pandemic. In doing so, the study (2) inquires after the role of communicating religious self-understandings in navigating the pandemic, deepening thereby understanding of the connection between “digital religious communication” and the facilitation of social resilience in the face of crisis.
AB - As societies have sought to adapt to the (post-)pandemic realities, one of the most profound and far-reaching consequences has been a society-wide acceleration of the turn toward the digital. Following a crucial link between social media communication and resilience, the article (1) aims to investigate how “digital religious communication” on social media can be used to measure and assess ecclesial organizations’ social resilience. In a second step, the Twitter communication of 126 ecumenical and social justice-oriented organizations is then analyzed for how much they communicated about the pandemic during the early phases, for the sentiment of their communication, and for religious semantics and narratives used to address the pandemic. In doing so, the study (2) inquires after the role of communicating religious self-understandings in navigating the pandemic, deepening thereby understanding of the connection between “digital religious communication” and the facilitation of social resilience in the face of crisis.
KW - diaconic
KW - Digital religion
KW - ecumenical
KW - religious communication
KW - social justice
KW - social media
KW - social resilience
KW - Twitter
KW - Engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85165507528&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10477845.2023.2233875
DO - 10.1080/10477845.2023.2233875
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85165507528
VL - 23
SP - 28
EP - 46
JO - Journal of Religious and Theological Information
JF - Journal of Religious and Theological Information
SN - 1047-7845
IS - 1-2
ER -