Navigating Identity, Belonging and Power in Cyberspace

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This book explores how young Muslims in the Anglophone West navigate faith, identity, and belonging through digital media. Drawing on 122 in-depth interviews across Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, it shows how online spaces shape religious, social, and political life. Muslim youth use social platforms to share modest fashion practices, build friendships, join virtual Qur’an circles, and engage in hashtag activism—while also confronting Islamophobia, surveillance, disinformation, and algorithmic bias. Blending insights from digital religion, media studies, political communication, and sociology, the book applies concepts such as networked publics, participatory culture, and third space to examine authority, visibility, and resistance. It reveals how young Muslims create hybrid identities, practice digital citizenship, and foster resilience, offering a fresh perspective on how technology, culture, and religion intersect. This timely study speaks to readers interested in youth culture, religion, digital politics, and twenty-first-century social change.

Ihsan Yilmaz is research chair and professor of political science and international relations at Deakin University’s Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Previously, he worked at the Universities of Oxford and London. He researches on digital politics, digital technologies and authoritarianism, populism, civilisationalism, transnationalism, Muslim diasporas, nation-building, citizenship, securitisation, and intergroup emotions. Presently, he leads two Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery projects: “Civilisationist Mobilisation, Digital Technologies, and Social Cohesion: The Case of Turkish & Indian Diasporas in Australia” and “Religious Populism, Emotions, and Political Mobilisation: Civilisationism in Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan.” Additionally, he co-leads a 3-year Gerda Henkel Foundation project: “Smart Digital Technologies and the Future of Democracy in the Muslim World.”

This book explores how young Muslims in the Anglophone West navigate faith, identity, and belonging through digital media. Drawing on 122 in-depth interviews across Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, it shows how online spaces shape religious, social, and political life. Muslim youth use social platforms to share modest fashion practices, build friendships, join virtual Qur’an circles, and engage in hashtag activism—while also confronting Islamophobia, surveillance, disinformation, and algorithmic bias. Blending insights from digital religion, media studies, political communication, and sociology, the book applies concepts such as networked publics, participatory culture, and third space to examine authority, visibility, and resistance. It reveals how young Muslims create hybrid identities, practice digital citizenship, and foster resilience, offering a fresh perspective on how technology, culture, and religion intersect. This timely study speaks to readers interested in youth culture, religion, digital politics, and twenty-first-century social change.

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Accessing Cyberspace for Political Information Accessing Internet for Religious fundamental texts Social Media and Muslim Identity Cyberspace and Digital Technologies Islamophobia in Digital Spaces Misinformation and unauthorized content Muslims in the West Trust and Mistrust in Online Spaces Muslim Identity Online Digital Advocacy for Muslim Rights Global Muslim Networks Online Transnational Muslim Communities Muslim Communities in the Anglosphere

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