Digital Islam Across Europe

New publication by Karolina Smołucha of the @digitislam.bsky.social Polish team in Kultura i Społeczeństwo [Culture and Society] entitled: "Troubled Belonging in Offline and Online Spaces: The Case of Polish Muslims". Article (in English) can be found here: czasopisma.isppan.waw.pl/kis/article/...

UWTSD academic presents 'Digital Islam across Europe' project at the European Commission Ymwelodd yr Athro Gary R. Bunt, o Brifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant (UWTSD), â'r Comisiwn Ewropeaidd yn ddiweddar lle gwnaeth gyflwyniad ar y prosiect Islam Digidol Ar Draws Ewrop a'i ymchwil arall.

News about the @digitislam.bsky.social presentation at the European Commission by @uwtsd.bsky.social featuring @garyrbunt.bsky.social and colleagues can be found here in English: uwtsd.ac.uk/news/uwtsd-a... and Welsh: www.uwtsd.ac.uk/cy/news/acad...

Iremam | Enquêter sur l'Islam digital - Séminaire avec Anna GRASSO Photo : Wordcloud généré avec l'outil de visualisation Voyant Tools, représentant les termes les plus fréquents sur le site web du projet Digital Islam Across Europe.

Looking forward to presenting our project @digitislam.bsky.social at the IREMAM research lab in Aix-en-Provence next Tuesday, October 14, from 14:00 to 16:00 CET. The presentation (in French) can be followed on Zoom. iremam.mmsh.fr/fr/enqueter-...

📢 @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.

📢 @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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...)

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)

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...

Digital religion: Avsnitt 8: Islam i digital rum     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...

@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...

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...

📢 @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...

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 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...

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).

@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.

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...

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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...

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...

@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 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...

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...

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.

Digital scholarship and the web: Learning from Muslim communities online 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>

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.

archive-it.org/post/learnin...

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

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

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...