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Inside the Islamic State’s Media: Eine kollaborative Videoanalyse
2020
Dieser Beitrag widmet sich der multiperspektivischen Analyse des IS-Videos Inside the Khilafah 8. Das dialogische Gruppengesprach verdeutlicht den kollaborativen und iterativen Prozess der Beschreibung und Deutung. Nach einer Einordnung des Videos in die Medienproduktion des IS und in den Kontext der Inside-Reihe werden die drei wichtigsten Themenblocke des Videos fokussiert: die Gleichsetzung von Medienarbeit mit Jihad, die Legitimation der eigenen Autoritat des IS durch die Einteilung von Handlungen in ‚gut‘ und ‚schlecht‘ und die Bedeutung der Social-Media-Kontexte fur die Verbreitung und Aneignung von Videos. Die unterschiedlichen fachlichen und analytischen Zugange aus Islamwissenschaf…
Challenges in Digital Ethnography
2020
Abstract The article explores ethical challenges in digital media ethnography in the field of militant political Islam, pointing to the dilemma that arises in doing research on Islam as part of the securitised research funding system. Expanding on discussions in anthropology about the principles of “do no harm” and “be open and honest about your work”, the authors reflectively contextualise the interrelated notions of “Jihadism” and “Salafism” and examine how these categories serve as “floating signifiers”. Examining one particular incident from the digital fieldwork leads to discussions of transparency, anonymity and shifting forms of “publicness” in the digital sphere.
Expanding the Family Frame: Social Specialists, Mediated Experiences, and Gendered Images of Mobility in Transnational Wedding Videos
2021
This contribution explores the role of wedding videos in shaping transnational social relationships. Examining the production and aesthetic means of these ‘mobile images of mobility’, I show how videographers serve as ritual and social specialists to bring to the fore a fictionalized, imagined place of transnational social relationships. As evidence of ‘memory objects’ for life events, these videos form the basis for mediated experiences in transnational settings, relating those depicted to those engaging in and those watching the videos. They all become part of the social relationships that are inscribed in the video. Yet this imaginary filmic space creates gendered, contested spaces of mo…