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Bloggers and religious authority online

TitleBloggers and religious authority online
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsCampbell, H
JournalJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Volume15
Issue2
Start Page251
Pagination251-266
KeywordsAuthority, blogs, religion, religious authority
Abstract

It is often argued that the internet poses a threat to traditional forms of authority. Within studies of religion online claims have also been made that the internet is affecting religious authority online, but little substantive work has backed up these claims. This paper argues for an approach to authority within online studies which looks separately at authority: roles, structures, beliefs/ideologies and texts. This approach is applied to a thematic analysis of 100 religious blogs and demonstrates that religious bloggers use their blogs to frame authority in ways that may more often affirm than challenge traditional sources of authority.

URLhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2010.01519.x/full