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  • Empowering the religious minority: examining the mobilizing role of social media for online political participation in an Asian democracy

    • Authors: Saifuddin Ahmed; Muhammad Masood; Yifei Wang (2024)

  • Most current studies examining the mobilizing or reinforcing role of social media for political participation focus on gender and socioeconomic stratifications and are based in Western democratic societies. Attention to religious status as a form of social stratification concerning social media use for political participation, more so in non-Western settings, is nearly absent. This study, through survey data from India, investigates the roles of political interest, social media news use, and religious status in explaining online political participation gaps. Results show that individuals with higher political interest and frequent social media news use are likelier to engage in online...
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  • Facebook interfaith contact and social distance toward religious minorities

    • Authors: Muhammad Masood (2024)

  • In line with the contact hypothesis, several studies show that digitally mediated interfaith contact on social networking sites also improves relationships between members of different faiths. Yet most theoretical and empirical scholarships are mainly conducted in societies generally free of religiously driven violent incidents, lacking insights from contexts with more serious interfaith challenges. Additionally, factors that predict digitally mediated interfaith contact and condition its effect have not gained enough attention. Relying on survey data of Facebook users in Pakistan (n = 645), this study shows that Muslims’ favorable attitude toward potential Facebook interfaith contact...