Digital contestation in protracted conflict: The online struggle over al-Aqsa Mosque

Vries, Maya de; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Alyan, Eman; Ma’oz, Moshe; Maoz, Ifat

doi:10.1080/10714421.2017.1362814

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“…Although not directly tested vis-à-vis an authoritative communicator, findings provide evidence that lay group members have a significant role in shaping beliefs and opinions of those enmeshed in prolonged conflicts. These findings are in line with recent research that points to the significant impact of lay opinions distributed on social media (De Vries et al, 2017; John and Dvir-Gvirsman, 2015; Mor et al, 2016).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

The Pivotal Role of the Enemy in Inducing Hope for Peace

Leshem

2018

Political Studies

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Protracted conflicts are also termed “intractable” in part because they are perceived as irresolvable by those mired in the prolonged dispute. The conflict’s perceived irreconcilability leaves little reason for citizens to strive for peace which, in turn, might further exacerbate the conflict. The central question posed in this study is whether hopelessness regarding the possibility for peace can be alleviated among citizens embroiled in protracted conflicts. Results from an experimental study administered in Israel show that hope can be instilled, even among those most skeptical, when an outgroup member claims that peace is possible but not when an ingroup member claims the same. A follow-up study revealed that hope induced by the experimental interventions withstood a period of conflict escalation and elicited active support for peacebuilding. The study demonstrates that hope inducement is a useful tool for carving a pathway out of detrimental structures of intractability.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

The Pivotal Role of the Enemy in Inducing Hope for Peace

Leshem

2018

Political Studies

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“…From the scant existing literature it appears that holy places do not occupy a main place in the daily coverage of the media. The study shows that holy places do make headlines in two main contexts: first, when religious events such as festivals are held; and second, when conflicts arise about them, and even more so when acts of violence take place (de Vries et al, 2017). In both cases, the framing of the holy places tends to be mostly episodic , that is, mainly focus on the acts of violence themselves and the people involved in them, and much less thematic (i.e., including references to the history of the place, the background of the conflict, the positions of the different players, etc.)…”

Section: Holy Places In the Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dormant Volcano: Social Media and the Temple Mount, Jerusalem

Cohen

Lev‐On

2022

Social Media + Society

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Social media have become primary venues for pubic conversations, but we know very little about how and where holy places are discussed in social media and who participates in these conversations. To address these questions, we look at the Temple Mount, one of the most significant places to the three ancient monotheistic religions, which is of great importance in political, national, and other contexts. The research question is twofold: In what contexts are discussions taking place in the Hebrew Facebook-sphere around the Temple Mount? And, what are the leading social media venues where the Temple Mount is discussed? Data collection took place in 2017, when Israel celebrated 50 years since capturing the mount, and experienced a major security event—the “metal detector crisis,” followed by major clashes between Jews and Palestinians. We found that the Temple Mount is portrayed prominently in three contexts: national, religious, and security and that “ ordinary” social media interest in it is limited to groups of mostly nationalist and religious Jews who demand prayer rights on the mount and rarely cross to become an issue for the broader Israeli social media public until a major security development initiates an “ extraordinary” discourse involving many more individuals and groups. In one sense, the discourse about the Temple Mount is reminiscent of a “dormant volcano” that does not erupt regularly, but when it does, no one knows how the eruption will end. Lessons for the representation of holy places in social media are discussed.

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“…Furthermore, as observed in places such as Mardin, Turkey, social media reflects the strategies of political "silence" already developed offline (Miller et al, 2016). Hence, when the online context correlates with the offline one-in terms of political and sociological power relations-communicative actions may become non-communicative ones, thus limiting Facebook as a platform for social or political change (de Vries et al, 2015(de Vries et al, , 2017Nemer, 2016). Where the above theme shows how interviewees perceive the state as a dominant actor in the online sphere, the second theme demonstrates another aspect of online control that comes from the interviewees' families.…”

Section: State Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Voice of Silence: Patterns of Digital Participation Among Palestinian Women in East Jerusalem

Vries

Majlaton

2021

MaC

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Facebook is one of the world’s largest social networks, with more than 2,7 billion active users globally. It is also one of the most dominant platforms and one of the platforms most commonly used by Arabs. However, connecting via Facebook and sharing content cannot be taken for granted. While many studies have focused on the role played by networked platforms in empowering women in the Arab world in general and on feminist movements in the Arab Spring, few have explored Palestinian women’s use of Facebook. During and after the Arab Spring, social media was used as a tool for freedom of expression in the Arab world. However, Palestinians in East Jerusalem using social media witnessed a decrease in freedom of expression, especially after the Gaza war in 2014. This article focuses on the Facebook usage patterns and political participation of young adult Palestinian women living in the contested space of East Jerusalem. These women live under dynamic power struggles as they belong to a traditionally conservative society, live within a situation of intractable conflict, and are under state control as a minority group. Qualitative thematic analysis of 13 in-depth interviews reveals three patterns of usage, all related to monitoring: state monitoring, kinship monitoring, and self-monitoring. The article conceptualises these online behaviours as “participation avoidance,” a term describing users’ (non-)communicative practices in which the mundane choices of when, why, and how to <em>participate </em>also mirror users’ choices of when, why, and how to <em>avoid</em>.

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Digital contestation in protracted conflict: The online struggle over al-Aqsa Mosque

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

The Pivotal Role of the Enemy in Inducing Hope for Peace

The Pivotal Role of the Enemy in Inducing Hope for Peace

The Dormant Volcano: Social Media and the Temple Mount, Jerusalem

The Voice of Silence: Patterns of Digital Participation Among Palestinian Women in East Jerusalem

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