HEИндивидуална стипендия2023–2026

MERGE · Media, religion, and gender: transnational digital media actions of progressive and conservative social movements

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-12-01 → 2026-11-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 288 859 €
Участници: 4
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF

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Накратко на български

Дигиталната комуникация на международни католически движения разглежда как се обсъждат теми като правата на LGBTQ+ общността и сексуалното образование. Това помага да се разбере как социалните мрежи влияят върху общественото мнение по въпросите на религията и пола.

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MERGE- Media, religion, and gender: transnational digital media actions of progressive and conservative social movements

The project MERGE looks at how transnational Catholic social movements use digital communication to discuss gender-related issues. The project is highly relevant for several reasons: first, it assesses the role of digital media for the spreading of narratives that can impact public opinion about religion and gender; second, it considers religion as a fundamental identity character for transnational social movements; third, it discusses gender as a contested site of political and social actions regarding issues such as abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, sex education. The project has three main objectives: - Identifying which discourses around gender and religion are more likely to develop transnationally and as part of global networks of actors - Comparing and contrasting movements that are on the conservative or progressive end of the political spectrum, showing how some themes and ideas can pertain to opposite ideologies - Discussing the affordances of digital media when it comes to activist strategies of transnational social movements connected to religion and gender The project is innovative both in theoretical and methodological terms. Theoretically, it puts into conversation literature in digital religion studies, gender studies, and social movement studies, something that has seldom been done before. Methodologically, the project combines various social sciences and digital humanities approaches, employing computational methods to collect big datasets from social media and analyze them qualitatively and quantitatively, and pairing them with interviews and observations.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The project explores how conservative and progressive Catholic-inspired social movements employ social media transnationally to discussgender. It is original, first, in analyzing the heterogeneity of Catholicism in supporting or opposing gender equality; second, in focusing on relevant social issues such as reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ rights; third, in exploring social media use within transnational Catholic activism, often overlooked by existing literature. The fellow will focus on two case studies: 1) Conservative Catholic anti-gender movements that oppose LGBTQ+ rights and feminism 2) Progressive movements within the Catholic Church that advocate for the inclusion of women and LGBTQ+ people. The cases are based on the European and North American context. Hence, the fellow will work in the following institutions: for the outgoing phase, the University of Colorado, U.S., under the supervision of Professor Stewart Hoover, who leads a world-renown center for the study of religion and media, and is an expert in gender; for the return phase, the University of Bologna, Italy, under the supervision of Professor Alice Mattoni, who has expertise in transnational social movements and digital media, research ethics, and grant writing. In the two institutions, the fellow will acquire the skills to address these objectives: 1) Explore transnational social media narratives of Catholic movements through big data analysis, a skill acquired in training in both host institutions 2) Compare the online discourses of progressive and conservative Catholic groups through qualitative analysis, helped by the supervisor’s expertise in software for textual analysis 3) Research Catholic actors’ online and offline strategies through interviews and participant observation, a method honed during a secondment at the University of Pittsburgh. The project will produce results useful for the scientific and social understanding of social media use, contemporary religion, and gender equality

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · BolognaКоординаторИталия
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · Boulder CoСъединени щати
UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL FUNDACIO · BARCELONAИспания
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH · PittsburghСъединени щати