Arab Religious Skeptics Online: Anonymity, Autonomy, and Discourse in a Hostile Environment

Sharing core norms and values
Jun 10, 2015 | Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Helmi Noman

The Arab atheist community is largely an online phenomenon, with limited visibility offline and virtually no umbrella groups. It exists in unfriendly, if not hostile, political, social, religious, and legal environments. In this paper for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Helmi Noman examines the relationship between the networked information economy and the emergence of religious skeptics evident in Arab cyberspace, focusing on the potential and limitations of anonymous and pseudonymous speech online, and the extent to which this facilitates or hinders sharing, debating, community building, and collective action.
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