“No More Apologies”: Violence as a Trigger for Public Controversy over Islam in the Digital Public Sphere

This article investigates how violence associated with religion, here namely Islam, functions as a trigger for public controversy in the Turku stabbings that took place in Finland in 2017. We begin by outlining the Lyotard-Habermas debate on controversy and compound this with current research on the...

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Authors: Sumiala, Johanna 1971- (Author) ; Harju, Anu A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2019
In: Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 132-152
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Turku / Assassination attempt / Geschichte 2017 / Twitter (Softwareplattform) / Islam / Violence / Controversy / Publicity
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B digital public sphere
B Islam
B cartography of controversies
B Twitter
B terrorist violence
B public controversy
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