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Hilltop Youth and New Media: The Formation of a Young Religious Digital-Resistance Community.
- Source :
- Religions; Mar2023, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p411, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- "Hilltop youth" is the name for young religious Jewish people in Israel who, separated from their families, are living in illegal outposts on hilltops throughout Judea and Samaria. The group's unique religious, sociological, and ideological characteristics differentiate them from other religious communities previously studied in relation to digital culture. In this study, we offer a new angle that provides insight into the hilltop youth's religious–ideological perception while focusing on their attitude toward new media, smartphones, and social networks, in particular, an attitude that is part of their self-definition as a separatist community. The findings present and discuss the different layers represented within the hilltop youth's media resistance and how this media-negating ideological position shapes the group's perception as a religious community that is a counterculture to religious and social sectors in Israel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RELIGIOUS communities
SOCIAL networks
COMMUNITIES
JEWS
COUNTERCULTURE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20771444
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Religions
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 162817102
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14030411