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Naseem examines the potential of blogosphere for peace education. He articulates social media such as blogosphere as the new “town”, a gathering space where ideas with the potential for change are aggregated and then transported to individual, local, national and communal contexts where their application can initiate change. Using a case study of the Pakistani blogosphere he argues that in in-crisis societies like Pakistan, the blogosphere is a space where conversations on issues that are crucial to societal regeneration are taking place. He demonstrates that these multilogues in the blogosphere are democratic and inclusive in that they are not confined by the traditional articulations of “expertise”, privilege and subject positioning, nor are they are privileged by credentials or their positioning in the “knowledge” hierarchy.
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Based on research carried out as Georg Arnhold Visiting Research Professor at the Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Germany during summer 2013 and 2014. An earlier, abridged version of this paper appears as an article in Fall 2015 issue of Journal of Education in Muslim Society. I acknowledge the permission of the editors to use parts the paper in this chapter.
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Hijab normally refers to the head covering used by Muslim women. From one society to another the form of covering varies from an absolute shroud (Burqa) to a large stole that covers the entire body (Chador) to a scarf that covers the head (Dupatta) and/or face (Niqab).
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Although there are different and contending views about the separation between online and offline realities I believe that while both intersect and influence each other, online environments are unique in terms of how identities are performed by the ‘digital’ subjects and thus should, at least for the time being, treated separately.
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Naseem, M.A. (2020). The Peace Educational Potential of Social Media: Multilogues of National Self-Regeneration in the Pakistani Blogosphere. In: Naseem, M.A., Arshad-Ayaz, A. (eds) Social Media as a Space for Peace Education. Palgrave Studies in Educational Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50949-1_8
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