2020/05/06 by Rosa Scardigno, Giuseppe Mininni
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Blogosphere #Closeness #Computer science #Dialectic #Digital Marketing and Social Media #Epistemology #Feeling #Literature #Media studies #Media, Religion, Digital Communication #Narrative #Openness to experience #Psychology #Relation (database) #Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining #Social psychology #Sociology #The Internet #World Wide Web
paper · doi:10.1177/0084672420917451
crossref issued 2020/05/06 · crossref published 2020/05/06 · crossref published-online 2020/05/06 · openalex publication_date 2020/05/06 · crossref created 2020/05/06 · openalex created_date 2020/05/13 · crossref published-print 2020/07/01 · crossref deposited 2026/05/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21 · crossref indexed 2026/07/29
As the “Sacred Place”—meant as the new space for religions offered by the Internet—demands for continuous investigations on the encounter between traditional narratives and social practices, the rapid growth of Question and Answering websites asks for improving social research about the Authenticity of the religious feeling as well as their responsibility in the construction of a shared knowledge. In this background, the aim of this study is to investigate the role of Q&A websites as additional interpretative resources in accordance with different religious forms of life. About 800 extracts—composed by questions and answers—from the religious pages of Stack Exchange were analyzed, in accordance with social discursive psychology, through bottom-up and top-down pathways. In relation to the different emerging questioners’ profiles, the rhetoric of “closeness” and “openness” reveal a dialectic trend of these websites in offering both supplementary and extending religious experiences.