39. Negotiating Identity in Democratic Society The Internet and The New Public Sphere of Salafi-Niqabi Women

DOI

10.2991/icosaps-18.2018.39How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Salafi-niqabi, negotiation, online-offline public sphere, salafi manhaj

Abstract

The discovery of the internet has significantly changed the way people live the life in the contemporary world. People are increasingly easy to connect and build a network with the outside world that they have never seen before. The Internet is also used for a variety of needs, from searching and disseminating information, to the need for market promotion and expressing their personal life. The internet has been also argued in the course of enhancing the democratic nature of the world as it facilitates people to be having more freedom to talk and express. This also applies to Salafi-Niqabi women who have been known to be very close to the outside world. The internet has changed their previous ways of life that is very restrictive, closed to the outside world and always seen as the voiceless group. This paper analyzes the internet usage of young Salafi-Niqabi women in Surakarta and their negotiation with their strict salafi manhaj in their everyday life. Using narrative inquiry approach by applying in-depth interview and participative observation method, this paper discovers that while salafi manhaj requires them to strictly limit their appearance in the public space, the online space has created an alternative space to facilitate them to exist beyond their offline world

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuyun Sunest
AU  - Noorhaidi Hasan
AU  - Muhammad Azca
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - 39. Negotiating Identity in Democratic Society The Internet and The New Public Sphere of Salafi-Niqabi Women
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (IcoSaPS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 192
EP  - 197
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosaps-18.2018.39
DO  - 10.2991/icosaps-18.2018.39
ID  - Sunest2018/08
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