THE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT OF MUSLIM’S IDENTITY THROUGH BIG DATA AND INFORMATION OVERLOAD IN THE NEW MEDIA
Kepentingan Kesan Perubahan Identiti Orang Muslim Yang Dilihat Melalui Data Besar Dan Lebihan Maklumat di Media Baharu
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https://doi.org/10.33102/abqari.vol12no1.48Keywords:
Islam, Muslim, al-Qaeda, ISIS, social media, Muslim identity, technology, terrorismAbstract
Technological advancement has changed the way of how communication process is being carried out. With the existence of social media, the messages can be spread easily within seconds via social media. Islam and Muslim issue has been debated long time ago, in which not everyone is willingly to accept Islam. However, technology and social media have served advantages and disadvantages of the Muslim identity. 9/11 attack has shown that Muslim is portrayed as a terrorist in which the semantic of terrorism is always connotated to Islam and the believer. In 2001, the new media is not fully utilized, nevertheless it is still impactful in generating prejudice in the non-Muslims minds. In 2014, the rise of ISIS and their ideology, has added more negative images of Islam towards non-Muslim community. The impact of overload information towards Islam is unpleasant. Therefore, this conceptual paper discusses more on how the image of Muslim identity is being presented in fabricating Islam’s image to the world.
Keywords: Islam, Muslim, al-Qaeda, ISIS, social media, Muslim identity, technology, terrorism.
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Kemajuan teknologi telah mengubah cara bagaimana proses komunikasi dilakukan. Dengan kewujudan media baharu, mesej dapat tersebar dengan mudah dalam beberapa saat melalui media sosial. Isu Islam telah dibahaskan sejak sekian lama, di mana tidak semua orang bersedia menerima Islam. Walau bagaimanapun, teknologi dan media sosial telah memberi kelebihan dan kekurangan identiti orang Islam. Serangan 9/11 telah menunjukkan bahawa Muslim digambarkan sebagai pengganas di mana semantik keganasan selalu dipusatkan kepada Islam dan hampir seluruh warga dunia mempercayainya. Pada tahun 2001, media baru tidak digunakan sepenuhnya, namun ia menjana prejudis dalam minda orang bukan Islam. Pada 2014, kebangkitan ISIS dan ideologi mereka, telah menambahkan lebih banyak imej negatif mengenai Islam terhadap komuniti bukan Islam. Kesan maklumat yang berlebihan terhadap Islam adalah tidak menyenangkan. Oleh itu, kertas konseptual ini membincangkan lebih lanjut mengenai bagaimana imej identiti Muslim sedang diperlihatkan di mata dunia.
Kata kunci: Islam, Muslim, al-Qaeda, ISIS, media sosial, identiti Muslim, teknologi, keganasan.
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