In the previous week, we discussed our topic of interest,
social justice for Muslims. Now, we will attempt to provide a little more
definition to our group. First, we plan to focus on how Muslims are represented
and what they do to represent themselves on the internet and other
technological platforms. This can range from Muslim parents to children or just
any other Muslim demographic that might be misrepresented in today’s media.
This will happen as we monitor different movements and events on sites such as
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. Muslims in our current American media are
portrayed 97% as terrorists or even just as threatening citizens. Throughout
the web there has been a wide variety of movements to stop such perceptions.
Miguel and I want to analyze such movements by contrasting perception versus
reality. We chose this because of the frequency of which these
misrepresentations happen.
A recent incident that comes to mind is that
of Ahmed Mohammed, a 14 year-old Texas student, who has circled the internet
due to an unjust arrest. Mohammed was arrested when he arrived to school with a
clock that he had built on his own. His attempt to impress his teacher led to
him being arrested under the circumstances that the school believed he had
brought a bomb to the school. These are the types of incidents we hope to
acknowledge and clarify throughout our project.
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