American Fundamentalism in the New Media: Transmedia Narratives of Baptists, Evangelists, and Methodists

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Author(s): Ceren Yegen (Muş Alparslan University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 16
Source title: Handbook of Research on Transmedia Storytelling and Narrative Strategies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Recep Yılmaz (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey), M. Nur Erdem (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey)and Filiz Resuloğlu (Kocaeli University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5357-1.ch024

Keywords: Digital Humanities / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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Evangelists, conservative Protestants, are an important majority in the United States. Baptists and Methodists, alleged to be different groups of American Protestants like Evangelists, perform a number of fundamentalist activities through social media. Related groups use hypertextual, intertextual, and current narrative stratagies in social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Therefore, in this study, Awakening Evangelism (@EvangelismDaily), Baptist News Global (@baptist_news), and WV United Methodist (@WVUMC) who support the groups mentioned in the study (Evangelists, Baptists, and Methodists) and report USA as location's Twitter accounts' shares were examined. Hereby, how the American fundamentalism realized through new media was researched.

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