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Delegating Religious Practices to Autonomous Machines, A Reply to “Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda”

Author: Yaqub Chaudhary

Published in: Minds and Machines | Issue 2/2019

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Öhman et al. (2019) have drawn attention to the phenomenon of Islamic Prayer-Bots and religious worship on Twitter and social media platforms, which, they argue, has gone unnoticed by the research community, despite the significant scale of the activity. In this case, prayers and supplications are automatically posted to the accounts of real people by third party services through the accounts of real users who “creatively automate a facet of their online activity.” …

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Metadata
Title
Delegating Religious Practices to Autonomous Machines, A Reply to “Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda”
Author
Yaqub Chaudhary
Publication date
09-04-2019
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Minds and Machines / Issue 2/2019
Print ISSN: 0924-6495
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8641
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-019-09499-2

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