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| “Listen to the Lama”: Analysing Bhutan’s digital media and online religious practices | |
Dorji WANGCHUK1; TODD LYLE SANDEL2 
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| 2024-12 | |
| Source Publication | The Routledge Handbook of Language and Social Media |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Abstract | Bhutan is one of the last countries to join the modern, mediated world. Yet with the growth of digital media and online connectivity, especially on social media platforms such as WeChat, these technologies allow Bhutanese—even in the remotest communities—to ‘leapfrog’ the problem of media access. New literacies and social practices have emerged that were unimaginable in the previous century. In this chapter, we first describe Bhutan’s mobile media and digital practices in this deeply religious, Buddhist nation. This is then linked to studies of online religion and digital chronotopes that show how people can perform and do rituals on digital platforms. Second, we present a sample analysis from an ethnographic study of a temple ceremony that is broadcast on WeChat, and responded to by members of an online group. This demonstrates how offline practices are adapted and transformed in the digital environment, while maintaining the meanings and understandings of the sacred across time-space dimensions. |
| Keyword | Bhutan Affordances Buddhism Chronotope Wechat Online Religion Hypermediation Enlightenment Lamas |
| Funding Project | Bhutan Media Studies Research Project: Change and Tradition across Generations |
| Language | 英語English |
| Document Type | Book chapter |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION |
| Corresponding Author | TODD LYLE SANDEL |
| Affiliation | 1.Chokshey Institute, Thimphu, Bhutan 2.University of Macau |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Dorji WANGCHUK,TODD LYLE SANDEL. “Listen to the Lama”: Analysing Bhutan’s digital media and online religious practices[M]. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Social Media:Routledge, 2024. |
| APA | Dorji WANGCHUK., & TODD LYLE SANDEL (2024). “Listen to the Lama”: Analysing Bhutan’s digital media and online religious practices. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Social Media. |
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