The Rise of “Polygamy” Campaign in Contemporary Social Media

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10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_42How to use a DOI?

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Polygamy; Facebook; Islamic texts

Abstract

Albeit polygamy is culturally accepted in Indonesia, it remains a controversial issue. Local perception to this topic relates to the cultural and religious interpretation. While many people use social media of Facebook as a space for expression, such campaign on polygamy arise and widespread in this online platform. The invitation to join what so called polygamy community or group is quite reaching either man and women or young and mature people. Previous studies have been carried out observing its meaning based on religious perspective, however, only few who endeavor to describe its relation to contemporary online campaign phenomenon. By applying reception theory, this paper shows that polygamy group of Poligami Syarie promotes the idea of polygamy through Facebook account. More than four thousand members of the group tend to agree with polygamy. Most reasons rely on Islamic texts while few of them express social motivation.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lutfiyah Alindah
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/03/19
TI  - The Rise of “Polygamy” Campaign in Contemporary Social Media
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2022 (IJCAH 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 381
EP  - 387
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_42
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_42
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