Online Settings: Becoming and Believing

Abstract

This chapter examines Facebook, as well as social networking sites more generally. Engaging with the key concept of ‘online embodiment’ (Farquhar, 2012), it explores embodiment, emotion, and temporality as expressed via Facebook. Furthermore, it links back to the methodological dilemmas situated here in terms of the presence of Facebook in qualitative research with specific groups of young people. There is a lack of attention to religion in relation to music and social networking within existing literature and Chapters 3 and 4 therefore represent a unique point of departure. Both areas represent substantive fields where ‘youth’ are typically situated, and yet this gap in relation to religion persists.