The lecture focuses on the multiple and complex relationships between gender, religion, and new media through a case study of the Ultra-Orthodox community in Israel. The main argument is that we should see gender, religion, and new media as a triangle comprising a system in which each part influences the others in multiple ways. This argument implies that a contemporary study of any one aspect should use an intersectional analysis to take the others and their interactions into account. Moreover, analyzing intersections of gender, religion, and new media requires attention to relations, continuums, and negative spaces that are both creating and emerging from the pairing of the ostensibly oppositional categories of women/men, religion/secularization, new/traditional media.
The Ultra-Orthodox community in Israel provides a case study that can demonstrate how the intersections between gender, religion, and new media necessarily entail changing boundaries between women and men, religion and secularization, traditional and new media. It contributes to our understanding of how taking into account both the complicated negative spaces and rich continuums of the triangular relationships between the sides and angles of this gender/religion/media triangle enable us to have a new multi-layered approach.