AT-TURAS: Jurnal Studi Keislaman
Vol 10, No 2 (2023)

Commodification of the Qur'an as an Advertising Strategy for Women's Clothing in the @hijabalila Account

Jannah, Roudlotul (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Dec 2023

Abstract

The Qur'ān that is present in social media by involving meaning tends to lead to commodification efforts. The @hijabalila account as a Muslim women's clothing sales account uses the meaning of the Qur'ān as a means of advertising its commodities. The meaning made by the @hijabalila account is adjusted to marketing interests by using language narratives. The adjustment of meaning to the marketing interests of the @hijabalila account ignores other forms of meaning of the criteria for women's clothing which has an impact on changing the function of the Quran as a commodification tool. So, this research focuses on examining how the process of commodification of the Quran is used as an advertisement for women's clothing on the @hijabalila account. This research was applied using a qualitative method of literature review obtained from data sources related to research with the theory of Vincent Mosco's political economy approach. As a result, the commodification process carried out by the @hijabalila account can be seen from three sides. First, the @hijabalila account gives meaning to the Qur'an adjusted to the goods sold and used as content. Second, besides utilising the interpretation of the Qur'an to attract audiences, the @hijabalila account also uses Isntagram as a medium for marketing expansion. Third, there is a process of production and reproduction through the formation of meaning in the verses of women's clothing by the @hijabalila account to the audience.

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at-turas

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Subject

Arts Humanities Economics, Econometrics & Finance Education Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences

Description

Two decades or more, in the global scheme, Islamic studies have been enforced to take broader paradigms from dogmatic-theology to popular-religious. Islamic studies is not merely discussing on sacred corpus only, but everyday life of Islam also. In academic space, this field has increasingly been an ...