Exploring the Intersections of Online and Offline Mediums: Navigating the Post-Pandemic Leisure Culture, Religious Dimensions, and Leisure Class in Kazakhstan

Zhanar  Abildinova; Hakan Gülerce; Yerkin  Aubakirov; Manifa  Sarkulova

doi:10.32350/jitc.132.19

Zhanar Abildinova L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5770-2930
Hakan Gülerce Harran University, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3601-5725
Yerkin Aubakirov L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3538-5302
Manifa Sarkulova L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5992-2814

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32350/jitc.132.19

Keywords: digitalization, isolation, online medium, offline medium, post-pandemic, religious dimensions

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With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, digitalization has accelerated in all areas of life. Each person as a social being strives to gain freedom at least during their leisure time, which was one of the reasons for thousands of anti-Covid protests around the world, including Kazakhstan. It shows the need for a deep analysis of leisure practices in the online medium and offline medium of modern society. The main thesis put forward in this paper concerns the urgent need for the modernization and regulation of offline leisure practices in Kazakhstan in accordance with the appropriate legal, cultural, moral, and religious dimensions. There were two inevitable processes taking place in the period of the Covid-19 pandemic: the digitalization of leisure practices and social distancing and personal isolation. Although in most cases the main concern during the pandemic was on issues of converting of practices to unusual conditions, fundamental themes affecting the very core of each of the religious traditions came to the fore from time to time. In this article the digitization of everyday life via leisure practices in the online medium and offline medium are also discussed.

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