Hey All! This is my trailer for the Religion and Media project that I'm working on this semester for my Mediated Culture class. Stay tuned! There's more to come.
Hope that got you excited for this project because I know I am! I'm looking forward to digging deeper into how the Christian Church is using new media and finding specific cases, while also trying to discover whether or not this is the trend, or rather the exception to the rule. I also want to see whether the use of new media is effective for the Church, and religion in general. Why or why not? If the Church truly wants to affect our generation, is this (being media) something it should invest in, or is it a waste of time? What do believers & non-believers think of the Church "plugging in"?... still uncertain of exactly where this project will go, but those are some of the questions I'm hoping we'll answer.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Social Networks
Think social networking is just about using facebook? Maybe it's time to think again...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Changing the Face of Religion
My vision for our final project is to dig deeper into the ways that religion today is using new media and technology - (and perhaps how the media/technology is using religion). The world today is mediated in a way that is changing so rapidly, and it seems as though we're sometimes running to keep up. Religion also changes with the times and culture, but can it keep up? And beyond that can it use the multitude of new media as a tool?
For example, within the Christian church, a new missions strategy is forming to reach people groups in Africa using mobile phone technology. An important source for this is The Little Phone That Could: Mobile-Empowered Ministry by Keith Williams and Leith Gray which details the project.
Another interesting source is Globalization of the Electronic Media and Universality of Religion: Convergence or Divergence by M. R. Saeidabadi which speaks to how both religion and electronic media have an increasingly global scope and how they interact with each other.
For example, within the Christian church, a new missions strategy is forming to reach people groups in Africa using mobile phone technology. An important source for this is The Little Phone That Could: Mobile-Empowered Ministry by Keith Williams and Leith Gray which details the project.
Another interesting source is Globalization of the Electronic Media and Universality of Religion: Convergence or Divergence by M. R. Saeidabadi which speaks to how both religion and electronic media have an increasingly global scope and how they interact with each other.
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