Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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The history of computers has always intrigued me, and so I found this recent interview interesting. I’d forgotten the Turing comments at the end, as it’s been a while since I read his “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” paper. See Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired’s Kevin Kelly | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
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New website for those interested in the intersections between media, religion and digital culture Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies From the blurb on the web site: The Network is designed for scholars, students and those interested in exploring topics and questions emerging at the intersections of religion, the internet and new,…
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Somehow I’d missed this. Would have been good for one of the kid’s movie projects. See film music | mobygratis.com
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Definitely a problem we’ve run into, where a child of ours has been asked to do a school assignment based on their use of social networking, while at the same time all or most of the children in that class are too young to meet the age requirements for the service. On the one hand,…
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Peter Horsfield mentioned that podcasts from the recent symposium on Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (Monash University) are now online. Sounded interesting when I had a chat with the organiser, Danielle Kirby, back in August. See Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture Symposium, Arts, Monash University. Sadly, I couldn’t get over there (it was also the…
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Ah, satire, my old friend, I’ve missed you. Apple Church draws iFaithful – LarkNews.com
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Over at Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins there a link through to the Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World project. This project aims to develop a set of curricular materials “designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in…
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From the religion and media file: AFP: Hajj being live-streamed on YouTube.
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From Toronto, the latest issue of Tyndale University College and Seminary’s magazine focuses specifically on church and technology, including the summary of some research they’ve done on technology use in church in Ontario. You can access the entire magazine in electronic form here: Tyndale, The Magazine | eVersion | Tyndale The summary article is available…
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Given the shift towards public and institutional libraries moving towards the eBook work, this raises some interesting questions. See Amazon, OverDrive, and Kindle! Oh my! | The Digital Immigrant. (P.S. Not entirely convinced by Auckland Library’s Overdrive link up in terms of pragmatics – just too fiddly and unfriendly to struggle with.)