Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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2011 ANZCA Conference Communication on the edge: Shifting boundaries and identities Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) 2011 Conference The University of Waikato, Hamilton, 6-8 July 2011 The Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference will be hosted by the Department of Management Communication and the Screen and Media Studies Programme at The…
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Missed this when it came out last year – an issue of the Princeton Theological Review oriented around the theme of ‘The Church after Google’. You can get a list of all the past issues here (with download links). Or just download Issue 43 (Fall 2010) The Church after Google directly (PDF). Content of issue:…
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Related to the previous link is this one forwarded on to me by Dermott McMeel on using video games to generate social engagement. See Shareable: Civic Engagement: The Video Game
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The Bible Online is a recent entry into the online real-time strategy (RTS) game market, but with the spin of playing biblical characters in the ancient near east. RTS games aren’t my cup of tea, but I might play for a bit just to see what they’ve done with it. Rachel Wagner has an article…
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Short article over at Science and Religion Today (What Spiritual App Is There a Market for? Paul Lamb Answers) on the use of mobile applications maintain and strengthen spiritual communities. Echoes of past thoughts from both Steve Taylor (sustain:if:able kiwi » mobile theology) and Pete Ward ("Liquid Church").
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I’m not a big Marvel comics fan, though I’ll read them if they’re around (and I quite like Spider-Man), but I do like DC and Vertigo. So reasons to acquire an iPad just increased. See Newsarama.com : DC Does DIGITAL: iPhone, iPad App Premieres on iTunes And, even with exchange rates, the comics will cost…
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I can’t see myself getting my hands on an iPad in the near future, but I’m interested in what people might use them for in education. Derek has some links through to some thoughts on that over at Derek’s Blog » iPads in Education, including this article (with videos) on how it might be the…
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Wired Magazine recently published an article with a range of opinions on tablet computing: 13 of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet | Wired Magazine. I haven’t played around enough with tablet computers and appliances to come to any conclusions about them yet, so I found this interesting. Also,…
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One of the things we spent a little bit of time in ethics class last year was how the wired/digital world might intersect with ethics, and in particular digital downloads. So I was interested to see this brief comment in the ethics section of the New York Times, where the author argued that some digital…
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Quite possibly the most useful little application I’ve come across in a while – Jomic – a viewer for comic book archives