Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Cyberspace
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The blog’s been pretty quiet while I’ve been concentrating on other things. One of those other things is a research project looking at post- and transhumanism in popular culture, and particularly in film. One of those projects has been the development of a couple of blogs to track that. The first of these is underway…
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I like short films, and especially short science fiction films that unpack a particular question or theme (for example, the original short version of ‘9’), so I was interested to see this engaging trailer for a short film called ‘True Skin’ exploring the human technological augmentation and being wrapped in media: See the video trailer…
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Hat tip to Derek for the cartoon about the always connected life. See Derek’s Blog » Always connected
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A couple of pieces about ‘the Cloud’ from this week. TidBITS Networking: The Future is Disposable fishers, surfers and casters » iCloud musings
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The most recent Spiritual Outlook programme on Radio New Zealand National is on digital religion and includes an interview with Rachel Wagner (Ithaca College, and author of forthcoming Godwired: Religion. Ritual, and Virtual Reality). You can listen to the audio here (as well as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files). Podcast link is http://www.radionz.co.nz/podcasts/spiritualoutlook Rachel was…
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Hat tip to Heidi Campbell for this conference announcement. International Conference on Digital Religion 2012 The Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at the University of Colorado-Boulder has announced an International Conference on Digital Religion, to be held 12-15 January 2012 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. ‘Digital Religion” today includes a myriad of examples: an evangelical…
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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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The Sydney Morning Herald (and associated Fairfax sites) carried this piece (Pray… in 255 characters or fewer) about the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart and the online Mary MacKillop Prayer Space they’ve set up (which is part of a larger Saint Mary MacKillop site).
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This project is really interesting – the creation of a virtual choir. The original idea can be found here – Virtual Choir Project II: Lux Aurumque – Blog – Eric Whitacre The lead into the project can be found here – The Virtual Choir – Eric Whitacre (with links through to the media resources produced)…
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Derek points to this : Derek’s Blog » The complete guide to Google Wave. Looks like it might be useful reading once I have some time to play with my Google Wave account.