Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Cyberspace
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The article The Alban Institute – The New Connectivity: How Internet Innovations Are Changing the Way We Do Church by Andrea Useem makes some interesting points about digital technologies and religious community. Resonates with me this weekend as I’m speaking tomorrow evening at church on technology as the environment we inhabit, and also because I attended…
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Heidi Campell’s started a new wiki for researching issues related to religion, the internet and other forms of new media. See the link below: Main Page – Studying Religion and New Media
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Interesting short article What United Methodists can learn from Wikipedia by Hacking Christianity blog author Jeremy Smith.
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Paul Walker kicks off a series of posts coming out of his research on theological perspectives on the Internet. Part one can be found at Church 2.0 – Main – Theological perspectives on the Internet part 1. Looking forward to parts 2 though 99(?).
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Via Russell Brown’s column in the latest NZ Listener – Wide Area News: Casting the net – a link through to the World Internet Project New Zealand being done by AUT’s Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication. The World Internet Project New Zealand (WIP NZ) is an extensive research project which aims to provide important…
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As someone interested in both transmedia narratives and the TV show ‘Heroes’ I was really interested to read this article recently. Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: “We Had So Many Stories to Tell”: The Heroes Comics as Transmedia Storytelling and to find the link to the online ‘Heroes’ comics that…
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Interesting article on Wired’s web site about developments that see brain-machine interfaces moving from therapeutic domains and into the entertainment world, and medical concerns about that. see BCI – Brain to Control Games Directly, Maybe Vice Versa
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The NZ Privacy Commissioner has a press release out on what she calls “privacy pollution” caused by individuals and wider society being permeated by digital media and transactions. “Privacy pollution is about the small privacy incursions that are annoying rather than harmful in themselves, but can accumulate and have widespread impact that can ultimately amount…
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The Ideas slot on Sunday morning on Radio NZ National was about virtual worlds, including both positive and negative voices about their effects on individuals and wider society. Audio available via podcast or from the link on the Ideas page. (Be aware that the default audio format is WMA. If you want MP3 then you…
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Satirical piece over at LarkNews.com: Virtual Pastors please picky church-goers. I’d laugh more, but I can see it actually happening (given that congregations try to do it in real life sometimes).