Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Cyberspace
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Heidi posts a collection of links that track messianic expectation (of sorts) around Apple’s iPhone. See When Religion Meets New Media: IPhone = Jesus Phone?!?. Reminds me of this from Kevin Kelly in his article, “The Third Culture.” (Science 279 (1998): 992-993.): One would expect to see frenzied, messianic attempts to make stuff, to have…
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A recent article in La Civilta Cattolica by Jesuit Antonio Spadaro argues for Catholics to consider virtual worlds, such as Second Life, as potential mission fields. See: Catholics urged to save virtual souls too – Stuff.co.nz FT.com : Gospel 2.0: Jesuits move into Second Life: You can read the article abstract here (in Italian) and…
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Tim Bulkeley’s on the lookout for people interested in religion and media. Calling Auckland Bloggers! or Media and Religion scholars?Heidi Campbell (Texas A & M) author of When Religion Meets New Media (Routledge) and the blog “When Religion Meets New Media” if there are bloggers in the Auckland vicinity who would be interested in a…
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The first volume of the Wikiklesia Project – Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution – is scheduled for release on July 23, 2007. It’s a collection of reflections and essays by around 40 contributors looking at relationships between emerging (digital) technologies, spirituality, and the church. You can find a press…
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A selection of links that intersect around the role of new media in educational environments. Henry Jenkins has an essay (in two parts) that looks at the tension between participatory media and traditional educational models, and in particular emphasises the critical application of the following skill set: Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge…
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Article recently in the Washington Post looks at the different ways in which people are bringing religion into the Second Life virtual environment. See Finding Religion in Second Life’s Virtual Universe – washingtonpost.com (Text also available here) Related links: Anglican Second Life Inhabitants Construct Medieval Cathedral – Game | Life – Wired Blogs and The…
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Article from Wired highlighting an internet service for getting ‘debaptised’ from the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. See Debaptism 2.0: Fleeing the Flock Via the Net
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I borrowed a copy of “Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends†(edited by Kevin Vanhoozer, Charles Anderson and Michael Sleasman: 2007) from the library the other day because it contained a copy of the essay “Human 2.0: Transhumanism as a Cultural Trend†(PDF) by Matthew Eppinette, as well as an essay…
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Seen over at BetterHumans.com (anthropophobiacandroids : CyberPsalms 23) comes a transhumanist/technoprogressive psalm. CyberPsalms 23 – By: anthropophobiacandroidsThe CyberLord is my technician, I shall not be denied. He makes me lie down in electronic pastures, He leads me beside quiet routers, and He restores my power. He guides me in networks of righteousness for His name’s…
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Having just posted the previous post I came across the following which also relate to religious narratives and media. Both are connected to MIT’s Science, Technology, and Society program which held a recent communications colloquium “Evangelicals and the mediaâ€. Henry Jenkins: Why Media Studies Should Pay More Attention to Christian Media… Evangelicals and the Media…