Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Cyberspace
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Wired News: Real World Doesn’t Use a Joystick Kozy Kitchens’ experience with having a difficult time separating her real-life consciousness from that of her game playing is all too common among hard-core gamers. It’s so common, in fact, that game publishers might want to consider warning their customers that they may soon be unable to…
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Wired News: Cell Phone Users Are Finding God Once merely a useful tool for keeping in touch on the go, the mobile phone is fast finding a new niche as an instrument of spiritual enlightenment. Link found via: TallSkinnyKiwi: (WIRED) Cell Phone Users Are Finding God
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Just writing up some stuff on different approaches to technology. From those who see technology as liberator, to those who see it as oppressor, and those who see it as value-neutral. Then this popped up in the newsreader. Somedays a doctrine of total depravity seems to get it right. Wired News: Pursuing the Libido’s Dark…
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Over in his new blog Tall Skinny Kiwi has posted about people borrowing Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of the noosphere – a global mind or interconnected consciousness or even soul – to visualise cyberspace. (See: RecycledSpam: Noosphere). It was interesting to see it crop up as I’ve just finished writing a paper that looks at…
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Spent an hour and a half this afternoon watching the documentary Synthetic Pleasures (1996) by Iara Lee as part of my research and also to get some discussion questions for Monday’s lecture on being or becoming human in Western technoculture. Couldn’t get hold of a copy in NZ so ordered it in from overseas post-haste.…
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Just looking through my bookmarks collection and came across Heidi Campbell’s Web Page: Research in New Media and Religious Online Communities. She’s “investigating the nature of community, religion and the social through an analysis of new media technologies.” Intriguing stuff. There are some links to things she’s written including online versions of some of them.
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For all you interested in cyberculture I found this today: The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview It is a large collection of materials drawn together by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University.
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I’m still thinking and reading about religion, technology and the nature of human identity in cyberspace. (I’ll be thinking about this for at least another 2 years until my thesis is finished) One book I find my self continually dipping into is Brenda Brasher’s Give Me That Online Religion. It’s easy to read, contains people’s…