Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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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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Sentient Developments posts the trailer for the upcoming “transhuman” series from Brian Singer. See Sentient Developments: Trailer for “H+” web series More details over at Bryan Singer’s Post-Apoc, Webjacked Web Series ‘H+’ Debuts at Comic-Con | News & Opinion | PCMag.com See also: Bryan Singer beams the internet straight into your brain, in the trailer…
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Some helpful advice on academic publishing for new academics. From Dissertation to Book – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education It’s a Dissertation, Not a Book – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Josh McDowell vs. Kevin Kelly | Jesus Creed points to these two opinions about the internet and its potential for harm or health respectively. In the negative corner: Apologist Josh McDowell: Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians, Christian News While in the optimistic corner, Kevin Kelly: Geek Theologian | Christianity Today | A Magazine of…
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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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Hat tip to SAET » Biblical Studies Toolbar » The Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology for the link to the Tyndale Toolbar | Tyndale House. Might be useful to have it available in the web browser from time to time.
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The day started well yesterday. We had a really good session in the postgrad class ‘Science, Technology, Media and God’ looking at religion and spirituality in the online space, as well as some ethical thoughts on that, and then when I emerged from that there was a copy of “Friending: Real Relationships in a Virtual…
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Ran a three session workshop on “digital life” for a vestry retreat day over on the North Shore today. I enjoyed it, and there were good questions and comments from people in the sessions and over morning tea and lunch.
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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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I’ve been wondering when something like this might happen. Various gatherings happen around the place – bibliobloggers, panels at conferences and other events, and then the non-denominational gatherings around religious blogging – but I can’t remember seeing anything else like this. Any other similar events around? Vatican invites bloggers to first-ever summit – Religion and…