tweet if u ♥ jesus: spiritual authority, identity, and community in the digital reformation
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Slides from a presentation at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, October 30, 2010. From the catalogue:New social media is reshaping Christian practice. With more than 500 million users on Facebook alone, we cannot ignore the significance of this cultural and spiritual transformation. Extending the work of Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong with the practice theory of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper will explore the ways Web 2.0 technologies integrate pre- and postmodern modes of communication and associated interaction in community. The paper will outline the implications of new social media for the practice of Christianity and suggest ways that leaders in ministry can productively engage these technologies and the communities they help to create and sustain.The presentation paper will be available at www.elizabethdrescher.net the week of November 1.TRANSCRIPT
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion
Atlanta, GA
Elizabeth Drescher, PhDSanta Clara University
October 31, 2010
Spiritual, Id
entity &
Community in the
Digital Reformation
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Tweet if You Jesus. © Elizabeth Drescher, PhD, 2010-2010 www.elizabethdrescher.net
Tweet if You Jesus. © Elizabeth Drescher, PhD, 2010-2010 www.elizabethdrescher.net
Building a Better Bible?
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Go forth and blog…
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“There’s an App for That”
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Media
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A Sociocultural Definition of Christian Spirituality
Christian practice undertaken personally and in community
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Practice
embodiment and institutionalizing of a matrix of “durable, transposable dispositions” that both reinforce and transform traditions as they are enacted in intentional and accidental improvisations
From, Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977)
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Identity
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Evolving Media Relationship
Degree of User Creativity Possible
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Web 1.0
Web 2.0
Web 3.0
Secondary Orality
“a participatory mystique”;
the “fostering of a communal sense”;
a virtual extension of the local into what McLuhan called “the global village”—a late modern version of Benedict Anderson’s “imagined communities”;
the promotion of spontaneous rather than reflective communication; and
an orientation toward the social
Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (New York: Rutledge, 1982, 2002)
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Topics in Tweets with #chileanminers
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Chilean Miners Facebook Group
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Facebook Topic Trends
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