Dr. Read Schuchardt outlines 8 principles to guide every Christian social media user’s relationship with Twitter.
Antagonism on YouTube: Metaphor in Online Discourse
There are a few corners of the digital world that I leave unvisited in order to preserve my sanity, namely the dark net, my ex’s Facebook page, and YouTube comments. Stephen Pihlaja braves the last of these domains in his monograph Antagonism on YouTube: metaphor in online discourse (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). In six chapters spanning […]
The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World
Our technological advancements have one trajectory: up. Up the corporate ladder, up in social status, up and away from our surroundings, our physical demands, from the bore of the everyday. We are headed up, yet the happiest people in the world are the Danes sitting down to have dinner. Editor’s note: The following is an […]
The Screwtape Letters Continued: Technological Progress
My Dear Wormwood: We have succeeded in convincing the vermin that technological progress is the same as moral progress. Our old enemy, that Oxford don, even gave it a name: “chronological snobbery”—or, what is new is good, since it is more “advanced,” “modern,” “up to date,” and so on. But that old character, who coined […]
Jana Marguerite Bennett’s “Aquinas on the Web?”: A Review
Jana Marguerite Bennett, Aquinas on the Web? Doing Theology in an Internet Age, New York: T&T Clark, 2012, 200 pages, $37.20. Like Jesus’ critics who wondered, “Can anything good come out of Galilee?” I often wonder, “Can anything good come out of Ohio?” But a recent book, Aquinas on the Web? Doing Theology in an […]
Reading List: Ancient Gods, the New Luddites, the NoPhone, & a Threat to the Internet
Google Street View Is Blurring the Faces of Ancient Gods “Ever notice how all the faces are blurred in Google Street View photos? That happens thanks to a privacy-enabling robot. But it’s not a perfect robot. The Google Street View robot not only blurs the faces of humans but also of statues, despite the fact […]
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