scholarly journals Churching Online: A Study on Religious Authority and Tourism in a Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-82
Author(s):  
Benson Rajan ◽  
Devaleena Kundu
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Assemblies Of God ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Faith Practices ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church

Christian churches in India with their growing access to digital technology have brought along promises to im-prove the interface between religion and society. This study looks at the Assemblies of God Fellowship (AGF), a popular youth church in Ahmedabad, Gujarat which has utilised the digital space to create an experience of engaging with the spiritual. This study contributes to-wards an ethnographically researched narrative of the church and its role in the domain of digital tourism, the manner in which religious authority negotiates the influx of the Internet. The research focusses on ways in which online communications shape religious meanings, identi-ties, expressions of religiosity, and contemporary notions of tourism. AGF‘s inclusion of the online in its day-to-day faith practices along with its establishment of new units such as the ‗media team‘ has led to the emergence of a media-savvy leadership.

scholarly journals Click off: How digital has disrupted New Zealand sports journalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Greg Michael Stutchbury
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Sports Journalism ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Print News ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

<p>This thesis examined through a political economy framework how New Zealand’s two largest newspaper chains, Fairfax and NZME, have been impacted by the advent of digital technologies and the effects these have had on the practice of sports journalism. Digital technology, falling revenue and increasing pressure from financial owners have all played a part in the restructuring of both Fairfax and NZME’s editorial news operations, especially in the last five years as both companies transitioned to a ‘digital-first’ environment.  Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 senior journalists who had knowledge of the transition from a print to a digital focus. These interviews highlighted the strategies adopted by both companies as they faced a challenging and evolving marketplace. They also underlined the internal tensions within newsrooms between not only journalists and editorial news managers but also the digital and print operations.  Despite the belief that digital technologies would make the print news media more collaborative and provide greater diversity and plurality, the opposite has occurred. Sports reporting remains highly routinised, coverage diversity is shrinking, and greater control is now exerted by editorial managers over the production of journalistic content. Digital technologies have also impacted the forms of content, with decision making on editorial content and resourcing now strongly influenced by data analytics, although there was still strong resistance to greater interactivity with readers. The relationship between sports organisations and print news media organisations, while considered in theory to be a symbiotic one but in reality, is an area of conflict, has also further deteriorated as sports organisations introduce significantly greater control over the media agenda. An element of this control has also heightened tensions with sports organisations moving into the digital space and competing directly with print news media organisations.</p>

Overcoming Digital Distance: The Challenge of Developing Relational Disciples in the Internet Age

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-390
Author(s):  
Chris Shirley
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
The World ◽  
Disciple Making ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church

Jesus' model for discipleship (John 15:1–16) is grounded within a context of human and divine relationships: abiding in Christ, fellowshipping with other disciples, and ministering to needs of others in the world and in the church. As the Christian community becomes increasingly reliant on digital technology and the Internet to provide an environment and resources for disciple-making we must also be familiar with the available options and understand the benefits and limitations of using these methods as we seek to establish and enhance these essential spiritual relationships.

scholarly journals Membangun Spiritualitas Digital bagi Generasi Z

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-395
Author(s):  
Adhika Tri Subowo
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Sacred And Profane ◽  
The Church

Abstract. Generation Z is a generation that is close to digital technology, so the use of digital space as a teaching tool is important for churches to do. The dichotomy of sacred and profane often colors the perception of the church in seeing the digital space, so that digital space has not been fully utilized. This research was intended propose the suitable digital spirituality for generation Z. This study was conducted by literature study. Through this study it could be concluded that cyberspace has become part of the generation Z spirituality, although the interactions and conversations in it are not always spiritually charged, therefore, the church needs to be involved in it to be able to provide guidance to generation Z.Abstrak. Generasi Z adalah generasi yang dekat dengan teknologi digital, sehingga penggunaan ruang digital sebagai sarana pengajaran menjadi penting untuk dilakukan oleh gereja. Dikotomi sakral dan profan seringkali mewarnai persepsi gereja dalam memandang ruang digital, sehingga ruang digital belum dimanfaatkan dengan maksimal. Penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk mengusulkan spiritualitas digital yang tepat bagi generasi Z. Metode yang digunakan dalam kajian ini adalah studi literatur. Melalui kajian tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa cyberspace telah menjadi bagian dari spiritualitas generasi Z, meskipun interaksi dan percakapan di dalamnya tidak selalu bermuatan rohani, sehingga gereja perlu ikut terlibat di dalamnya untuk dapat memberikan bimbingan kepada generasi Z.

Digital Convergence and IP Divergence

2011 ◽  
pp. 174-194
Author(s):  
Y. Tian
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Copyright Policy ◽  
Digital Convergence ◽  
Trade Wars ◽  
Trade Conflicts ◽  
The U.S

This chapter proposes a legal, political, and social framework for a nation to formulate proper copyright policy and minimize the risk of potential IP trade conflicts in the digital age. It examines the challenges that the Internet and digital technology present to the traditional copyright legal system. It reviews and compares the copyright history in the U.S. and China, and explores major rationales behind copyright policies of these two countries as well as the main reasons why they were able to avert potential IP trade wars in recent years. By drawing on their experiences, the author argues that the interest of a country is only best served by tailoring its IP regimes to its particular economic and social circumstances. The author believes a nation’s copyright policy should always strike a sound balance of IP protection and social development, and makes some specific suggestions on how to achieve this in the digital age.

scholarly journals Click off: How digital has disrupted New Zealand sports journalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Greg Michael Stutchbury
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Sports Journalism ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Print News ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

<p>This thesis examined through a political economy framework how New Zealand’s two largest newspaper chains, Fairfax and NZME, have been impacted by the advent of digital technologies and the effects these have had on the practice of sports journalism. Digital technology, falling revenue and increasing pressure from financial owners have all played a part in the restructuring of both Fairfax and NZME’s editorial news operations, especially in the last five years as both companies transitioned to a ‘digital-first’ environment.  Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 senior journalists who had knowledge of the transition from a print to a digital focus. These interviews highlighted the strategies adopted by both companies as they faced a challenging and evolving marketplace. They also underlined the internal tensions within newsrooms between not only journalists and editorial news managers but also the digital and print operations.  Despite the belief that digital technologies would make the print news media more collaborative and provide greater diversity and plurality, the opposite has occurred. Sports reporting remains highly routinised, coverage diversity is shrinking, and greater control is now exerted by editorial managers over the production of journalistic content. Digital technologies have also impacted the forms of content, with decision making on editorial content and resourcing now strongly influenced by data analytics, although there was still strong resistance to greater interactivity with readers. The relationship between sports organisations and print news media organisations, while considered in theory to be a symbiotic one but in reality, is an area of conflict, has also further deteriorated as sports organisations introduce significantly greater control over the media agenda. An element of this control has also heightened tensions with sports organisations moving into the digital space and competing directly with print news media organisations.</p>

scholarly journals MENGEMBANGKAN TEOLOGI SIBER DI INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Sefrianus Juhani
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
The People ◽  
Cyber Culture ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Does the internet change the way of thinking from the people and members of the Church in Indonesia? I give a “yes” answer to this question. This answer was born from the reality that digital technology is not limited as a means or instrument that helps humans to achieve a better life. More than that, the internet has become a space of life that determines and gives meaning to human existence and the existence of the Indonesian Church. The internet also creates a culture called cyber culture. If the internet breeds new logical thinking and culture, and its existence has seized the attention of members of the Catholic Church, so the internet can become locus theologicus. The existence of the internet as a locus of theology is confirmed by the Popes.<br />Seeing this reality, the Indonesian Catholic Church through the theologians need to develop a new theology, namely cyber theology. Through this cyber theology, the members of the Church find that the sophisticated communication technology reflects Christianism which is fundamentally a communicative event.</p><p><br /><strong>Keywords:</strong> Cyber theology, internet, Indonesian Church, cyber culture</p>

Convergence and de-convergence of Chinese journalistic practice in the digital age

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1380-1396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Li
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Convergence Model ◽  
Journalistic Practice

The existing literature broadly suggests that newsrooms are adapting to the media convergence world at the cost of traditional quality journalism. However, based on my ethnographic study of the Beijing News, I propose a convergence and de-convergence model of journalistic practice. The model explains how one Chinese newspaper preserves the legacy of critical journalism, on the one hand, while negotiating the challenges of adapting to the converging trends on the other. I argue that a well-established organizational culture and a working routine are crucial in the newspaper’s transformation, which makes it impossible to redesign the newsroom and redefine journalism with technology alone. Moreover, the article calls for a more nuanced understanding of the transformation of legacy media in the digital age, especially considering a non-Western context. I argue that the Chinese newspaper’s response to technological and economic impacts brought by the Internet is in fact mediated by political concerns.

scholarly journals Mediated interaction in the digital age

Matrizes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-44
Author(s):  
John B. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Interaction ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Interactional Theory ◽  
Fourth Type ◽  
The Media ◽  
Symbolic Content

In The media and modernity, Thompson develops an interactional theory of communication media that distinguishes between three basic types of interaction: 1) face-to-face interaction, 2) mediated interaction, and 3) mediated quasi-interaction. In the light of the digital revolution and the growth of the internet, this paper introduces a fourth type: mediated online interaction. Drawing on Goffman’s distinction between front regions and back regions, Thompson shows how mediated quasi-interaction and mediated online interaction create new opportunities for the leakage of information and symbolic content from back regions into front regions, with consequences that can be embarrassing, damaging and, on occasion, hugely disruptive.

Internet and Media in American Folklore and Folklife

2019 ◽  
pp. 597-624
Author(s):  
David J. Puglia
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Media ◽  
American Folklore ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The media of print, radio, film, television, and especially the Internet are subjects as well as sources of folklore and folklife. Following the rise of the Internet in the late twentieth century, and its proliferation in the early twenty-first century, bringing with it Web 2.0 and the performative folk web, folklorists increasingly turned to the Internet to research folk processes and compare them to the kinds of transmission in face-to-face communities. Digital folklore—with “memes” being most recognizable—flourishes online, and the Internet creates new traditional forms and practices. The Internet challenges long-standing assumptions, definitions, methods, and theories in what has been called the predigital or analog era. Folklore and folklife research of media and digital technology contributes to the broader field of communication and media studies by emphasizing the continued importance of informal culture and group aesthetics in technologically mediated environments.

scholarly journals Homo disruptus and the future church

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Ungerer
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
General Intelligence ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a phrase that is frequently heard in the media. This study explores the major changes that this revolution has installed for us. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is an umbrella term for many aspects, and the study takes note of the concepts like the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence, artificial superintelligence, transhumanism and Homo digitalis. The spin-off effect of this revolution may cause possible disruptive effects on Homo sapiens by creating greater numbers of Homo disruptus. The term Homo disruptus is not a frequently used term, although it can be used in conjunction with the disruption that will be part of our future. Disruption may occur because of emerging technology, robotics, unemployment, digital dictatorships and exploitation, the side effects of Homo digitalis and transhumanism. The church will be part and parcel of this world, although the church does not have to be a victim and can play a significant role in anchoring Homo disruptus with the timeless message of the gospel and finding innovative ways to deal with their disruptive world.

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