scholarly journals New Horizons of Religious Studies in an Age of Information Media: A Creative Fusion of Media Studies, Cognitive Science, and Systems Studies

2008 ◽  
Vol null (52) ◽  
pp. 191-228
Author(s):  
Young Bin Moon
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Information Media ◽  
Systems Studies ◽  
Age Of Information

The 7E Model of the Human Mind: Articulating a Plastic Self for the Cognitive Science of Religion

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 450-476
Author(s):  
Flavio A. Geisshuesler
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cognitive Science Of Religion ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Religious Mind ◽  
Science Of Religion ◽  
Concrete Model

AbstractThis article proposes a 7E model of the human mind, which was developed within the cognitive paradigm in religious studies and its primary expression, the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). This study draws on the philosophically most sophisticated currents in the cognitive sciences, which have come to define the human mind through a 4E model as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended. Introducing Catherine Malabou’s concept of “plasticity,” the study not only confirms the insight of the 4E model of the self as a decentered system, but it also recommends two further traits of the self that have been overlooked in the cognitive sciences, namely the negativity of plasticity and the tension between giving and receiving form. Finally, the article matures these philosophical insights to develop a concrete model of the religious mind, equipping it with three further Es, namely emotional, evolved, and exoconscious.

Cognitive Media Ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-39
Author(s):  
Wyatt Moss-Wellington
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Aesthetic Autonomy ◽  
Literary Ethics

This chapter surveys a breadth of approaches to the ethics of film and other narrative media, both contemporary and historic, and positions them in relation to developments in cognitive media ethics. These include cine-ethics and film philosophy, phenomenological approaches, literary ethics and hermeneutics, notions of aesthetic autonomy, and ethics in narratology. The contributions and challenges of each approach are summarized, as are their uses in the development of a normative ethics for cognitive media studies. Throughout this chapter, a case emerges for the complementary, elaborative rigors of cognitive science, normative ethics, and consequentialism. The chapter concludes by indicating how methods for analysis developed at the center of these areas of study will inform the remainder of the book.

Everything is Noise: Don Delillo’s White Noise and the Affectivity of Media, Religion, and Divination

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-174
Author(s):  
Eric Chalfant
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
White Noise ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Spiritual Meaning ◽  
Friedrich Kittler ◽  
Warren Weaver

This paper provides a theoretical defense of the concept of noise, borrowed and loosened from the field of information theory, as a heuristic tool for discussing mediation as divination and exploring the intersection of media studies and religious studies. I first provide a theoretical primer for the concept of noise as it is articulated by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver and developed in media studies by Friedrich Kittler and in religious studies by Mark Taylor. Then, a close reading of Don Delillo’s White Noise draws out the potential of noise to highlight media’s ability to provide spiritual meaning and truth through an affect of divination. Finally, I connect these themes to current conceptions of media’s relationship to truth as well as recent anthropology on religious divination, suggesting the utility of noise to aid in scholarly efforts to materialize both media studies and religious studies as they engage with affect theory.

Believing in Bits

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Mind Reading ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Traditional Religions ◽  
Digital Media Studies ◽  
Theoretical Standpoint

Situated at the theoretical interface between the fields of media studies and religious studies, Believing in Bits advances the idea that religious beliefs and practices are inextricably linked to the functioning of digital media. Digital media—conceived as technologies and artifacts, as well as the systems of knowledge and values shaping our interaction with them—cannot be analyzed outside the system of beliefs and performative rituals that inform and prepare their use. How did we come to associate things such as mind reading and spirit communications with the functioning of digital technologies? Does the dignity accorded to the human and natural worlds within traditional religions translate to gadgets, avatars, or robots? How does the internet’s capacity to facilitate the proliferation of beliefs help blur the boundaries between what is considered fictional and factual? The chapters in this volume address these and similar questions, challenging and redefining established understandings of digital media and culture by employing the notions of belief, religion, and the supernatural. From a theoretical standpoint, this book relies on two different approaches that complement each other: a media archaeological approach that looks at the continuities and at the subtle relationships between earlier media histories and the contemporary landscape, and a perspective informed by digital media studies that takes into account the technical and social specificities of digital technologies.

Future research in cognitive science and religion

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 733-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Bulkeley
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Future Research

From a religious studies perspective, Atran & Norenzayan (A&N) succeed in arguing for the influence of evolved cognitive functions in religious phenomena. To develop their argument further, four suggestions are offered: (1) Look beyond the ordinary to the extraordinary; (2) culture matters more than ever; (3) theists need not despair, atheists ought not celebrate; and (4) dreaming is a primal wellspring of religion.

Meaningful Relations

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Body Problem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Enactive Cognitive Science ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Mind

This collection of works is a contribution to the current debates on the mind-body-problem. It discusses how mind and body make contact in sense-making processes from the point of view of enactive cognitive science and 4E approaches to cognition. It also offers a critical view on non-representational approaches to cognition. The book covers sociology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, computer science and HRI, media studies, literature and cognitive science. It offers cutting-edge research both for students and for junior and senior researchers in the fields mentioned above.

Media scarcity in an age of information abundance: the case of MK veterans

2020 ◽  
pp. 016344372096817
Author(s):  
Greg Elmer
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Military Veterans ◽  
African National Congress ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Age Of Information ◽  
Public Campaigns

This paper questions the dominant attention economy and media abundance framework in media studies by questioning the mediated politics of ‘media scarce’ communities and individuals. Focusing on the armed wing of the African National Congress (MK), the paper questions how media scarcity affects a group’s ability to engage in public campaigns, given their lack of historical media documentation. The paper analyzes how the MK developed various media tactics to overcome their lack of media documentation, both during the fight against the Apartheid state and in present day campaigns for military veterans’ rights.

scholarly journals Interview with Bryan S Turner: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Body & Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Tomoko Tamari
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Body Studies ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal ◽  
Opening Up

Body & Society started in 1995. The journal has been continuously exploring and problematizing critical issues which have been opening up new horizons in the field of body studies. As an interdisciplinary journal, it has engaged with a wider range of innovative approaches to the body, which includes sociology, cultural studies, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, history, science and technology studies, sensory studies and media studies. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Body & Society, managing editor Tomoko Tamari invited Professor Bryan S Turner, who was one of the journal’s founders (with Mike Featherstone), to reflect on the academic and historical background of Body & Society along with his own academic trajectory over the last 40 years.

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