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There's a Religious App for That! A Framework for Studying Religious Mobile Application
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 2, issue 2 (2014), pp. 154-172
"This article provides a new methodological approach to studying religious-oriented mobile applications available on the iTunes app store. Through an extensive review of 451 religious apps a number of problems were noted when relying solely on iTunes categories to identify app functions and purpose.
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Die Kirche in der digitalen Welt: Die Verbreitung der Frohen Botschaft
Communicatio Socialis, issue 4 (2014), pp. 483-492
"Wenn wir von der kommunikativen Mission der Kirche sprechen, sprechen wir nicht von einer Mission unter vielen. Tatsächlich sprechen wir über den fundamentalen Grund, warum die Kirche existiert. Die Kirche existiert durch den Willen Gottes und sie existiert genau zu dem Zweck, die Frohe Botschaft
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Social Media Guidelines
Washington, DC: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) (2014), 8 pp.
"These guidelines are offered as a synthesis of best practices. They include material compiled from church entities, for-profit corporations, and non-profit organizations [...] In this document, “church personnel” is defined as anyone—priest, deacon, religious, bishop, lay employee, or volunte
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Cybertheology: Thinking Christianity in the Era of the Internet
New York: Fordham University Press (2014), xiii, 137 pp.
"In this book, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, Director of the Italian Journal La Civiltà Cattolica, attempts to address a new phenomenon – Cybertheology. If theology is talking about God, Cybertheology is the way in which God is talked about on the Internet. Spadaro’s background is in literary critic
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Heretics: Iran’s Religious Minorities
Small Media (2014), 148 pp.
"With this report we explore how different religious minorities in Iran use the internet to engage with their communities in Iran and around the world. To build a representative picture, we drew on diverse sources, piecing together historical accounts, content analysis, legal frameworks, and the voi
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The Rediscovery of Religious Silence in the Social Media Era: A Korean Case
Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2013), pp. 138-154
Mobile Mindfulness: Practicing Digital Religion on Smartphones with Buddhist Meditation Apps
University of Colorado, Master Thesis (2013), iv, 92 pp.
"In this thesis, I introduce and focus on the term “mobile mindfulness,” arguing that David McMahan’s elements of Buddhist modernism are intensified when practicing religion on the smartphone. These “mobile mindfulness” characteristics include the creation of transient experimental places
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Religion and the Internet: A Microcosm for Studying Internet Trends and Implications
New Media & Society, volume 15, issue 5 (2013), pp. 680-694
"Through a critical overview of research on religion online, five central research areas emerge related to social practices, online-offline connections, community, identity, and authority online. It is also argued that observations about these themes not only point to specific trends within religiou
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Hinduism and Internet in 2010-12: An Essay on Websites, Blogs, Social Media, Censorship and 'Internet Hindu'
Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2013), pp. 53-62
Communication Technology Impacts Thai Culture and Buddhist Way of Life
Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2013), pp. 108-120
Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2013), xi, 272 pp.
"Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From cell phones and video games to blogs an
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What Would Jesus Post? Seven Principles Christians Should Follow in Social Media
Bloomington (Indiana): WestBow Press (2013), 103 pp.
"Social media gives each of us enormous power to influence others for good or ill. But far too many Christians ignore the opportunities and undermine their own reputations through thoughtless words shared online. This book comes directly from the author's experiences as an attorney and a church lead
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Citizen Journalism in the Context of New Evangelization: The Place of Digital Social Media in Church Communication
Jos Studies, volume 21 (2013), pp. 107-122
Islam and Islamic Teaching Online
Communication Research Trends, volume 31, issue 1 (2012), pp. 24-30
Religious Diaspora and Information Communications Technology: The Impact of Globalization on Communal Relations in Egypt
"The age-old Coptic balancing act of proving that they are patriotic Egyptians while retaining a strong attachment to their religious and cultural identity has become harder in the globalization era, when specific individuals and groups based on another continent can affect the domestic political en
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Catholic Approaches to the Internet
Communication Research Trends, volume 31, issue 1 (2012), pp. 14-24
Jewish Cyber-Theology
Communication Research Trends, volume 31, issue 1 (2012), pp. 4-14
"This article attempts to extrapolate from the Jewish Tradition a Jewish view on the Internet. To be contrasted are the Orthodox stream, itself broken into the ultra-Orthodox Haredi and Modern Orthodox (dati leumi), and the non-Orthodox streams, the Reform and Conservative [...] This essay will exam
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"Este texto pretende fazer uma análise das práticas comunicacionais católicas na internet e seus possíveis motivos, em particular, estudando a evangelização do padre Fábio de Melo na web. Para entender os possíveis motivos e as dimensões destas práticas foi abordado o cenário da religião
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Life is Local in the Imagined Global Community: Islam and Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 11, issue 2 (2012), pp. 127-140
"The rapid expansion of the Internet, marked by a storm of blogs and social networking platforms, is perceived as an enabling instrument for Muslims to be engaged globally. In this regard, the blogosphere can be a vehicle for worldwide interactions and the formation of global Muslim community, the u
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New Media and Islam
In: Asian Communication Handbook
