Archive for October, 2009
Social networking and faith identity
Friday, October 9th, 2009My latest column for Comment magazine is online now: Social networking and faith identity
A Structural Demythologizing of Facebook
Friday, October 9th, 2009Sorina Higgins wrote a wonderful essay on Facebook for her literary theory class and posted it on her blog and (ironically) on Facebook. She writes about how Facebook has its own mythological language in which it perpetuates fictions, but some of its fictions spill over into the physical world and become reality. The article ends […]
How to Deal with Technology Overload
Thursday, October 8th, 2009PBS MediaShift’s 5Across videocast (October 2009 episode) presents a discussion between Leif Hanson (a Regent alum friend of mine, founder of Spark Interaction, and presenter of SoulTech workshops), Dom Sagolla (one of the creators of Twitter), other technology/media experts and a psychologist. Great stuff. Credits and guest bios can be found here.