Full Description
Theological Discourses on Social Media will examine ten different social media platforms across three overarching parts. The task throughout is, first, to delineate the configuration and intent of a given form of social media and, second, to probe its implications for theology. On the whole, the volume will focus on the Judeo-Christian tradition, though dialogue with and insight from other religious traditions will also be featured. The upshot will be a unique theological engagement with the defining issue of our era—a work that will be as relevant as it will be engrossing. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, it will be a must-read for all students of theology, religion and media, and cultural studies.
Contents
PART 1: Social Networks 1. Attention Online: Christian Practice and Facebook Living 2. Twitter as Cybernetic Liberalism: The Apotheosis of Disincarnate Humanity 3. Tinderization and Transcendence: Girard, McLuhan, and the Apocalyptic Imagination PART 2: Media Sharing 4. "You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me": The Technological Structuring of the imago Dei on Instagram 5. "Despairing of Creation": Snapchat, Body Dysmorphia, and Creatio ex Nihilo 6. Is Your "For You" Page Really For You?: TikTok, the Human Person, and Living With Social Media 7. YouTube and Christian Formation: Discerning Christ and World PART 3: Collaborative Knowledge and Virtual Reality 8. The Ghostly Voice: Reddit, Digital Space, and the Objectification of Lived Experience 9. Wikipedia and the Unknowable 10. Avatar: Gaming and Living as "Through a Glass, Darkly" 11. Meta Horizon Worlds: From Virtual Reality to Preferred Reality
