By Benedikt J. Kastner When consuming different media like magazines, newspapers, advertising, television, film and literature, the reader/spectator tunes into a diverse range of concepts of self-optimization, individual fulfillment and […]
By Patrick M. Johnson The other weekend, I will admit, I became one of the latest additions to the growing zombie-like population playing the augmented reality game, Pokémon Go. While […]
American religious authority and the media have always had an ambiguous relationship. American Cultural Protestantism (which tends to define both Protestant and Catholic domestic values) has held within it an […]
This summer I stumbled upon a dangerous addiction. It was a strange universe where Kim Kardashian was my spontaneous best friend, fame was on the other side of a cute […]
In my prior blog post, I covered two of six themes interwoven with the issue of religion and digital media in terms of the Sewol Ferry Disaster: 1) hyper-connectivity in and […]
“Woe to the researchers writing with delight in the face of catastrophe, saying “it’s time!”, to those who want to be an author.” -Quoted from a Korean Facebook user in […]
In a previous blog, I noted society’s uneasy relationship between material things and the sacred in places of cultural and historical interest. The outrage over the Ten Commandments monument at […]
Many of you readers of this blog have heard our Fellows of the Center talk about Third Spaces of Digital Religion. This is part of an ongoing research project, spearheaded by […]
When South Korea acquired a great opportunity to renew its global image by means of co-hosting the 2002 World Cup with Japan, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, with the […]
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