05-21-14 - iGods
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- Category: Authors
- Published: Tuesday, 20 May 2014 07:00
A Christian perspective on navigating today's social media culture. Click here for Brock's interview with Craig Detweiler, author of "iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives" from this week's Wednesday Bookmark, brought to you by Salem Storehouse!
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Today the world is literally at our fingertips. We can call, text, email, or post our status to friends and family on the go. We can carry countless games, music, and apps in our pocket. Yet it's easy to feel overwhelmed by access to so much information and exhausted from managing our online relationships and selves.
Craig Detweiler, a nationally known writer and speaker on media issues, provides needed Christian perspective on navigating today's social media culture. He interacts with major symbols, or "iGods," of our distracted age--Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Pixar, YouTube, and Twitter--to investigate the impact of the technologies and cultural phenomena that drive us. Detweiler offers a historic look at where we've been and a prophetic look at where we're headed, helping us sort out the immediate from the eternal, the digital from the divine.
About the Author
Dr. Craig Detweiler directs the Center for Entertainment, Media and Culture at Pepperdine University. He's a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Davidson College and earned an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's acclaimed film school. His newest book is iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives. Detweiler also edited the first book on theology and video games, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Game with God. His previous book, Into the Dark, searches for the sacred amidst the top-ranked films on the Internet Movie Database.
Craig's cultural commentary has appeared on ABC's Nightline, CNN, Fox News, Al Jazeera, NPR, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. As a filmmaker, his documentaries build bridges across cultures from the comedic Purple State of Mind to (un)Common Sounds: Peace Through Music. He blogs as 'Doc Hollywood' for Patheos.com and is @craigdetweiler on Twitter.
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