Representations of spirituality in digital culture
Greetings all! I am new to the Association of Internet Researchers and this listserv. I am already finding many useful insights and resources! Also being new to life after doctoral studies, I am now hoping to become active in research related to digital culture. As it stands, three general areas are of particular interest: 1) Representations of spirituality in virtual worlds 2) Ethnographic research on online religious communities 3) Formation of personal convictions in online environments and transfer (or lack thereof) to face-to-face environments I am hoping to identify individuals who have similar interests as well as current research projects that relate to one or more of these areas. Any and all insights would be much appreciated. Regards, Bernard Bernard Bull, M.A, M.L.S, Ed.D. Assistant Professor of Education Instructional Design Center, Director Concordia University Wisconsin Phone: 262-243-4595 Fax: 262-243-3595 bernard.bull@cuw.edu <mailto:bernard.bull@cuw.edu>
Hi Bernard, and welcome! If you haven't already had a look at the Special Theme II of the April, 2007 issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication - I would certainly recommend you do so. Among other many good papers, you will find there the work of at least one AoIR-ist who takes up these interests of yours - i.e., Heidi Campbell. There were also a number of _excellent_ presentations last week in Vancouver on various aspects of religious life online: you could review the Program - available as a PDF file linked from: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR8.0 and see who is doing what, and go from there. Heidi - and others, of course - may have still better suggestions for you, but this is at least a start. Enjoy - and g'luck! - charles ess Distinguished Research Professor, Global Studies Center <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University Springfield, MO 65802 USA Guest Professor (fall, 2007), Department of Media Studies Department of Media Studies IT Park Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Office: (45) 8942 9219 Mobile: (45) 2986 8967 President, Association of Internet Researchers <www.aoir.org> Co-Editor, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ijire.html Co-chair, CATaC conferences <www.catacconference.org> Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
I am new to the Association of Internet Researchers and this listserv. I am already finding many useful insights and resources!
Also being new to life after doctoral studies, I am now hoping to become active in research related to digital culture. As it stands, three general areas are of particular interest:
1) Representations of spirituality in virtual worlds
2) Ethnographic research on online religious communities
3) Formation of personal convictions in online environments and transfer (or lack thereof) to face-to-face environments
I am hoping to identify individuals who have similar interests as well as current research projects that relate to one or more of these areas. Any and all insights would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Bernard
Bernard Bull, M.A, M.L.S, Ed.D. Assistant Professor of Education
Instructional Design Center, Director
Concordia University Wisconsin
Phone: 262-243-4595
Fax: 262-243-3595
bernard.bull@cuw.edu <mailto:bernard.bull@cuw.edu>
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Bernard- Hi. Studying religion and the internet has been my primary area of research the past 10 years. My early work focused on ethnography in online religious communities and how members connected their online and offline experience. That work appears in a book Exploring Religious Community Online (Peter Lang, 2005). I have also written several pieces mapping the are of religion online studies (appearing in New Media & Society and The Information Society) and am currently doing work on religious authority online within blogs with an early version of this work appearing in the JCMC special issue Charles mentioned. A good resource is my blog "When Religion Meets New Media" which highlights my own work and seeks to serve as a hub and networking resource for other researchers doing similar studies: http://religionmeetsnewmedia.blogspot.com/ Also for work on religious ritual and the internet check out the work being done at the University of Heidlberg related to religion and second life: http://www.sl-research.de/ Cheers- Heidi Campbell Texas A&M University "Bull, Bernard" <Bernard.Bull@cuw.edu> wrote: Greetings all! I am new to the Association of Internet Researchers and this listserv. I am already finding many useful insights and resources! Also being new to life after doctoral studies, I am now hoping to become active in research related to digital culture. As it stands, three general areas are of particular interest: 1) Representations of spirituality in virtual worlds 2) Ethnographic research on online religious communities 3) Formation of personal convictions in online environments and transfer (or lack thereof) to face-to-face environments I am hoping to identify individuals who have similar interests as well as current research projects that relate to one or more of these areas. Any and all insights would be much appreciated. Regards, Bernard Bernard Bull, M.A, M.L.S, Ed.D. Assistant Professor of Education Instructional Design Center, Director Concordia University Wisconsin Phone: 262-243-4595 Fax: 262-243-3595 bernard.bull@cuw.edu _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Tryit now.
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Bull, Bernard -
Charles Ess -
Heidi Campbell