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{"title":"A Review of Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring","authors":"Kimberly Meltzer","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2015.1116276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2015.1116276","url":null,"abstract":"“Information infrastructure is politics,” write the authors of this book (p. 87). Philip Howard and Muzammil Hussain have crafted a data-driven and well-reasoned account of the interplay among information and communication technologies, civil society actors, authoritarian regimes, and the political uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa—what has become known as “the Arab Spring.” Many will find the crux of their argument to be sensible: neither social media and mobile technologies alone, nor civil society actors alone, caused the succession of political revolutions across the region since December 2010. Rather, the explanations are conjoined, and the book is about “the context of political mobilization” in Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, Morocco, and 16 other countries. In other words, this is a study of what the affordances of digital technologies enabled people to do. But here for all who are not technological determinists, this is a story about how people made use of technology, which was not a given. As Howard and Hussain put it, “digital media helped to accelerate the pace of revolution and build its constituency” (p. 18). The very important and complicated description of the methods used to collect and analyze the Twitter and blog data on which the book bases its claims can be found, after searching, in the Notes at the end of the book. Data were collected by Howard’s Project on Information Technology and Political Islam (www.pitpi.org) based at the University of Washington and funded by the National Science Foundation and Intel. The data analyzed span November 2010 to May 2011. Although it does not go into as much depth or detail on all of the countries, the book compares features and outcomes across 22 countries within the region. This alone is impressive, and a feat difficult to achieve for all but experts and insiders. Chapter 1 provides a recap of the sequence of events during the Arab Spring, highlighting the major moments, particularly where digital media had a role. Chapter 2 of the book provides a brief historical overview of the various technological environments and activism in the years leading up to the Arab Spring. The data analysis of the structure, sources, and content of digital media use on the part of activists and citizens during the Arab Spring is found in chapter 3. This is focused on Tunisia and then Egypt, with discussion of the roles played by Twitter,","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"106 1","pages":"245 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73326356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The PowerPoint and the Glory: An Ethnography of Pulpit Media and Its Organizational Impacts","authors":"M. Ward","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2015.1047722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2015.1047722","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars of religious communication are vitally interested in the impacts of media on religion. At the same time, scholars of organizational communication have intensely studied the impacts of media on organizations. Since much religious communication occurs in organizational settings, the literature on the organization-media interface offers productive frameworks for analyzing the religion-media interface. This article draws from the author's ethnographic fieldwork to narrate four cases of evangelical churches whose radically different uses of PowerPoint for worship and leadership communication are driven by their respective organizational identities and impact congregational dynamics in divergent ways. PowerPoint, though a simple technology, inhabits the churches' sacred space and amplifies their central discourse. The cases are analyzed via frameworks from organization studies to elicit how the churches' PowerPoint usage transforms organizational hierarchies and processes, dynamically interacts with organizational structuration, and indicates degrees to which adoption of a media technology reflects and shapes Habermasian technical reasoning.","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"134 1","pages":"175 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73743184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EOV Editorial Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2015.1131027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2015.1131027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"47 1","pages":"248 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86802668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Characterizations of Feminism in Reformed Christian Online Media","authors":"V. Hobbs","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2015.1116267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2015.1116267","url":null,"abstract":"The term “culture war” is often used to describe the relationship between evangelical Christianity and movements like feminism. Given the increasing dependence of religious groups on online media, analysis of the discourse therein offers an effective means of examining patterns within Christian discourse about feminism. The current study examines a corpus of 147 articles from a popular online North American Reformed Christian news site, focusing on what feminism is most frequently associated with and counterexamples to these characterizations. Feminism was consistently connected with false theology, breakdown of marriage/traditional gender roles, promiscuity and nontraditional sexuality, abortion, anti-Christian cultural change, and liberal politics. However, a minority of dissenting voices suggests that some are allowed to express cautious support of feminism.","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"67 1","pages":"211 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89102235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Mediatization of Buddhism in Digital Media: The Contemporary Reflection of Uisang's Hwaom Thought","authors":"D. Jin","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2015.1116265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2015.1116265","url":null,"abstract":"By employing the core elements of mediatization theory with specific reference to the mediatization of religion, this article attempts to understand how Buddhism-based digital media reflect religious philosophy emphasizing nonviolence and meditation. It discusses the mediatization of Buddhism in digital media, including video games, in order to analyze whether the nexus of these two different areas can develop a new type of mediatization, which is termed religious-tainment, characterized as both entertaining and meditative. It analyzes two digital media genres—movies (Avatar) and video games (Journey). It especially cultivates discourse in mapping out the adaption of Uisang's Hwaom Thought developed in Korea, which has been eloquently articulated in Haein Do, in digital media. It then delivers the hybridization of Hwaom Thought and digital media as one of the most significant influences of media in the realm of religion because mediatization also closely relates to cultural globalization, known as hybridity.","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"11 1","pages":"196 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79604675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mediatization of Religion: How the Indonesian Muslim Diasporas Mediatized Islamic Practices","authors":"Yearry Panji Setianto","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2015.1116268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2015.1116268","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the process of mediatization of religion in the context of how Indonesian Muslim diasporas in the United States are using media to mediatize Islamic practices. Using ethnographic observation of the Indonesian Muslim Society in America (IMSA) and their media activities, this study found Islamic practices are mediatized to deal with several issues that are faced by this minority group. IMSA's media-related activities, such as Radio IMSA and Tele-Halaqa, have helped this diasporic community to practice Islamic rituals as well as to find Islamic resources, especially since their religious authorities may not always be physically available. These research findings may challenge the common assumption of the mediatization of religion theory, which argues that the media could encourage secularization. For Indonesian Muslim diasporas, dependency upon media for religious practices does not make this community more secular, but makes them more religious.","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"38 1","pages":"230 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77413923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teaching Religion and Media: Syllabi and Pedagogy","authors":"G. Perreault","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2013.791548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2013.791548","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the pedagogy of Religion and Media. The topic has garnered growing attention in recent years (Stout, 2012) and the sheer array of classes is a testament to its status as a lively growing topic. This study takes a nonnormative, exploratory approach to uncover four key categorical approaches to how the topic of religion and media is taught in universities. The methodology included a textual analysis of 48 syllabi and interviews with professors who teach religion and media.","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"66 1","pages":"128 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86905942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New Fields Deserve New Pedagogies: Using Drama in the Basic Course on Media and Religion","authors":"Daniel A. Stout","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2013.791583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2013.791583","url":null,"abstract":"This essay discusses drama or how a play is used to teach fundamental concepts of the media-religion interface. Drama, as a participative learning technique is similar to the case study method, but has additional benefits. Using the play, Ghosts of Galileo, the author describes actual experiences with students as they learn from a story, and deal with dilemmas by projecting themselves into the roles of characters in the narrative. While students are often ambivalent about discussing sensitive issues related to religion in the conventional classroom format, they are more comfortable doing so in the context of a story. How to use the play as a readers' theater or fully staged play is explained.","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"2 1","pages":"167 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82981940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Time to “Get” Religion? An Analysis of Religious Literacy Among Journalism Students","authors":"Jeremy Littau","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2015.1080081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2015.1080081","url":null,"abstract":"A survey (N = 503) tested religious knowledge for journalism students and nonjournalism students. Journalism students scored poorly on basic religious knowledge and fared no better than nonjournalism students. When advertising and public relations majors were added to the journalism majors to create a new mass communication major variable, that group scored higher than students studying something else. Within the mass communication major, there were differences by chosen field, with photojournalism, print journalism, and public relations students scoring highest. The results indicate that while journalism students and nonjournalism students agree on the need for journalists to have religious literacy, journalism schools are falling short of making sure journalistic training is resulting in proper levels of religious literacy.","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"10 1","pages":"145 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87530170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"All Work and All Play: Using Games to Teach Religion and Media","authors":"J. Ferré","doi":"10.1080/15348423.2013.791582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2013.791582","url":null,"abstract":"To help students learn the concepts, personages, and events central to a course on religion and media, students were charged with designing a board game or a card game that employed this information. They drew from required books and documentaries, which the instructor chose for breadth and inclusiveness, focusing on both print and electronic media as well as on Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The games were evaluated according to the appeal and educational value of the game design, the clarity and coherence of the written instructions, and the accuracy, significance, and comprehensiveness of the knowledge tested. The assignment helped maximize the time students spent thinking about key information in the course. It also provided the instructor with games that students in future classes can play to help them learn terms central to the study of media and religion.","PeriodicalId":55954,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media and Religion","volume":"56 1","pages":"160 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86276656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}