@book {1247,
	title = {Religion, Media, and Social Change},
	series = {Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture},
	year = {2014},
	publisher = {Routledge },
	organization = {Routledge },
	abstract = {In an era of heightened globalization, macro-level transformations in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of modern societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little attention has been paid to the growing influence of media and mass-mediated popular culture on contemporary religious sensibilities, life, and practice. Religion, Media, and Social Change explores the correlation between the study of religion, media, and popular culture and broader sociological theorizing on religious change. Contributions devote serious attention to broadly-defined media including technologies, institutions, and social and cultural environments, as well as mass-mediated popular culture such as film, music, television, and computer games. This interdisciplinary collection addresses important theoretical and methodological questions by connecting the study of media and popular culture to current perspectives, approaches, and discussions in the broader sociological study of religion.},
	keywords = {Digital Religion, Globalization, institutions, Online community, religious change, social change, socioeconomic modern societies, sociological study of religion, Technologies},
	url = {http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415742825/},
	author = {Kennet Granholm and Marcus Moberg and Sofia Sj{\"o}}
}
@book {1295,
	title = {The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press },
	organization = {Princeton University Press },
	abstract = {Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction.

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a variety of social and religious backgrounds, Marcia Inhorn shows how the new Arab man is self-consciously rethinking the patriarchal masculinity of his forefathers and unseating received wisdoms. This is especially true in childless Middle Eastern marriages where, contrary to popular belief, infertility is more common among men than women. Inhorn captures the marital, moral, and material commitments of couples undergoing assisted reproduction, revealing how new technologies are transforming their lives and religious sensibilities. And she looks at the changing manhood of husbands who undertake transnational "egg quests"--set against the backdrop of war and economic uncertainty--out of devotion to the infertile wives they love.

Trenchant and emotionally gripping, The New Arab Man traces the emergence of new masculinities in the Middle East in the era of biotechnology.},
	keywords = {Arab, Islam, male, Masculinities, men, Middle East, Muslim, stereotypes, Technologies},
	url = {http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9758.html},
	author = {Marcia C. Inhorn}
}
@article {150,
	title = {Technological modernization, the Internet, and religion in Singapore},
	journal = {Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication},
	year = {2007},
	abstract = {This study critically examines the ways in which technological modernization and religion co-exist and mutually reinforce one another within the Singaporean context. Interviews with religious leaders of a diverse set of faiths in Singapore about how they understand the role of information technology in religious practice reveal a broad-based acceptance of the Internet and other information technologies and little sense of a danger to religious faith. Contrary to the proposals of secularization theory, these findings suggest that various religious communities have adopted and in some cases embrace the Internet as part of their contemporary religious mission and strategy for growth. The findings further contribute to historical research on the social construction of technology and lend support to emergent research on the spiritual shaping of Internet technology by religious communities seeking to integrate the Internet into their everyday social and religious practices in wired contexts such as Singapore.
},
	keywords = {Faith, Singapore, Technologies},
	url = {http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/kluver.html},
	author = {Kluver, Randy}
}
@article {825,
	title = {The End of Cyberspace and Other Surprises},
	journal = {Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Worlds},
	volume = {12},
	year = {2006},
	chapter = {383},
	abstract = {This article reports on Web 2.0, the end of cyberspace, and the internet of things. It proposes that these concepts have synergies both with the current fashion for modifying physical objects with the features of virtual objects, as evidenced in O{\textquoteright}Reilly{\textquoteright}s MAKE magazine and similar projects, and with the potential technologies for collective intelligence described by Bruce Sterling, Adam Greenfield, Julian Bleecker and others. It considers Alex Pang{\textquoteright}s research on the end of cyberspace and asks whether the {\textquoteleft}new{\textquoteright} of new media writing will have any meaning in a world that is updated by the microsecond every time there is fresh activity in the system. },
	keywords = {cyberspace, media, Technologies},
	url = {http://www.google.com/url?sa=t\&rct=j\&q=\&esrc=s\&source=web\&cd=1\&ved=0CDIQFjAA\&url=http\%3A\%2F\%2Finstruct.uwo.ca\%2Fmit\%2F3771-001\%2FThe_End_Of_Cyberspace_and_Other_Surprises__Sue_Thomas.pdf\&ei=y_gCUY-sFcOy2wWv6YHYAw\&usg=AFQjCNERh2NDOFVfdMfiM73ReWSaj7aaEg\&bvm},
	author = {Thomas, S}
}
