@article {379, title = {New thoughts on the status of the religious Cyborg}, journal = {Journal of Technology, Theology \& Religion}, volume = {1}, year = {2010}, abstract = {This article suggests some implications of this development for the study of online religion. Drawing from a survey of literature from the fields of religious sociology and studies into the religious construction of both Internet and user, this paper outlines how the Cyborg has served as a metaphor for the study of online religion, and how that metaphor has been shaped in line with the aims and pursuits of researchers. The arrival of Web 2.0, however, calls us to rethink the relationship between technology and user, and hence new questions must be asked by researchers. This paper suggests what these questions may be.}, keywords = {cyborg, Religious sociology}, url = {http://www.techandreligion.com/Resources/Teusner\%20JTTR.pdf}, author = {Emerson Teusner, P} } @book {1249, title = {Christianity and the mass media in America : toward a democratic accommodation}, series = {Rhetoric and public affairs series.}, year = {2003}, publisher = {East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press}, organization = {East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press}, abstract = {Demonstrates how religion and the media in America have borrowed each other{\textquoteright}s rhetoric. In the process, they have also helped to keep each other honest, pointing out respective foibles and pretensions. Christian media have offered the public as well as religious tribes some of the best media criticism - better than most of the media criticism produced by mainstream media themselves. Meanwhile, mainstream media have rightly taken particular churches to task for misdeeds as well as offered some surprisingly good depictions of religious life}, keywords = {America, Christian media, communication research, media, media criticism, religion, religious life, Religious sociology, rhetoric}, url = {http://www.worldcat.org/title/christianity-and-the-mass-media-in-america-toward-a-democratic-accommodation/oclc/53045150/editions?referer=di\&editionsView=true}, author = {Quentin J Schultze} }