@article {1926,
	title = {Cheong, P. H. (2014). Tweet the Message? Religious Authority and Social Media Innovation. Journal of Religion, Media \& Digital Culture, 3(3), 2{\textendash}19.},
	journal = {Religion, Media, and Digital Culture},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {1-19},
	abstract = {Religious believers have historically adapted Scripture into brief texts for wider
dissemination through relatively inexpensive publications. The emergence of Twitter and other microblogging tools today afford clerics a platform for real time information sharing with its interface for short written texts, which includes providing links to graphics and sound recordings that can be forwarded and responded to by others. This paper discusses emergent practices in tweet authorship which embed and are inspired by sacred Scripture, in order to deepen understanding of the changing nature of sacred texts and of the constitution of religious authority as pastors engage microblogging and social media networks. Drawing upon a Twitter feed by a prominent Christian megachurch leader with global influence, this paper identifies multiple ways in which tweets have been encoded to quote, remix and interpret Scripture, and to serve as choice aphorisms that reflect or are inspired by Scripture. Implications for the changing nature of sacred digital texts and the reconstruction of religious authority are also discussed.},
	keywords = {Bible, pastors, religious authority, Singapore, social media, Twitter},
	url = {http://jrmdc.com/papers-archive/volume-3-issue-3-december-2014/},
	author = {Cheong, Pauline Hope}
}
@book {221,
	title = {Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media},
	year = {2004},
	publisher = {University Press of America},
	organization = {University Press of America},
	address = {Landham, Maryland},
	abstract = {In Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media, Charles Ess collects contemporary scholarship to address the question: What does critical thinking about the Bible mean as the Bible is _transmediated_ from print to electronic formats? This volume, the first of its kind, is made up of contributions originally developed for a conference sponsored by the American Bible Society. Ess provides a collection grounded in a wide diversity of religious traditions and academic disciplines--philosophy, biblical studies, theology, feminism, aesthetics, communication theory, and media studies. His introduction summarizes the individual chapters and develops their broader significance for contemporary debates regarding media, postmodernism, and the possible relationships between faith and reason},
	keywords = {Bible, New Media},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=Ak-IYZaBFK4C\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false},
	author = {Ess, Charles}
}
@inbook {143,
	title = {Bible Reading and Critical Thinking},
	booktitle = {Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {77-94},
	publisher = {University Press of America},
	organization = {University Press of America},
	address = {Landham, MD},
	abstract = {In Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media, Charles Ess collects contemporary scholarship to address the question: What does critical thinking about the Bible mean as the Bible is _transmediated_ from print to electronic formats? This volume, the first of its kind, is made up of contributions originally developed for a conference sponsored by the American Bible Society. Ess provides a collection grounded in a wide diversity of religious traditions and academic disciplines--philosophy, biblical studies, theology, feminism, aesthetics, communication theory, and media studies. His introduction summarizes the individual chapters and develops their broader significance for contemporary debates regarding media, postmodernism, and the possible relationships between faith and reason.},
	keywords = {Bible, Critical thinking, postmodernism},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=BbabHjKHGE0C\&pg=PA77\&lpg=PA77\&dq=Bible+Reading+and+Critical+Thinking+Hardmeier\&source=bl\&ots=aN0NlENhsf\&sig=33jdVzCpd2VI_4Q8NTU_ki8Cu7I\&hl=en\&ei=RXOwTrLLI4atsAK76M3CAQ\&sa=X\&oi=book_result\&ct=result\&resnum=1\&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA},
	author = {Hardmier, Chris}
}
