TY - BOOK T1 - Analyzing Media Texts T2 - Continuum Research Methods Series Y1 - 2003 A1 - Burns, Andrew A1 - Parker, David KW - data KW - media KW - multimodality KW - Social KW - theory AB - Andrew Burn and David Parker outline how multi-modality theory can be used to analyze texts which employ multiple semiotic modes and media, in such a way that a balanced consideration is given to the characteristics of each mode, how they integrate, and how they distribute textual functions between them. The methods are rooted in a view of significance as dependent on social context, and fulfilling the social and communicative interests of both producers of textual production and use contingent upon digital formats will also be a determining content of the analytical method. JF - Continuum Research Methods Series PB - Continuum CY - London UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=Oqn8TTphM5IC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=Burn,+A.+%26+Parker,+D.+%282003%29.+Analyzing+Media+Texts&source=bl&ots=tEOW5buDSD&sig=WAAVjudlOWBv6nIT89oE3mxCg5U&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Surveying Theoretical Approaches within Digital Religion Studies JF - New Media and Society Y1 - 2017 A1 - Campbell, H KW - Digital Religion KW - internet KW - mediation of meaning KW - mediatization KW - New Media KW - religion KW - religious–social shaping of technology KW - theory AB - This article provides an overview of the development of Digital Religion studies and the theoretical approaches frequently employed within this area. Through considering the ways and theories of mediatization, mediation of meaning, and the religious–social shaping of technology have been engaged and applied in studies of new media technologies, religion, and digital culture we see how Digital Religion studies has grown into a unique area of inquiry informed by both Internet studies and media, religion, and culture studies. Overall, it offers a concise summary of the current state of research inquiry within Digital Religion studies. VL - 19 UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444816649912 IS - 1 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Constituents of a Theory of Media T2 - Electronic Media and Technoculture Y1 - 2000 A1 - Enzensberger, H.M. ED - Caldwell, J.T. KW - Constituents KW - electronic KW - media KW - media theory KW - theory AB - Never before has the future been so systematically envisioned, aggressively analyzed, and grandly theorized as in the present rush to cyberspace and digitalization. In the mid-twentieth century, questions about media technologies and society first emerged as scholarly hand-wringing about the deleterious sweep of electronic media and information technologies in mass culture. Now, questions about new technologies and their social and cultural impact are no longer limited to intellectual soothsayers in the academy but are pervasive parts of day-to-day discourses in newspapers, magazines, television, and film. Electronic Media and Technoculture anchors contemporary discussion of the digital future within a critical tradition about the media arts, society, and culture. The collection examines a range of phenomena, from boutique cyber-practices to the growing ubiquity of e-commerce and the internet. The essays chart a critical field in media studies, providing a historical perspective on theories of new media. The contributors place discussions of producing technologies in dialogue with consuming technologies, new media in relation to old media, and argue that digital media should not be restricted to the constraining public discourses of either the computer, broadcast, motion-picture, or internet industries. The collection charts a range of theoretical positions to assist readers interested in new media and to enable them to weather the cycles of hardware obsolescence and theoretical volatility that characterize the present rush toward digital technologies. JF - Electronic Media and Technoculture PB - Rutgers University Press CY - New Brunswick UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=n1QqHWAlmF4C&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=Constituents+of+a+Theory+of+Media+by+Enzensberger+in+Electronic+Media+and+Technoculture&source=bl&ots=BEsekeBaWI&sig=GUlPt4HPCAmlPqQlIgZZNSe-PIA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m0ljUO-6M6Ke2QWc9IHIBQ&ved=0CC ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Considering Critical Methods and Theoretical Lenses in Digital Religion Studies JF - New Media and Society Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lövheim, M A1 - Campbell, H KW - Digital Religion KW - internet KW - media technologies KW - methodology KW - religion KW - theory AB - This article introduces a special issue on critical methods and theoretical lenses in Digital Religion studies, through contextualising them within research trajectories found in this emerging field. By starting from the assertion that current “fourth-wave of research on religion and the Internet,” is focused on how religious actors negotiate the relationships between multiple spheres of their online and offline lives, article authors spotlight key theoretical discussions and methodological approaches occurring within this interdisciplinary area of inquiry. It concludes with notable methodological and theoretical challenges in need of further exploration. Together it demonstrates how religion is practiced and reimagined within digital media spaces, and how such analysis can contribute to broader understanding of the social and cultural changes new media technologies are facilitating within society. VL - 19 UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444816649911 IS - 1 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Theoretical Framework for Approaching Religion and New Media T2 - Digital Religion: Understand Religious Practice in New Media Worlds Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lundby, Knut KW - method KW - theory JF - Digital Religion: Understand Religious Practice in New Media Worlds PB - Routledge CY - London UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=ox4q7T59KikC&pg=PA225&dq=Digital+Religion+Theory+Knut+Lundby&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Mo8EUeWGC6jzygHJ5oDgDQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Digital%20Religion%20Theory%20Knut%20Lundby&f=false ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Malaysian Christians Online: Online/Offline Networks of Everyday Religion T2 - Post-Privacy Culture: Gaining Social Power in Cyber-Democracy Y1 - 2013 A1 - Meng Yoe Tan KW - Actor KW - Christian KW - malaysian KW - network KW - Online KW - theory AB - Religion has already found its footing in cyberspace. Countless websites promoting particular religious organisations and ideals are easily found within a click or two online. Blogs are now an outlet for religious and spiritual discussion for different groups and individuals. Due to the relatively unfiltered nature of the Internet, it is more possible for new types of religious expressions to surface for public consumption, even if some of these expressions might not conform to conventional notions of spiritual expression. All of these new forms of online religion then, serve as a gateway to study different models and contexts of religious expression. A website, however, is in many ways only the expressed product. What about the dynamics behind these expressions? Because the online and the offline are inseparable entities, both simultaneously interact with and influence the individual’s identity and expression. This means that in order to further develop an understanding of ‘online religion’, the ‘offline’ must also be described extensively. Using two case studies of Malaysian Christian bloggers, this chapter demonstrates how with the use of Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) methods, it is possible to seamlessly describe everyday cyber-activity and everyday Christianity in relation to one another, thus providing a snapshot of how the larger context and framework in which Christianity in today’s day and age can be better understood. JF - Post-Privacy Culture: Gaining Social Power in Cyber-Democracy PB - Inter-Disciplinary Press CY - United Kingdom UR - https://www.interdisciplinarypress.net/online-store/digital-humanities/post-privacy-culture-gaining-social-power-in-cyber-democracy U1 - Maj, Anna ER -