TY - CHAP T1 - Texting the Faith: Religious Users and Cell Phone Culture T2 - The cell phone reader. Essays in social transformation Y1 - 2006 A1 - Heidi Campbell KW - cell phone KW - Faith KW - religious KW - Texting AB - The Cell Phone Reader offers a diverse, eclectic set of essays that examines how this rapidly evolving technology is shaping new media cultures, new forms of identity, and media-centered relationships. The contributors focus on a range of topics, from horror films to hip-hop, from religion to race, and draw examples from across the globe. The Cell Phone Reader provides a road map for both scholars and beginning students to examine the profound social, cultural and international impact of this small device. JF - The cell phone reader. Essays in social transformation PB - Peter Lang CY - New York UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=U8uOkAp998IC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false U1 - A. Kavoori, N. Archeaux ER - TY - JOUR T1 - "What hath God wrought”: Considering how religious communities culture (or kosher) the cell phone JF - Continuum: Journal of Media and Culture Y1 - 2007 A1 - Heidi Campbell KW - cell phone KW - Israel KW - kosher phone KW - Orthodox Judaism KW - religion VL - 21 UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10304310701269040 IS - 2 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - How the iPhone became divine: Blogging, religion and intertextuality JF - New Media and Society Y1 - 2010 A1 - Heidi Campbell A1 - Antonio LaPastina KW - blogs KW - cell phone KW - fandom KW - intertexuality KW - iPhone KW - Jesus phone KW - religion KW - religious discourse KW - technology AB - This article explores the labeling of the iPhone as the ‘Jesus phone’ in order to demonstrate how religious metaphors and myth can be appropriated into popular discourse and shape the reception of a technology. We consider the intertextual nature of the relationship between religious language, imagery and technology and demonstrate how this creates a unique interaction between technology fans and bloggers, news media and even corporate advertising. Our analysis of the ‘Jesus phone’ clarifies how different groups may appropriate the language and imagery of another to communicate very different meanings and intentions. Intertextuality serves as a framework to unpack the deployment of religion to frame technology and meanings communicated. We also reflect on how religious language may communicate both positive and negative aspects of a technology and instigate an unintentional trajectory in popular discourse as it is employed by different audiences, both online and offline. VL - 12 UR - http://nms.sagepub.com/content/12/7/1191 IS - 7 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media JF - Annual Review of Anthropology Y1 - 2010 A1 - Coleman, E. G. KW - cell phone KW - Communication KW - computers KW - Ethnography AB - his review surveys and divides the ethnographic corpus on digital me dia into three broad but overlapping categories: the cultural politics of digital media, the vernacular cultures of digital media, and the pro saics of digital media. Engaging these three categories of scholarship on digital media, I consider how ethnographers are exploring the com plex relationships between the local practices and global implications of digital media, their materiality and politics, and their banal, as well as profound, presence in cultural life and modes of communication. I consider the way these media have become central to the articulation of cherished beliefs, ritual practices, and modes of being in the world; the fact that digital media culturally matters is undeniable but showing how, where, and why it matters is necessary to push against peculiarly arrow presumptions about the universality of digital experience. VL - 39 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Forbidden Fork, the Cell Phone Holocaust, and Other Haredi Encounters with Technology JF - Contemporary Jewry Y1 - 2009 A1 - Nathaniel Deutsch KW - cell phone KW - Haredim KW - Hasidim KW - Holocaust KW - internet KW - Israel KW - Modernity KW - technology KW - Ultra-Orthodox Jews AB - Haredi Jews valorize tradition and explicitly reject the idea of progress on ideological grounds. Concomitantly, they are opposed to many innovations and are highly critical of the destructive potential of modern communication technologies such as cell phones with Internet capability that serve as pocket-sized portals between their insular communities and the wider world. In response to this perceived threat, Haredi authorities have issued bans on the use of certain technologies and have endorsed the development of acceptable alternatives, such as the so-called kosher cell phone. And yet, many Haredim, both in the United States and Israel, are highly sophisticated users and purveyors of these same technologies. This tension indicates that Haredim have a much more complicated relationship to technology and to modernity, itself, than their ‘‘official’’ stance would suggest. VL - 29 UR - http://www.nabilechchaibi.com/resources/Deutsch.pdf ER - TY - JOUR T1 - iReligion JF - Studies in World Christianity Y1 - 2011 A1 - Emerson Teusner, P A1 - Torma, R KW - cell phone KW - Christianity KW - online religions AB - This article aims to present a model for investigating the capacity of mobile devices to frame religious experience by the creation, consumption and distribution of religious media text. Exploring three iPhone religious ‘apps’, this article will consider how the iPhone frames religious information and privileges aesthetic styles, which affects how users of the device connect with religious media text and other users. This exploration offers insights into how the iPhone as an object, together with the metaphors and symbols that are incumbent with it, frame religious experience and participation. VL - 17 UR - http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/swc.2011.0017 IS - 2 ER -