Digital Media: When God Becomes Everybody—The Blurring of Sacred and Profane

Tsuria, Ruth

doi:10.3390/rel12020110

Cited by 11 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 32 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The utilisation of social media groups as the main access to communication also needs to be filled with content that is in accordance with noble religious values. These actions are carried out in order to support the strengthening of people's Islamic understanding and support religious digital literacy (Tsuria, 2021). Vol.…”

Section: Findings Religious Literacy Practices Through the Utilisatio...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious Digital Literacy of Urban Muslim Society in Indonesia: A Systematic Literature Review

Athoillah,

Ashari,

Alauddin

2023

Akademika

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The current era of disruption is marked with the rapid flow of information on the internet, including religious content. The emergence of the internet clearly has a positive influence although there is also a negative impact. This article aims to determine the use of information and communication technology products in the context of religious literacy and religious digital literacy in urban communities in Indonesia. This research is a library research with a systematic literature review (SLR) approach. Sources of data in this study came from books and journal articles with a reputation in accordance with the theme or content of the discussion, totaling 58 references and published in the last 5 years. The analysis technique uses content analysis. The findings from the results of this study are that information and communication technology products have been widely used in many sectors of human life, including religion. Users who have gadgets or laptops (PCs) make it a tool for accessing religious content with the help of the internet. This is influenced by the dependence on the internet and a variety of religious content that is increasingly massively spread in cyberspace, especially for urban Muslim communities. Religious digital literacy can be used as a real solution to educate the public about access to digital information. This digital literacy can be used as a provision and foundation for someone to face the current digital era, so that they are not only able to access and find information. But more than that, it is hoped that information can also be validated by referring to the source of origin.

show abstract

Section: Findings Religious Literacy Practices Through the Utilisatio...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious Digital Literacy of Urban Muslim Society in Indonesia: A Systematic Literature Review

Athoillah,

Ashari,

Alauddin

2023

Akademika

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Following Habermas (2008) and Josephson-Storm (2017), Singler shows how even in secular, scientific, and technologicallybased societies, enchantment is an active way humans use to engage and understand their surroundings. Even if we hold that Western society has gone through a time of disenchantment, Delio (2020) argues that AI and other digital media have helped us re-enchant our lives, an argument that I have also made (Tsuria, 2021).…”

Section: -7-ai and Religion: The Voice Of God In Everyday Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking tools for AI, Religion & Culture

2023

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“Thinking Tools for AI, Religion and Culture” seeks to raise key ethical questions and issue culturally informed provocations that are currently missing in most current popular media discussions about humanity and artificial intelligence. This edited collection brings together a diverse group of female scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, religious contexts and seven different countries who offer series of thought-provoking, religiously- informed, and ethical reflections on current debates around AI. Our aim is to create a curated and enlightened conversation, which moves beyond the extremes of fear or mere acceptance of our future with AI, and in doing so illuminate new and missing perspectives that broaden the current public discourse around ethics and AI.

show abstract

“…From the perspective of theological theories, David's creation represents the quintessence of the human defying and redefining the divine while assuming the creator's role (Foerst, 2009). In the 20th-century context, where technology becomes the new religion and the border between the progress of Artificial Intelligence and the divine is blurred, the much-promised technological Eden remains surrounded Cringuta Irina Pelea 12/22 by the fear of dehumanization and extinction, which never stray far from the mind (Tsuria, 2021).…”

Section: David: Android or Post-human?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mirroring Cultural Fear, Anxiety and Dystopia in American Cinematography: The Movie “A.I.” (2001)

Pelea

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Mirroring Cultural Fear, Anxiety and Dystopia in American Cinematography: The Movie A.I. (2001)Through this essay, we aim to provide a sociological and cultural analysis of how the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, directed by Steven Spielberg, explores the subconscious and culturally specific Western fear of humanoid robots. While the background of the story tackles the problematics of the multilevel emotional relationship between robots and humans, the movie’s dystopian and apocalyptic discourse feeds the Western public’s increasing technophobia, by encompassing “fear” in its philosophical, social and cultural dimensions: “the loss of humanity,” “the imminence of disaster,” and “the apocalyptic and irreversible destruction of Earth.”Moreover, the film goes beyond the mere depiction of technophobia while subtly addressing some worldwide contemporary problems of high interest, such as pollution, starvation, overpopulation, or nature’s destruction on a global scale. In this eschatological, hopeless and post-human scenario, the depiction of David as a robot child expressing his eternal love for his distant adoptive human parents metaphorically illustrates the continuous altering of traditional human kinship, robotization, and alienation of the human race, which is on the verge of being enslaved by the technological wrath. However, David makes an allegorical transition from symbolizing the fearful Otherness to bringing the redemption of humanity’s vestige and marking the survival of the human species, albeit in a radically altered form: He becomes “the new human.” Reflectând frica de natură culturală, anxietatea și distopia în cinematografia americană: filmul A.I. (2001) În acest eseu vom încerca să inițiem o analiză culturală și sociologică a modului în care filmul “A.I. Inteligență Artificială” de Steven Spielberg exploră frica de natură culturală și subconștientă, tipic vestică, față de roboții umanoizi. La nivel principial, narațiunea face referire la problematica relației emoționale și multifațetate dintre oameni și roboți, iar discursul apocaliptic și distopic al filmului hrănește tehnofobia publicului occidental, reflectând și cuprinzând frica în dimensiunile sale culturale, sociale și filozofice: “pierderea umanității”, “iminența dezastrului” și “distrugerea ireversibilă și apocaliptică a Pământului”.Mai mult, filmul depășește limitele descriptive ale tehnofobiei, adresând subtil și alte probleme contemporane de interes global precum poluarea, foametea, suprapopularea sau distrugerea naturii pe o scală planetară. În acest scenariu escatologic și lipsit de speranță, prezența și descrierea lui David asemeni unui copil robot care își exprimă dragostea imuabilă față de părinții săi umani, adoptivi, dar distanți, ilustrează metaforic alterarea perpetuă a relațiilor familiale tradiționale, așadar robotizarea și alienarea acestei rase umane pe punctul de a se converti în sclavul mirajului tehnologic. Cu toate acestea, David parcurge o tranziție alegorică de la a reprezenta simbolul Celuilalt, de care ne este frică, la a fi Cel care aduce izbăvirea omenirii și marchează, într-o formă nonconformistă, supraviețuirea speciei umane: el devine “noul om”. Strach kulturowy. Lęk i dystopia w kinematografii amerykańskiej. Film A.I. (2001) W niniejszym eseju podejmuję próbę analizy kulturowej i socjologicznej sposobu w jaki film A.I. Sztuczna inteligencja Stevena Spielberga wykorzystuje temat typowego dla Zachodu, kulturowego i podświadomego strachu przed robotami o ludzkich kształtach. Narracja filmowa zasadniczo odwołuje się do kwestii wielowymiarowych relacji emocjonalnych pomiędzy ludzkimi robotami, zaś proponowany apokaliptyczny i dystopijny dyskurs podsyca technofobię zachodniej widowni, ukazując strach w jego wymiarze kulturowym, społecznym i filozoficznym: „zatracenie człowieczeństwa”, „nieuchronność katastrofy” i „nieuniknione zniszczenie Ziemi o charakterze apokalipsy”.Co więcej, film wykracza poza granice opisowe technofobii, nawiązując umiejętnie do globalnych problemów współczesnego świata, takich jak: zanieczyszczenie środowiska, klęski głodu, przeludnienie czy degradacja przyrody w skali planetarnej. W tym eschatologicznym i pozbawionym nadziei scenariuszu postać Davida sportretowanego jako dziecko-robot, które niezmiennie deklaruje swoją miłość do ludzkich – adopcyjnych i wstrzemięźliwych – rodziców, jest metaforyczną ilustracją postępującego rozkładu więzi rodzinnych, robotyzacji i alienacji rasy ludzkiej, będącej o krok od tego, by stała się niewolnikiem technologicznego złudzenia. Mimo tych wszystkich zagrożeń David przeżywa alegoryczną przemianę: z symboliczego, budzącego strach Obcego zamienia się w kogoś niosącego ratunek ludzkości i zapewniającego, na sposób nonkonformistyczny, przetrwanie gatunku ludzkiego – staje się „nowym człowiekiem”.

show abstract

Digital Media: When God Becomes Everybody—The Blurring of Sacred and Profane

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Religious Digital Literacy of Urban Muslim Society in Indonesia: A Systematic Literature Review

Religious Digital Literacy of Urban Muslim Society in Indonesia: A Systematic Literature Review

Thinking tools for AI, Religion & Culture

Mirroring Cultural Fear, Anxiety and Dystopia in American Cinematography: The Movie “A.I.” (2001)

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About