Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader

Lynch, Gordon; Mitchell, Joseph C.; Strhan, Anna

doi:10.4324/9780203805657

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“…This neglect of religion and spirituality within cultural studies first came under attack within the interdisciplinary field of media, religion, and culture which advocates the need for a broader understanding of the meaning making and mediated qualities of religion, and of the religious qualities of the media (De Vries and Weber 2001;Hoover, 2006;Hoover and Lundby, 1997;Lynch et al, 2011;Morgan, 2008;Stolow, 2005;Sumiala, 2013). Through providing productive new analytical emphasis on people's changing relationship to transcendent and existential dimensions in life, focus is directed toward uncharted and vernacular forms of existential meaning making, also in the realm of digital media (cf.…”

Section: Existence: From Deficit To Precedencementioning

confidence: 99%

Existential media: Toward a theorization of digital thrownness

Lagerkvist

2016

New Media & Society

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Our digitally enforced lifeworld is an existential and ambivalent terrain. Questions concerning digital technologies are thus questions about human existence. This theoretical essay employs key concepts from existential philosophy to envision an existential media analysis that accounts for the thrownness of digital human existence. Tracing our digital thrownness to four emergent fields of inquiry, that relate to classic themes (death, time, being there, and being-in-and-with-the-world), it encircles both mundane connectivity and the extraordinary limit-situations (online) when our human vulnerability is principally felt and our security is shaken. In place of a savvy user, this article posits the "exister" as the principal subject in media studies and inhabitant of the digital ecology-a stumbling, hurting, and relational human being, who navigates within limits and among interruptions through the torrents of our digital existence, in search for meaning and existential security.

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Section: Existence: From Deficit To Precedencementioning

confidence: 99%

Existential media: Toward a theorization of digital thrownness

Lagerkvist

2016

New Media & Society

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“…Nowadays, any attempt to study religion will of necessity also consider the media through which it is manifested, since the media have become an important source of religious information and a platform for canvasing and defending one's faith (Lynch, Mitchell & Strhan, 2012). So the media landscape can often become a contested space for disparate religious persuasions.…”

Section: Contextualising the Nexusmentioning

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“…Although they draw some distinction between "old" and "new" media (p.9) they highlight the transmedial nature of the modern media such that content flows easily from one media form to another. These distinctions from the academic viewpoint may not always reflect the perspectives of media consumers (Lynch, Mitchell & Strhan, 2012). It therefore suffices for the purpose of this article that I take a broad view of the media.…”

Section: Contextualising the Nexusmentioning

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Mediatized Spirituality: A Critical Appraisal of the Media-Religion Nexus in Nigeria

Nwankwo

2017

Ro. J. Comm. & PR

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Religion in Nigeria is predominantly manifested in three identifiable forms: Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religion. All three forms, but especially the first two, have in recent years embraced the “media logic,” packaging religious experience in ways that appeal to the media. These religions have adopted the media as platforms for worship, proselytization, image-building and investment. Thus, religion in Nigeria has come under the grip of mediatization, giving rise to a mediatized spiritual experience. This paper contends that the strong infusion of the media into religious life in Nigeria could have both positive and negative implications for society. It advocates a responsible use of the media to curtail the purveyance of hate, incendiary and predatory messages.

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“…6.See also Morgan (2008); Hoover and Clark (2002); Lynch, Mitchell, and Strhan (2012). On “religion as media,” see Stolow (2005:125); see also de Vries (2001).…”

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“…This article explores the sakawa phenomenon as it is portrayed in popular Ghanaian videos. It is intended as a response to recent calls in global media studies to internationalize the field (see Nyamnjoh 2011; Thussu 2009), and it also attempts to provide grounded insights into recent theorizations in the fields of religion, media, and culture (see Lynch, Mitchell & Strhan 2012). It examines the phenomenon from two major perspectives.…”

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SakawaRituals and Cyberfraud in Ghanaian Popular Video Movies

Oduro-Frimpong¹

2014

Afr. stud. rev.

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Sakawa indexes a cyberfraud practice in Ghana allegedly linked with occult rituals. This article examines the phenomenon as an analytically relevant example of a material understanding of religion. It then offers a critical reading of a popular sakawa video series and contrasts its thematic perspectives with the reactions of some Ghanaian political leaders to the possible motivations for the practice. This critical approach is conceived as a response to the persistent myopic view of such popular genres as irrelevant to key debates around problematic Ghanaian issues and also to calls in global media studies to de-Westernize the field.Résumé: Les rituels Sakawa indiquent une pratique de la cyber-fraude au Ghana qui serait liée à des rituels occultes. Cet article examine le phénomène comme un exemple analytique pertinent d'une interprétation matérielle de la religion. Il propose ensuite une lecture critique de la série populaire vidéo appelée Sakawa et contraste ses perspectives thématiques avec les réactions de certains dirigeants politiques ghanéens aux motivations possibles pour cette pratique. Cette approche critique est conçue comme une réponse à la perspective myope persistante que ces genres populaires ne sont pas pertinents pour les débats sur les problématiques ghanéennes, et aussi comme une réponse aux incitations des études sur les médias globaux à désoccidentaliser le domaine de recherche.

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Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader

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Existential media: Toward a theorization of digital thrownness

Existential media: Toward a theorization of digital thrownness

Mediatized Spirituality: A Critical Appraisal of the Media-Religion Nexus in Nigeria

SakawaRituals and Cyberfraud in Ghanaian Popular Video Movies

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