In the 21st video of Adam Niven' s #FBLiveVideoChallenge for Media Theology Adam continues the overview of his Media Theology Toolkit ebook that he has been working on in the background.
media - technology - theology - faith - communication - education - community - life
"In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message:
it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same."
Marshall McLuhan
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
#mcprobe: New Media Aren't Tools for the Church; They're Tools that Alter the Church
With new media devices and new media technologies, the Church continues to consider how these tools may be put in service of the Church. But like the rest of culture, the Church is not immune to the way these tools go to work at reshaping it as they are embraced.
The Resurgence of Vinyl Records and the Rhythm of Life
which kind of fits with McLuhan's tetrad concept of retrieval...where a previously obsolesced medium is brought back in a new way...
And whilst it's not a pure retrieval sense, because there's not a new medium that is retrieving the vinyl, perhaps it is a growing awareness in some of the ways the rapidly shifting media ecology is having unwanted impacts on our relationship with music.
M.E. Monday #3
This week, here's a little gem from Neil Postman:
"New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thought develops" (Technopoly, 1992).
"New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thought develops" (Technopoly, 1992).
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)