Religion and Media Resources

This is a page I’m using to gather resources we used in a course on Religion and Media at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg in August of 2012, and again in January of 2014.

Handouts

• syllabus (2012)
• syllabus (2014)
• story circle process
• theological reflection exercise

Videos

• An anthropological introduction to YouTube
• Darth Vader commercial
• “Jesus vs. religion”
• [transcript]
• Catholic response
• [transcript]
• Jim Gilliam’s testimony
• TED talk on inequality
• Ken Robinson on TED
• Aleph Molinari on TEDx
• Creative Commons
• Fair Use
• Michael Wesch on wonder
• Misunderstood commercial
• Geared up commercial

Student blogs from 2014

• NicoleR
• ChuckS
• NicoleM
• KerriC
• NicoleW
• IdaH

Student blogs from 2012

• Stephanie
• Brian
• Dan
• Ron
• Alex

Faculty blogs

• Dr. Largen
• Dr. Hess

Presentation slides

• new learning culture
• reality exercise
• quotes from Jolyon Mitchell
• food and faith analogy
• digital inequality

Blogs to consider

• New Media Project at Union
• Ethan Zuckerman
• Call&Response
• State of Formation
• Jesuit Post
• RacismReview .

Books mentioned

• Mashup Religion
• Net Smart
• Click2Save
• Media Violence and Christian Ethics
• Communicative Theology
• Making Spiritual Sense
• Digitizing Race
• Race After the Internet
• Converging on Culture
• The Christian Imagination
• Tweet if you {heart} Jesus
• Networked

Tutorials

• Moviemaker
• iMovie
• MissingManuals
• Facebook privacy settings
• Stephen Brookfield (teaching)

Other web links we mentioned

• Digital Africa
• GenderIT.org
• Pew Internet Project
• Facing Race
• Racism and the Internet
• Global Voices Online
• TED
• danah boyd
• storyingfaith.org
• Social media policies for churches
• College Admins on twitter
• d365.org
• ON video
• Public Conversations Project
• PresentationZen
• Sparkhouse
• Lifelong Faith
• Creative commons
• FreeSound
• New Economics Foundation
• Digital Religion
• Respectful Conversations Project
• Discussion as a way of teaching
• PEW reports on digital divides
• State of the Internet
• Digital divide infographic
• Fair use overall
• TheRevealer
• Copyright and churches
• Church and social media wiki
• Pew’s social media update
• #chsosm
• assessing church websites