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iGods - How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives Craig Detweiler

iGods - How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives By Craig Detweiler

iGods - How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives by Craig Detweiler


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A nationally known writer and speaker on media issues provides a needed Christian perspective on the technologies and cultural phenomena that drive us.

iGods - How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives Summary

iGods - How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives by Craig Detweiler

Today the world is literally at our fingertips. We can call, text, email, or post our status to friends and family on the go. We can carry countless games, music, and apps in our pocket. Yet it's easy to feel overwhelmed by access to so much information and exhausted from managing our online relationships and selves. Craig Detweiler, a nationally known writer and speaker on media issues, provides needed Christian perspective on navigating today's social media culture. He interacts with major symbols, or iGods, of our distracted age--Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Pixar, YouTube, and Twitter--to investigate the impact of the technologies and cultural phenomena that drive us. Detweiler offers a historic look at where we've been and a prophetic look at where we're headed, helping us sort out the immediate from the eternal, the digital from the divine.

About Craig Detweiler

Craig Detweiler (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is an author, award-winning filmmaker, and cultural commentator who has been featured in the New York Times, on CNN, and on NPR. He is professor of communication and director of the Center for Entertainment, Media, and Culture at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Detweiler is the author of Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century, coauthor of A Matrix of Meanings, and editor of Halos and Avatars.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: iGods
1. Defining Technology
2. Apple: Aesthetics First
3. A Brief History of the Internet
4. Amazon: Personalized Abundance
5. Google: Algorithmic Authority
6. A Brief History of Social Networking
7. Facebook: Authentic Frenemies
8. You Tube, Twitter, Instagram: Audience Participation
Conclusion: The Telos of Technology
Index

Additional information

GOR011136776
9781587433443
1587433443
iGods - How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives by Craig Detweiler
Used - Like New
Paperback
Baker Publishing Group
20131119
256
Commended for Christian Retailing's Best (Church & Culture) 2014 Commended for IndieFab awards (Popular Culture) 2013
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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