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Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural de Simone Natale

Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural

Editat de Simone Natale, Diana Pasulka
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 oct 2019
Believing in Bits advances the idea that religious beliefs and practices have become inextricably linked to the functioning of digital media. How did we come to associate things such as mindreading and spirit communications with the functioning of digital technologies? How does the internets capacity to facilitate the proliferation of beliefs blur the boundaries between what is considered fiction and fact? Addressing these and similar questions, the volume challenges and redefines established understandings of digital media and culture by employing the notions of belief, religion, and the supernatural.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190949983
ISBN-10: 0190949988
Pagini: 266
Dimensiuni: 236 x 160 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

It unquestionably achieves the goal to awakening the reader to a relevant and engaging academic discussion about how belief and practice take shape in the encounter digital media.
Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural recognises the co-constitutive nature of belief and technology and provides compelling and smart cross-disciplinary moments demonstrating such entanglements.
Human beings and their technological creations, including and especially their modern digital technologies, reflect, express, and intensify their fundamental strangeness. Scholars have long known that the history of religions is intimately related to the history of technology, from the ancient practices of agriculture, writing, the domestication of the horse, and the forging of iron, to the more recent invention of the printing press and the telegraph and telephone. This book takes that key insight into the present and near future, to the cell phone in your pocket, the computer game on your screen, and the VR system strapped around your skull. This book takes that key insight into the human-techno cyborg that is you.
Believing in Bits is a guide to why media technologies are magical: they create beliefs, manipulate thoughts, make us see things. After reading this wonderful collection of essays, you realize why the most natural thing about media is that they are supernatural. This book is full of media archaeological joys and insightful contemporary readings.

Notă biografică

Simone Natale is a Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK. Diana Walsh Pasulka is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.