The digital evangelicals : contesting authority and authenticity after the new media turn / Travis Warren Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Travis Warren, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and mass media.

Communication--Religious aspects.

Communication.

Digital media--Religious aspects.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

Summary:

-- Author is based in Bloomington, IN -- The author was International Studies Research Fellow in a project called Lived Religion in the Digital Age. For half of this study, he spent five years with a progressive religious community in Bloomington. He has knowledge of our local that can have a global influence. His writing moves swiftly between narrating stories from his fieldwork to outlining how these stories contributed to discoveries about religion in a booming digital culture. -- This book stands out as the only that combines online observations and analyses of online interaction with detailed observations of everyday evangelical life, focusing on a group of Midwestern evangelicals and digital connoisseurs. Comparative titles with overlap don't go beyond evangelical bloggers. -- The method behind the author's expertise is to look at media within the cultural contexts of the human experience. This relates directly to a strategic building opportunity from IUP's 2017 plan for the film and media list. -- Target audience includes our film and media studies, religious studies, and anthropology lists. Midwesterners interested in religion generally might pick this up.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-354) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Cooper, Travis Warren The Digital Evangelicals

ISBN:

9780253062284