
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 internetâs 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.
This volume investigates how contemporary religious beliefs and supernatural practices have become fundamentally integrated with the architecture and function of digital media. Diana Walsh Pasulka and Simone Natale utilize a multidisciplinary framework to examine the intersection of technology and faith. They argue that the internet acts as a catalyst for the proliferation of belief systems, effectively eroding the traditional distinctions between empirical fact and digital fiction.
What You Will Find
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Scholars in media and religious studies identify this work as a significant contribution to the understanding of how digital environments shape human belief systems. The prose is noted for its academic rigor and its ability to bridge the gap between technological theory and cultural anthropology.
Page Count:
266
Publication Date:
2019-10-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190949988
ISBN-13:
9780190949983
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