The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?
Benedict urges Catholic priests to use digital tech to teach and to evangelize, but the Holy Father may be underestimating the power of the non-hierarchical ethos of social media. Here’s hoping we might actually see a Vatican 2.0.
People were glued to their Twitter feeds this week, as Iranians microblogged their updates of the civil unrest following the election. But is it possible that we’re not able to see the forest for the twee...ts?
Facebook, Twitter, and the Death of Body Language
Something is missing from the world of instant communicating, microblogging, and social media: the body. There's no face-to-face in Facebook, and no turning back. Are we becoming a network of phantoms?
The Tweets of the Christ
On Good Friday, New York’s Trinity Church reenacted the Passion Play via Twitter, the latest social-networking sensation. Nathan Schneider reports on multitasking his way through the service.
Christianity-Lite, in 140 Characters or Fewer?
From pew to pixel; does the virtual fulfillment of religious sentiments disorient or does it lead to more “real” forms of participation?
Twitter of Faith: Microblogging the Divine
Religious groups are discovering that Twitter can help to build a portable church, where believers can obey the timeworn injunction to “pray without ceasing”—or is it “tweet without ceasing”?