How Does Media Affect Us?
Because he finished his tasks and caught an early flight, my husband arrived home this evening, a day early, from a trip to Kenya and Rwanda. In the latter he delivered portable solar-powered data projectors so three church-planting teams of D. R. Congo nationals can project the Jesus film in the bush. Talk about your convergence of cultures.
Earlier today I attended an “Unconference” (no cost, no celebrities, just networking) at DTS. The event creator was DTS’s genius of a web-guy, John Dyer. When I saw him, he handed me a copy of his forthcoming book titled From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology. It’s super accessible, with stories and humor, but in it he explores a serious topic for serious persons.
Further adding to my ponderings was a workshop on media ecology offered this year at EPA in Chicago. Prior to that workshop, I’d not heard the term “media ecology,” which in the U. S. is the study of media environments and how modes of information and communication influence human affairs (and I would add vice versa).
What John’s book adds to the discussion is the missing element of a theological perspective. This time we go deeper to consider the intersection of technology and theology. Can you think of ways technology has changed you?