Below is a selection of my previous works in the field. To open them, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download for free by going to the Adobe site here. Each link opens a new window.
Electronic media, popular culture and spirituality
My first paper on the subject. This is a two-part essay. The first section looks at the cultural shift that electronic media has made in the West and its impact on youth culture in Australia. The second part looks at what this means for established church structures and congregations. Open…
Resident Evil
This is my favourite work to date, and was the most fun to research. This paper looks at the genre of horror as a tool for religious exploration. There are some cool pictures inside to make it an enjoyable read. Open…
Why bother with the media?
This is a paper I wrote for a Brisbane Anglican magazine called The Eagle. Open…
The Internet and identity
This is my very first university lecture. The text is here; the PowerPoint presentation is here. The HTML illustration is here, and the YouTube examples are here, here and here.
Religion 2.0 - heralding a new wave of online religion
This is a paper I gave to Zadok ages ago that got published in the first edition of 2008. My first publication under the name Paul Emerson Teusner. I was quite chuffed about that. Anyway, it explores the changes that web 2.0 applications have made to engaging with and thinking about this whole online religion thing.
Theories of Communication and Persuasion
In 2008 I coordinated my first course for the School of Applied Communication at RMIT. Below are copies of the slides used in each lecture. I’ve been asked to produce a course book based on my lectures for RMIT, so notes from that book will accompany these slides.
- Week 1. Introduction to theories of communication.
- Week 2. Considering the effects of media.
- Week 3. Considering media as text.
- Week 4. Media discourses.
- Week 5. Media as technology.
- Week 6. Old web vs Web 2.0.
- Week 7. Considering the mass media industry.
- Week 8. Media persuasions and the other voice.
- Week 9. Media as culture.
- Week 10. Postmodernism and popular culture.
- Week 11. Audiences, identity and interactivity.
