Sat 18 Oct 2008
Sat 27 Sep 2008
It’s only two weeks away, and I’m giving three presentations. I’ve finished doing the PowerPoint show for the first one, which is on religious podcasting. I’m not offering a written paper so I haven’t prepared one, but you can view the slideshow if you like here and ask me questions about it if you want.
To summarise:
I’m considering religious podcasting in the traditional sense of “gathering around the Word” and how podcasting communities, as “gatherings” change what we think about “Word”, or religious text. I have as a sample American podcasters (from the second type mentioned in the slideshow). My argument is that in the web 2.0 creation and distribution of religious text there comes about a “web 2.0 sensitivity toward Christianity”, in particular:
1. A consideration of the listener as active user and not passive audience
2. A desire for intimate communication rather than widespread coverage
3. A negotiation between an acknowledgement that podcasting communities are “disembedded” and a desire for local contextualisation of the message.
