Understanding Digital Culture (#CITG)

Understanding Digital CultureDr Bex Lewis, Research Fellow in Social Media and Online Learning, CODEC, Durham University

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A sense of fun …

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http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/an-overview-of-social-media-january-2013

Communication & Relationships

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Tearfund.org/bloggers

Rev Prof David Wilkinson

God is a communicating God: “In the beginning was the word, and the word was God…”.

God is extravagant in communication – he is not a silent God who has to be tempted into communicating with people.

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http://www.biblesummary.info

http://philmgreen.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/66-books-in-66-tweets/

http://bigbible.tumblr.com

http://pinterest.com/bigbible/bible-verses/

NOT Virtual/Real

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Human Beings at Machines, not “are machines” …

Finding a Voice: http://bigbible.org.uk

Craig von Buseck, Netcasters, 2010

Craig von Buseck, Netcasters, 2010

Bad things can happen anywhere

@6% 360/6636

Persistence

Perpetual Beta

Scalability

Searchability

Who might read it?

God

Parents

‘The kids’

The newspaper

Your worst enemy

Authenticity

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The Long Tail

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http://www.sayinggoodbye.org

A Sense of Community

Whilst I cannot conclude my thinking in a wholly positive way, I acknowledge that great use of all of this to my own personal discipleship. I am a broader Christian, a better informed Christian, a more readily supported and sustained Christian and for that I love this digital life. If that makes me a better Christian, then perhaps its purpose is served if a purpose exists and indeed if a purpose is needed. However, I shall continue to pray that someone, somewhere, can say with absolute clarity that because of this digital community, they came to Christ. @FrDavidCloake

Who is my neighbour?

What does it mean to ‘love your neighbour’ in a world in which a ‘friend’ might as easily be the kid from down the street you grew up with as a woman in Botswana whom you’ve never seen in person and only know in the context of Facebook status updates, photos, and notes? What is the nature of community at prayer in a compline service tweeted each evening by the cybermonks of a Virtual Abbey? What is the ecclesiological and liturgical significant of worship in various churches across the theological spectrum on the quasi-3D, virtual reality site ‘Second Life’? How can we negotiate spiritual interaction in these contexts without losing sight of basic elements of Christian faith expressed in traditional embodied and geographically located practices of prayer, worship, and compassion towards others?

Tweet if You Heart Jesus, p.xiv

Timing …

https://www.youversion.com/bible/294/mat.5.13.cevuk

Push/Pull

Care for others - genuinely

Know that the world doesn’t revolve around you

Be ‘remarkable’, be different

Earn the right to have others take notice of you

Be grateful if ONE person cares what you’re doing

Have something to say that matters

Do stuff that matters – make an impact

Strive to bring value to everyone you connect with

Be fantastically generous with our time, money, and kindness

Be outrageously committed to making the world better

It’s all about relationships – build & nurture them Thanks @ianaspin (http://bigbible.org.uk/2010/10/the-eleven-commandments/)

What Biblical values do we want to see in our (digital) world?

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What do the fruits of the spirit look like online?

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What does it mean to share with grace?

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@drbexl @digitalfprint @bigbible

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