What Facebook Unwittingly Reveals in its Ban of LifeSiteNews for Covid Misinformation
Facebook’s ban of LifeSiteNews a notoriously ultraconservative website that regularly spreads disinformation about abortion—for its…
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A Meeting of Minds… and Computers: What Are the Costs of Using Technology to Merge Humans with Machines?
Facebook and Elon Musk have recently announced ventures that could transform what it means to be human. The potential is enormous—but so are the risks.
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The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented a device that could represent accurately the human voice….
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Talking Justice on Twitter: “We Are Breaking Down Barriers”
“As a Muslim Bangladeshi, social media has transported me across the world…”
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In Russia It Is Now a Crime to Insult Someone’s Religious Feelings
The protection of religious believers’ feelings has been enshrined in the Russian Civil Code for quite some time, but making it a criminal offense to insult the feelings of religious believers could bring with it much harsher penalties.
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Sikh Prof Attacked on Heels of New Study
It’s all about the turban.
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#PrayForBoston: Prayer as a Meme
So far as I can tell, nothing in our language or in our collective practice, digital or otherwise, holds space for such moments of spiritual pause, however secularized that spirituality might be.
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Marriage Equality: No More (Word) Games
How do I make sure that my contribution to the discussion of marriage equality properly accounts for my Christian faith? Instead of having the discussion in a vacuum, where words and ideas can be analyzed outside of experience, I make sure that my analysis runs directly through experience, and most importantly, through the experience of the suffering. Relative to this discussion, there is no more appropriate voice to include than that of the LGBT community, those whose experience has been objectified in “our” discussions of “their” rights.
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The Papal Prayer Machine
With Twitter, there is just the right mix of calculable dissemination and mystery. You know who has retweeted or favorited your prayer, but what of the followers of the followers of the followers who follow you who did not retweet or favorite but may have read and been affected by your prayer?
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Pope Tweeted into Retirement
Perhaps it wasn’t just the pope’s health that sent him into retirement, but his consternation at our increasingly networked lives.
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