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CultureFebruary 17, 2010

The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?

By Elizabeth Drescher

Benedict urges Catholic priests to use digital tech to teach and to evangelize, but the Holy Father may be underestimating the power of the non-hierarchical ethos of social media. Here’s hoping we might actually see a Vatican 2.0.

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

We may not have had a big map, or red and blue markers, or a flashing digital electoral vote count, but some of our favorite writers agreed to share a few words on this big day.

Facebook, Twitter, and the Death of Body Language

By Anthony B. Pinn

Something is missing from the world of instant communicating, microblogging, and social media: the body. There’s no face-to-face in Facebook, and no turning back. Are we becoming a network of phantoms?