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The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and Authenticity after the New Media Turn.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and Authenticity after the New Media Turn./
Author:	Cooper, Travis Warren.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	394 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-05A.
Subject:	Religion. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10936982
ISBN:	9780438537828

The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and Authenticity after the New Media Turn.
Cooper, Travis Warren.

The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and Authenticity after the New Media Turn. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 394 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2018.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation focuses on the conjoined narratives of evangelical Christianity and digital culture in the United States. Existing studies of mass media and technology have theorized the rise of new, digital, participative, and social media networks, but scholars have rarely turned their attention to the underlying religious and cultural logics of communication that inform American communication patterns. The dissertation charts the emergence of a dueling, co-constitutive tension between two dominant media ideologies following the Protestant Reformation. First, an influential paradigm of media sincerity places high value on interpersonal immediacy, sincerity, and directness. A second, duly powerful paradigm of media promiscuity disperses texts and discourses widely and indiscriminately in an effort to extend Christian community, evade the problem of physical distance, and share the good news of evangelicalism. This dissertation's chapters trace the genealogy of this conflicting paradigm through American history and up through the rise of the digital. Through a series of case studies, these chapters center their narratives both on evangelical discourses on social media between 2010 and 2017 and the increasing presence of social media in everyday evangelical lives. Similar to oral, print, radio, and televised developments before them, new media networks reconfigure normative conceptions about technology usage. Supplementing the online case studies with five years of ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation argues that with the rise of new media and reconfiguration of the sincerity and promiscuity tension over time, a crisis in evangelical authority and authenticity has come to a head. The digital turn introduces into the broader media ecology modifications relating to religious authority, the circulation of information, and what counts as "authentic" interpersonal interaction. Twitter, the blogosphere, dataphones, Wikipedia, Instagram, podcasts, and Facebook constitute new arenas for public debate about socioreligious boundaries, theological and ecclesial orthodoxy, and contestation over new media's value and danger. This dissertation draws on several sources of data including quantitative corpus analyses of social media threads, technology manuals written for concerned religious audiences, ethnographic documentation of the progressively habitual social media practices of Midwestern evangelical Americans, manifestos written by Internet architects, sermon discourse on the ills of the Information Age, and a survey study of daily social media use. "The Digital Evangelicals" illustrates that through discursive social media evangelical semiotic ideologies have shifted, expanded, and evolved over time even as they have structured the broader American communicative milieu.

ISBN: 9780438537828Subjects--Topical Terms:

516493
Religion.
Subjects--Index Terms:

American evangelicalism

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