[Air-L] An evening with Heidi Campbell

[Paul Emerson Teusner]

Apologies for cross-posting:

 

If anyone's in or near Melbourne in October, it's a good time to catch up
with our mate Heidi.

 

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Dr Campbell is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University and one of the
world's leading scholars in religion and online media. Her research has
taken her from inner urban life in Glasgow through mainstream churches in
Auckland to where religion, history and politics collide in Israel.

 

Heidi's teaching and research centres on the social shaping of technology,
rhetoric of new media, and themes related to the intersection of media
religion and culture, with a special interest in the internet and mobile
phones. She has written a book Exploring Religious Community Online: We are
one in the network looking at how members of online religious communities
connect their online and offline social-religious networks. Her current
research is an investigation of Jewish, Muslim & Christian communities'
historic perceptions and contemporary use of media technologies, forthcoming
as a text When Religion Meets New Media.

 

For those who have any interest in how online technology is shaping how
people are seeing and interacting with the world, or want to know how
creative uses of new technologies are making new opportunities for people to
connect, grow and learn, this is a chance to have questions explored.

 

Heidi is also keen to hear stories of Australians who have tried out
religion on the Internet, whether the experience is good or bad or somewhere
in between. Come along and share with her what the 21st century Australian
spirit sounds and smells like.

 

Date:           Monday 12 October 2009. 7pm.

Venue:       Pireaus Blues Restaurant, 310 Brunswick St Fitzroy (Melbourne).
Sit-down dinner, a la carte (Main prices from $15 to $30).

RSVP:          Friday 9 October to paul at teusner.org

 

 

 

paul emerson teusner

http://teusner.org/