{"id":42,"date":"2012-02-17T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T19:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2012-02-17T11:33:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T19:33:32","slug":"media-trends-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/2012\/02\/17\/media-trends-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Trends and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The growth of religion on the internet has been a very interesting thing to watch. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/contributors\/elizabethdrescher\/\">Elizabeth Drescher<\/a>\u00a0wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/culture\/5463\/five_social_media_trends_that_are_reshaping_religion\">media trends that are shaping on-line religion<\/a>. I found the first two trends\u00a0particularly\u00a0interesting: the social prayers and the ministers on the go.\u00a0Social\u00a0prayer groups are among the top most popular pages on many social media sites, like Facebook. The religious activities on-line sites like Facebook and Twitter are growing\u00a0quickly, and may shape the future of religions. Even religious figures, like ministers, are catching on &#8211; they use location services such as <a href=\"https:\/\/foursquare.com\/\">Foursquare <\/a>to let their communities know they are around in the local area to talk. Much of the religious\u00a0activates\u00a0that formerly took place in holy sites are now moving on line.<\/p>\n<p>I found this very\u00a0interesting. Looking back at history, many religious have a very negative view of advancing ideals. How the\u00a0churches\u00a0and other religious\u00a0organizations\u00a0are adapting their faith to online cultures is quite interesting. I find it quick ironic, as the Internet is often denounced as the space of Atheists and other such heretical groups. The fact that religious groups are fighting for their own space on line is quite interesting. I am curious about how much really gets done on the sites &#8211; I imagine the sites would be targeted by other groups as a place to troll (to make\u00a0inflammatory\u00a0comments, to anger users) and generally disturb the faithful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth of religion on the internet has been a very interesting thing to watch. Elizabeth Drescher\u00a0wrote about media trends that are shaping on-line religion. I found the first two trends\u00a0particularly\u00a0interesting: the social prayers and the ministers on the go.\u00a0Social\u00a0prayer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/2012\/02\/17\/media-trends-and-religion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":2,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"sfetter","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/author\/sfetter\/"},"qubely_comment":2,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"The growth of religion on the internet has been a very interesting thing to watch. 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