Time to help another PhD student studying Faith and Technology…..
Dear Ms. Ware,
I am a PhD student studying human-centered computing at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA. For the past 2 years I have been exploring how technology is used to support religious and spiritual practices. I began by interviewing church pastors about how they use information and communication technologies. Wanting to gain a broader and deeper understanding of different faiths I worked with a team of students and developed a mobile phone system to prompt Muslims to their daily prayer times. Recently I have become interested in how media is used in Protestant Christian worship services. I just finished reading Eileen Crowley's "Liturgical Art for A Media Culture."
In it she suggests that there should be more opportunities for church members to collaborate in the production of media used during Sunday services. Are there any existing software systems designed to support this? My assumption is that most of them are developed so that a single person or small team, rather than involving a many church members.
Yours is one of the many church and technology blogs I regularly read. They have all been extremely helpful - thank you.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely, Susan Wyche
Readers, what sayest thou? "Dr.-to-be" Susan can be found on facebook, of course.
And while we're at it, let's celebrate the recent PhD status of friends (and co-Wikiklesia authors for that matter) Dr. Heidi Campbell (blog) and Dr. Stephen Garner.
Addendum: Wow…lots of readers have reported to me via email that they can't access Susan's fb page - try this:
http://git.facebook.com/profile.php?id=12809534&highlight
or these: spw23@cornell (dot) edu or spwyche@cc.gatech (dot) edu
Christian software, Dr. Heidi Campbell, Dr. Stephen Garner, Eileen Crowley, faith based media, faith based software, Gospel Media, religious software Wikiklesia
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Heck, all the “production of media used during Sunday services” that I’ve ever seen in Protestant churches are created by church members. But then, because there are (in my experience) less constraints, guidelines, or things to be understood, liturgically speaking, in Protestant worship services, it doesn’t require a ’seasoned’ Christian to jump in and contribute. Maybe our traditions have made it easier for the average layperson to contribute their techie skills to the church…?
-T
-T
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