Description
Today the world is literally at our fingertips. We can call, text, email, or post our status to friends and family on the go. We can carry countless games, music, and apps in our pocket. Yet it's easy to feel overwhelmed by access to so much information and exhausted from managing our online relationships and selves.
Craig Detweiler, a nationally known writer and speaker on media issues, provides needed Christian perspective on navigating today's social media culture. He interacts with major symbols, or "iGods," of our distracted age--Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Pixar, YouTube, and Twitter--to investigate the impact of the technologies and cultural phenomena that drive us. Detweiler offers a historic look at where we've been and a prophetic look at where we're headed, helping us sort out the immediate from the eternal, the digital from the divine.
Author: Craig Detweiler
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 11/19/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.11w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9781587433443
ISBN10: 1587433443
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living | General
- Religion | Christian Ministry | Youth
Craig Detweiler, a nationally known writer and speaker on media issues, provides needed Christian perspective on navigating today's social media culture. He interacts with major symbols, or "iGods," of our distracted age--Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Pixar, YouTube, and Twitter--to investigate the impact of the technologies and cultural phenomena that drive us. Detweiler offers a historic look at where we've been and a prophetic look at where we're headed, helping us sort out the immediate from the eternal, the digital from the divine.
Author: Craig Detweiler
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 11/19/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.11w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9781587433443
ISBN10: 1587433443
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living | General
- Religion | Christian Ministry | Youth
About the Author
Craig Detweiler (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is an author, award-winning filmmaker, and cultural commentator who has been featured in the New York Times, on CNN, and on NPR. He is professor of communication and director of the Center for Entertainment, Media, and Culture at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Detweiler is the author of Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century, coauthor of A Matrix of Meanings, and editor of Halos and Avatars.