Technology and the Changing Geography of Religious Media

Wikle, Thomas A.

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“…Yet through government regulation, net neutrality protects NRB content and delivery from both economic as well as cultural constraint, such as by preserving delivery of the content on the NRB Web site directly or, more indirectly, the content of streaming video "intervangelist" preachers who have replaced NRB-supported 1960s televangelists (Bekkering, 2011, p. 105). Megachurches that have streamed religious services online raise new problems for ISPs seeking to fairly implement net neutrality, such as the rise in conflicts occurring between evangelical Christian broadcasters and Islamic leaders, who feel their communities are targets of this broadcasting (Wikle, 2015).…”

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Net Neutrality, the Fairness Doctrine, and the NRB: The Tension between United States Religious Expression and Media Regulation

Montalbano

2018

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This article analyzes the historical continuity between the opposition of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) to the Fairness Doctrine (1949) and to the contemporary Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Open Internet principle, net neutrality. These debates demonstrate how media policy discourse has shaped democratic ideals, including by designating whose voices are or are not included in broadcast and digital communication spaces. The discourse emerging from both media policy debates reveals that fears concerning cultural hegemony and the diversity of expression in the United States have intertwined with fears concerning the invasion of foreign ideologies. The article then considers the possibility of reconciling religious and secular discourse in the mediated public sphere.

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Net Neutrality, the Fairness Doctrine, and the NRB: The Tension between United States Religious Expression and Media Regulation

Montalbano

2018

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This-worldly Buddhism: Digital Media and the Performance of Religiosity in China

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Qian

2020

Religion, Hypermobility and Digital Media in Global Asia

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Buddhism in Mainland China has demonstrated evident inclinations in recent decades towards This-worldly engagements and has accommodated adherents’ demands for blessing and spirituality. In this process, media and digital technology have played an abiding and enabling role, not only as a new venue of preaching, but also a new frontier of social experiences that religions strive to shape and influence. This chapter investigates the entanglement of digital media and religion through a case study of the recent rise and popularisation of This-worldly Buddhism. In particular, it documents: (1) Chinese Buddhist organisations’ and clergies’ use of social media as a public engagement approach, and (2) the seemingly paradoxical involvement of Buddhism in secular activities such as technological innovation and creativity to reconcile the relationships between religion and technology.

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Technology and the Changing Geography of Religious Media

Cited by 2 publications

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Net Neutrality, the Fairness Doctrine, and the NRB: The Tension between United States Religious Expression and Media Regulation

Net Neutrality, the Fairness Doctrine, and the NRB: The Tension between United States Religious Expression and Media Regulation

This-worldly Buddhism: Digital Media and the Performance of Religiosity in China

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