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VIOLENCE AND RELIGIOUS ETHICS

puddlepirate — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:17:10 CDT

Each student should select one article from the list below and put your name and today's date (whatever date today may be) AT THE END OF IT of it IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND BLUE FONT. During the appropriate week, complete the reading, write a summary of the reading, and also post it ON YOUR INDIVIDUAL BLOG. All postings should appear before class. Each article may be assigned to one student only, so choose early and choose wisely. You can change your mind later, but your choices will then be limited only to those articles as yet unclaimed. However, new articles will be added by me as they are located throughout the semester. (Feel free to let me know if you find something appropriate, but DO NOT POST IT ON THESE PAGES - I WILL POST IF APPROPRIATE).

VIRTUAL VIOLENCE (AND THE PROBLEM OF ETHICS ONLINE)

Anderson, Craig A. “Violent Video Games: Myths, Facts and Unanswered Questions.” Psychological Science Agenda 16:5, October 2003. Available at: <http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-anderson.html> Accessed January 16, 2008.

Ballard, M.E., & Weist, J.R. “Mortal Kombat: the Effects of Violent Video Game Play on Males’ Hostility and Cardiovascular Responding.” Journal of Applied Social Psychology 26, 1996. 717-730. [Available at IC Library]

Bruckman, Amy. “Approaches to Managing Deviant Behavior in Virtual Communities.” Panel Discussion presented at CHI 94 in Boston, MA, April 1994. Organizer and panelist: Amy Bruckman. Panelists: Pavel Curtis, Cliff Figallo. Moderator: Brenda Laurel. Proceedings of CHI, 1994. Boston, MA, April 24-April 27, 1994. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1994. Available online at: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/papers/old-papers.html#CHI. Accessed January 20, 2008.

Carnagey, Nicholas L, Craig A. Anderson, and Brad J. Bushman. “The Effect of Videogame Violence on Physiological Desensitization to Real-Life Violence.” ScienceDirect: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 43, 2007. 489-496. Available online at: http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/abstracts/2005-2009/07CAB.pdf> Accessed January 16, 2008.

Cooper, Wes. 1996. "Wizards, Toads, and Ethics," in Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine (ISSN 1076-027X), Vol. 3: no. 2 (January). Available at: <http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1996/jan/toc.html> Accessed January 16, 2008. ALLISON MUSANTE 1/24

Cranford, Michael. "The Social Trajectory of Virtual Reality: Substantive Ethics in a World Without Constraints." Technology and Society Vol. 18, 1996. Archived at <http://sundoulos.com/articles.aspx?in=18. >Accessed December 28, 2007.

Dibbell, Julian. "A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society." The Village Voice Vol. 38 (51). December 1993. <juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html> Accessed December 29, 2007. Marissa DeMello

Flanagan, Mary, D. C. Howe, and Helen Nissenbaum. “Values at Play: Design Tradeoffs in Socially-Oriented Game Design.” Proceedings of the CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 2-7, 2005. Portland, Oregon. New York: ACM Press. Available at: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1054972.1055076. [requires subscription; ask librarian for help]

Gledhill, Ruth. “Manchester Cathedral Says Sony Apology Not Enough and Issues New Digital Rules.” Times Online. July 6, 2007. Available at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2036423.ece. Accessed January 15, 2008.STEPHEN GLEASON

Haeberle, Chuck [a.k.a. "Travelin' Jack" or "Greebo"]. "An Essay on Ethics and Virtual Reality (Don't Get Mud In Your Eye)." LegendMUD Archives. <http://www.legendmud.org/links/essay> Accessed December 29, 2007.CHRISTA PETRUZZI

Hamelink, Cees. “Human Rights in Cyberspace.” Prepared in 1998 for the UN Chronicle. Paper presented to the Victorian section of the Australian Communication Association, 5th December, 1989. Available at: http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=283. Accessed January 14, 2008.

Herbst, Claudia. “Extreme Death, Sex, and Computer Graphics Imagery.” Bad Subjects 61, 2002. Available at: http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2002/61/herbst.html. Accessed January 20, 2008. MALLORY MOSER

Hersfeld, Noreen. “Video Shootout.” The Christian Century, May 4, 2004. 22-23. Available at: http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=3049. Accessed January 14, 2008.JOHN W. BORCHERT

Hodges, M. "Cyber Therapy." Computer Graphics World. Vol. 24. Issue 1. Jan. 2001. 28-35. Archived at: <http://www.cgw.com>. Accessed December 29, 2007. [note to students: you will have to search to find this article but it is there]

Terdiman, Daniel. “Playing Games With a Conscience.” Wired Magazine. April 22, 2004. Available at: http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2004/04/63165. Accessed January 17, 2008. JONI SWEET 1-24-08

Terdiman, Daniel. “Real World Doesn’t Use a Joystick.” Wired Magazine. January 11, 2005. Available at: http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2005/01/66225. Accessed January 14, 2008.BEN MILLER

Thompson, Clive. “What Kind of Game Cheater Are You?” Wired Magazine. April 23, 2007. Available at: http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/commentary/games/2007/04/gamesfrontiers_0423. Accessed January 17, 2008. BECKY ZAREMBA

Walsh, David. “Video Game Violence and Public Policy.” National Institute on Media and the Family Conference, 2002. Available at: <http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/walsh.html>. Accessed January 16, 2008.

IDENTITY/EMBODIMENT

jborche1 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:33:44 CDT

Anderson, Craig A. “Violent Video Games and Aggressive Behavior in Young Women.” Aggressive Behavior 29, 2003. 423-429. Available at: <http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/abstracts/2000-2004/03AM.pdf> Accessed January 16, 2008.ALLISON MUSANTE 1/24
Argyle, Katie and Rob Shields. 1996. “Is there a Body in the Net?” In Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. Rob Shields, ed. 58‑69. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [I have a copy of this book]
Bailey, C. "Virtual Skin: Articulating Race in Cyberspace." In Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments. M. A. Moser and D. MacLeod, eds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 1996. 29-50. [Available at Cornell Library]
Balsamo, Anne. “The Virtual Body in Cyberspace.” In Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 116-132. [Available at Cornell Library]
Barglow, Raymond. "Buddhists Armed with Apples: Cultural Contradictions of the New Networking Technologies." Tikkun 15:3. February 19, 2005. 41-44. Available at: http://www.barglow.com/buddhists_armed_with_apples.htm. Accessed January 20, 2008.STEPHEN GLEASON
Bench, Harmony. “Virtual Embodiment and the Materiality of Images.” Extensions: The Journal of Embodied Technology. Vol. 1, 2004. Available at: http://www.wac.ucla.edu/extensionsjournal/Essays/Bench.htm. Accessed January 21, 2008. Marissa DeMello
Berman, Joshua and Amy S. Bruckman. "The Turing Game: Exploring Identity in an Online Environment" Convergence Journal. 7:3. 2001. 83-102. Available at: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/papers/convergence-tg-01.pdf. Accessed April 8, 2008.
J. Bryce & J. Rutter. "Spectacle of the Deathmatch: Character and Narrative in First Person Shooters" in G. King & T. Krzywinska (Ed.s). ScreenPlay:
Cinema/videogames/interfaces. Wallflower Press, 2002. 66-80. Available at: http://digiplay.info/files/Spectacle.pdf. Accessed April 8, 2008.
Davis, Erik. “The Spiritual Cyborg.” Cybersociology. Issue 7: September, 1999. Available at: http://www.cybersociology.com/files/7_erikdavis_html.html Accessed January 17, 2008.JOHN W. BORCHERT
Flanagan, Mary. "Next Level: Women's Digital Activism through Gaming." Digital Media Revisited. Andrew Morrison, Gunnar Liestøl & Terje Rasmussen, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. 359 - 388. Available at: http://maryflanagan.com/articles/DigitalMediaRevisted.pdf. Accessed January 21, 2008.
Jenkins, Henry. “‘Complete Freedom of Movement’: Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces.” Available at: http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/complete.html. Accessed January 20, 2008.
Jenkins, Henry. “Voices From the Combat Zone: Game Grrlz Talk Back.” In Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. Available at: http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/gamegrrlz.html. Accessed January 20, 2008. BECKY ZAREMBA
Kull, Anne. “Cyborg Embodiment and the Incarnation.” Currents in Theology and Mission 28, no. 3-4. 2001. 279-284. [Available via interlibrary request]
McIlvenny, Paul. "Avatars R Us? Discourses of Community and Embodiment in Intercultural Cyberspace." Intercultural Communication. August 1999. Issue 1. Available at: http://www.immi.se/intercultural/nr1/mcilvenny.htm. Accessed April 8, 2008.
NagaSiva, Thyagi. "The MUD as a Basis for Western Mysticism." 1992. <http://www.luckymojo.com/avidyana/gnostik/mudpsyc.html.> Accessed December 28, 2007. BOBBY WALSH
O'Brien, J. "Writing in the Body: Gender (Re)production in Online Interaction." In Communities in Cyberspace. M. A. Smith and P. Kollock, eds. New York: Routledge Press, 1999. 76-104. Available at: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/communities_04.htm. Accesed April 8, 2008.
Phelan, John M. “Cyberwalden.” Available at: <http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=270>. Accessed January 14, 2008.
Kacper Pobłocki. "Becoming-State: The Bio-Cultural Imperialism of Sid Meier's Civilization." Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology. No. 39, 2002. 163-177. Available at: http://www.focaal.box.nl/previous/Forum%20focaal39.pdf. Accessed April 8, 2008.Jonathan Hirschberg
Porush, David. “Hacking the Brainstem: Postmodern Metaphysics and Stephenson’s SnowCrash” Configurations. Vol. 2, Number 3. Fall 1994. 537-571. [Available online via Project Muse – see if you can find it]
Raybourn, Elaine M. "The Quest for Power, Popularity, and Privilege in Cyberspace: Identity Construction in a Text-Based Multi-User Virtual Reality." Paper presented at the Western Speech Communication Association Conference, Denver, Colorado. February 1998. Available at: http://www.focaal.box.nl/previous/Forum%20focaal39.pdf. Accessed April 8, 2008.
Sisler, Vit. “Representation and Self-Representation: Arabs and Muslims in Digital Games.” In Gaming Realities: A Challenge for Digital Culture. M. Santorineos and N. Dimitriadi. Fournos: Athens, 2006. 85 – 92. Available at: http://www.digitalislam.eu/article.do?articleId=1423. Accessed January 20, 2008.BEN MILLER
Tatman, Lucy. “I’d Rather Be a Sinner Than a Cyborg.” European Journal of Women's Studies. 10:1. February 2003. [Available online via Sage – ask a librarian for help]
Taylor, Philippa. “Downloads and Upgrades: The Cyborg Future.” First published in the CBBP Newsletter. Issue 7, Winter 2005/6. Available at: http://www.damaris.org/content/content.php?type=5&id=466. Accessed January 14, 2008. MALLORY MOSER
Underwood, Marilyn. “Wired Women: Lost (or Found?) in Cyberspace.” Journal of Religion and Society. Vol. 1, 1999. Available at: http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/1999/1999-5.html. Accessed January 21, 2008.CHRISTA PETRUZZI
Ward, Logan. Redefining the Human: The Upgradable You. Popular Mechanics May 2006. Available at: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/2713146.html?page=1. Accessed January 14, 2008.JONI SWEET 1-24-08

RELIGION BOOKS

jborche1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:54:27 CDT

Choose one book from the list below. Put YOUR NAME at the END OF THE ENTRY that you have selected in BLUE FONT. Locate a copy of it (I recommend Amazon.com used or half.com). Read it and write a book review. See the specs on WebCT for guidance.

Each entry indicates if it is available at Cornell Library, IC Library, and what the cost should be if you purchase it used. You can also get any of these books via interlibrary loan through the IC Library.

Apolito, Paolo. The Internet and the Madonna: Religious Visionary Experience on the Web. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. [available at Cornell Library] $10
Brasher, Brenda. Give Me That Online Religion. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2001. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $7JONATHAN HIRSCHBERG
Beaudoin, Tom. Virtual Faith. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1998. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $5 ALLISON MUSANTE
Campbell, Heidi. Exploring Religious Community Online: We Are One in the Network. Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. $30
Cobb, Jennifer. Cybergrace: The Search for God in the Digital World. New York: Crown Publishers, 1998. $1 STEPHEN GLEASON
Dawson, Lorne L. and Douglas E. Cowan. Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet. Routledge Press, 2004. [available at Cornell Library] $30
Foerst, Ann. God in the Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity and God. Dutton Adult, 2004. [available at Cornell Library] $1CHRISTA PETRUZZI
Goethals, G. T. The Electronic Golden Calf: Images, Religion, and the Making of Meaning. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1990. $2
Groothuis, Douglas R. The Soul in Cyberspace. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997 [or] Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1999. $1 Mallory Moser
Hadden, Jeffrey K. and Douglas Cowan, eds. Religion and the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises. Religion and the Social Order Series. Vol. 8. Greenwich, Conn.: Elsevier, 2000. (too expensive to purchase; get via interlibrary loan if interested)
Hojsgaard, M. Religion and Cyberspace. [available at Cornell Library] ($30 but worth it)
Hoover, Stewart. Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media. [available at Cornell Library] $12
Hoover, Stewart and Knut Lundby, ed. Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture. Sage Publications, 1997. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $36 reserved by BECKY ZAREMBA
Karaflogka, Anastasia. E-Religion: A Critical Appraisal of Religious Discourse on the World-Wide Web. Equinox Publishing, 2007. $27 at half.com.
Kellner, M. God on the Internet. Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide. 1996. $1
Lawrence, B. B. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Religions Online. Indianapolis, IN: Alpha Books, 2000. $5 JONI SWEET
Mitchell, Jolyon and Sophia Marriage, eds [?]. Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion, and Culture. T & T Clark Publishers, 2003. $29
Noble, David. The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention. Penguin, 1999. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $5 BEN MILLER
Roof, Wade Clark. Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $12Reserved by Amanda Pelliciari
Schultze, Quentin J. Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age. Baker Books, 2002. [Cornell Library] $4JOHN W. BORCHERT
Stahl, W. A. God and the Chip: Religion and the Culture of Technology. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $10
Zaleski, Jeffrey. The Soul of Cyberspace: How New Technology Is Changing Our Lives. New York: Harper Collins, 1997. [available at Cornell Library] $1 SCOTT BERG
Wertheim, Margaret. The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999. [available at Cornell Library] $2 MARISSA DeMELLO

VIRTUAL REALITY BOOKS

puddlepirate — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:35:55 CDT

Aarseth, Espen. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. [available at Cornell Library] $15
Benedikt, Michael, ed. Cyberspace: First Steps. The MIT Press, 1992. [available at Cornell Library, IC Library] $1
Gitlin, Todd. Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2002. [available at Cornell Library] $8 reserved by CHRISTA PETRUZZI
Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. University of Chicago Press, 1999. [available at Cornell Library, IC Library] $11 reserved by BECKY ZAREMBA
Hillis, Ken. Digital Sensations: Space, Identity and Embodiment in Virtual Reality. University of Minnesota Press, 1999. [available at Cornell Library] $8reserved by JOHN W. BORCHERT
Holmes, David, ed. Virtual Politics: Identity and Community in Cyberspace. London: Sage, 1997. [available at Cornell Library] (too expensive to purchase)
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Combine. NYU Press, 2006. [available at Cornell Library, IC Library] $20 Reserved by Amanda Pelliciari
Jones, Steve, ed. Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety. Sage Publications, 1997. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $30 JONI SWEET
------------------. Cybersociety: Computer-mediated Communication and Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995. [available at IC Library] $3 MALLORY MOSER
Levy, P. Becoming Virtual:Reality in the Digital Age. New York: Plenum Press, 1998. [available at Cornell Library] $14
Ludlow, P. ed. High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996. [available at Cornell Library] $1
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $10ALLISON MUSANTE
Munster, Anna. Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics. Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture Series. Dartmouth Press, 2006. [available at Cornell Library] $22
Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Free Press, 1997. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $8 SCOTT BERG
Niasbett, John. High Tech / High Touch: Technology and Our Accelerated Search for Meaning. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing. 1999. [available at Cornell Library] $1 STEPHEN GLEASON
Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. The MIT Press, 2000. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $7
Shields, Rob. Cultures of the Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. London: Sage Publications, 1996. $3 BEN MILLER
Smith, Marc A. and Peter Kollock, eds. Communities in Cyberspace. New York: Routledge, 1999. [available at Cornell Library] $30
Taylor, T. L. Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture. The MIT Press, 2006. [available at Cornell Library; IC Library] $20 JONATHAN HIRSCHBERG
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. [available at Cornell Library] $15 [special edition recommended] Bobby Walsh
-----------------. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. The MIT Press, 2005. Marissa DeMello

RELIGION AND VIRTUAL REALITY

virtuallyreligious — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:13:26 CDT

Alexander, J. 1990. “The Sacred and Profane Information Machine: Discourse about the Computer as Ideology.” Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religion. 35:60, 1990. 161-171. [available via interlibrary request]

Campbell, Heidi. (2006). “Religion and the Internet.” Communication Research Trends. 25 :1, 2006. 1-24. [available via interlibrary request]

Campbell, Heidi. “Considering Spiritual Dimensions Within Computer-Mediated Communication Studies.” New Media and Society. Vol. 7, No. 1, 2005. 110-134. Available at: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/1/110. [may require library assistance, since this site is subscription-only]

Campbell , Heidi. “Making Space for Religion in Internet Studies.” The Information Society 21:4, 309. 2005. [available via interlibrary request]

Casey, Cheryl Anne. “Virtual Ritual, Real Faith.” Online Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet. 2:1, 2006. Available in PDF at <http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/6958>. January 15, 2008. [special issue on rituals on the internet] AMANDA PELLICIARI

Cochran, Tracy. "Samsara Squared: Buddhism and Virtual Reality". Tricycle. Fall 1992; 2:1. 76-81. [online, but requires subscription or single-pay]

Cowan, Douglas E. "Religion, Rhetoric, and Scholarship: Managing Vested Interest in E-Space." In Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises. J. K. Hadden and D. E. Cowan, eds. Amsterdam and London: JAI Press/Elsevier Science, 2000. [page numbers of chapter?] [at Cornell Library]

Cox, H., and A. Foerst. “Religion and Technology: A New Phase.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. 17:2-3, 1997. 53-60. [available online via EBSCO and SAGE]

Davis, Erik. "Digital Dharma". Wired Magazine 2:08. August 1994. Available online at: http://www.techgnosis.com/dharma.html. Accessed January 20, 2008. JONI SWEET 1-24-08

Dawson, Lorne L. "Doing Religion in Cyberspace: The Promise and the Perils." The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin Vol. 30 (1). 2001. 3-9. Accessed at: <http://sociology.uwaterloo.ca/relcybercsssr.html.> Accessed December 28, 2007. reserved by BECKY ZAREMBA

Dawson, Lorne L. "Researching Religion in Cyberspace: Issues and Strategies." In Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises. J. K. Hadden and D. E. Cowan, eds. Amsterdam and London: JAI Press/Elsevier Science, 2000. [page numbers of chapter?] [at Cornell Library

Edwards, Mark U. “Media Dominance.” The Christian Century. February 28, 2001. 9. Available at: http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2119. Accessed January 14, 2008.STEPHEN GLEASON

Edwards, Mark U. “Virtual Worship.” The Christian Century. December 6, 2000. 1262. Available at: <http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1971>. Accessed January 14, 2008. CHRISTA PETRUZZI 1/24/08

Ess, Charles. "Prophetic Communities Online? Threat and Promise for the Church in Cyberspace" in Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 34:2. 1999. 87-100. Available at: http://www.drury.edu/ess/church/church.html. Accessed January 15, 2008.

Foltz, Franz. “Religion on the Internet: Community and Virtual Existence.” Bulletin of Science, Technology, & Society. 23:4. 2003. 321-330. [available online via EBSCO and SAGE]

Helland, Christopher. "Religion Online/Online Religion and Virtual Communitas." In Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises. J. K. Hadden and D. E. Cowan, eds. Amsterdam and London: JAI Press/Elsevier Science, 2000. 205-224.

Helland, Christopher. “Online Religion as Lived Religion: Methodological Issues in the Study of Religious Participation on the Internet.” Online-Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, 1:1, 2005. Available at: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/5823>. Accessed January 16, 2008.

Horsfield, Peter. “The Church and Electronic Culture.” Originally appeared in Research,1991. Available at: http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=160. Accessed January 14, 2008.

Horsfield, Peter. “Theology as a Virtualising Enterprise.” Colloquium 37:2, 2005. 131-142. Available at: http://www.colloquiumjournal.org/back-issues/37-2/131-142.pdf. Accessed January 24, 2008.

Italiano, Laura. “Gimme That On-line Religion: Launching the Pope into Cyberspace.” Columbia Journalism Review. Jan-Feb 1996. Available at: http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/96/1/pope.asp. Accessed January 15, 2008. SCOTT BERG

Keene, Michael. "The Church on the Web." Christian Century 116:22, 1999. Archived at: <http://copies.anglicansonline.org/christiancentury/9908features/> Accessed December 29, 2007. MALLORY MOSER 1-29

Kelly, Kevin. “How Computer Nerds Describe God.” Christianity Today. November 1, 2002. Available at: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/novemberweb-only/11-18-31.0.html. Accessed January 14, 2008.JONATHAN HIRSCHBERG

Kinney, Jay. "Net Worth? Religion, Cyberspace and the Future." Futures 27:7. 1995. 763-776. [available at Cornell Library – Olin]

Lam, Pui-Yan. “May the Force of the Operating System Be with You: Macintosh Devotion as Implicit Religion.”Sociology of Religion. Vol. 62, No. 2. Summer, 2001. 243-262. [available on JSTOR via IC Library and at Cornell Library - Olin] MARISSA DeMELLO

Mead, Margaret. “Christian Faith and Technical Assistance.” Originally appeared in Christianity and Crisis. January 1955. Available online at: <http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=518>. Accessed January 14, 2008.

Mitcham, C. “Computers: From Ethos and Ethics to Mythos and Religion: Notes on the New Frontier Between Computers and Philosophy.” Technology and Society 8:171-201. 1986. [Available at Cornell Library – Engineering]

Morris, Chris. “The Greatest Story Never Played: Why Don’t Religion and Video Games Mix?” Game Over [column]. CNNMoney.com. July 6, 2005. Available at: <http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/06/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm> Accessed January 15, 2008.ALLISON MUSANTE 1/24

Ramo-Chama, Joshua Cooper. "Finding God on the Web." Time 149:1, 1996. 52-58. Available at: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985700,00.html. Accessed January 18, 2008. BEN MILLER

Schroeder, Ralph, Noel Heather, and Raymond M. Lee. "The Sacred and the Virtual: Religion in Multi-User Virtual Reality." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4:2. 1998. < http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol4/issue2/schroeder.html >JOHN W. BORCHERT

Schultze, Quentin J. “Going Digital.” The Christian Century, January 31, 2001. 16-21. Available at: <http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2210>. Accessed January 14, 2008.

Schultze, Quentin J. “Lost in the Digital Cosmos.” The Christian Century, February 16, 2000. 178-183. Available at: http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2026. Accessed January 14, 2008.

RITUAL

puddlepirate — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:02:45 CDT

Each student should select one article from the list below and put your name and today's date (whatever date today may be) AT THE END OF IT of it IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND BLUE FONT. During the appropriate week, complete the reading, write a summary of the reading, and also post it ON YOUR INDIVIDUAL BLOG. All postings should appear before class. Each article may be assigned to one student only, so choose early and choose wisely. You can change your mind later, but your choices will then be limited only to those articles as yet unclaimed. However, new articles will be added by me as they are located throughout the semester. (Feel free to let me know if you find something appropriate, but DO NOT POST IT ON THESE PAGES - I WILL POST IF APPROPRIATE).

RITUAL IN VIRTUAL REALITY, VIRTUAL REALITY AS RITUAL

Anderson, B. and K. Tracey. "The Significance of Lifestage and Lifecycle Transitions in the Use of Internet Applications and Services." American Behavioral Scientist 45, 2001. 456-475. [Available at Cornell Library – Library Annex]
Banerjee, Neela. “Intimate Confessions Pour Out on Church’s Website.” New York Times. September 1, 2006. Available at: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E5D81E3EF932A3575AC0A9609C8B63. Accessed January 17, 2008. JONI SWEET 1-24-08

Bar-Haim, G. “The Dispersed Sacred. Anomie and the Crisis of Ritual.” In Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture. Stewart Hoover and K. Lundby, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997. [page numbers?] [Available at IC Library – I have it checked out as of 1/20/08]
Bauer, W. and Gibson, S. "Objects of Ritual." In M. A. Moser and D. MacLeod, eds. Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996. 271-274. [Available at Cornell Library – Fine Arts Library]
Clodius, Jennifer A. "Ritual and Religion in DragonMUD." 1995. <http://dragonmud.com/people/jen/ritual.html.> Accessed December 28, 2007. Jonathan Hirschberg
Crabtree, Shona. “Finding Religion in Second Life’s Virtual Universe.” WashingtonPost.com. June 16, 2007. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501902.html. Accessed January 17, 2008. ALLISON MUSANTE 1/24
Danet, Brenda. “Play, Art and Ritual on IRC (Internet Relay Chat).” Presented at the Third Annual Meeting, Association of Internet Researchers. Panel on Magic, Ritual, Performance: Work, Play, Religious Praxis and Digital Technologies. Maastricht. October 13-16, 2002. Available at: http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/papers/ritplay.pdf. Accessed January 21, 2008.
Fernback, J. "Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning." In Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media. Stewart Hoover and Linda Schofield Clark, eds. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2002. [page numbers for this article?] [Available at Cornell Library]
Jacobs, S. (2007). “Virtually Sacred: The Performance of Asynchronous Cyber-rituals in Online Spaces.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 12:3. Article 17. 2007. Available at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/jacobs.html. Accessed January 15, 2008.
Ostrowski, Ally. “Cyber Communion: Finding God in the Little Box.” Journal of Religion and Society. Vol. 8, 2006. Available at: http://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/2006/2006-10.html> Accessed January 15, 2008. BECKY ZAREMBA
Park, S. “Buddhist Religious Life in Cyberspace.” The Buddhist Review 2, 2000. 299-319. [unable to locate this article – is The Buddhist Review another name for Tricycle?]

Pinchbeck, Dan and Brett Stephens. “Ritual Co-Location: Play, Consciousness, and Reality in Artificial Environments.” In Proceedings of Connectivity: The Tenth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology. Connecticut. 137-146. L. Friedman, ed. Available at: http://www.danpinchbeck.co.uk/PinchbeckStevens.pdf. Accessed January 21, 2008. Marissa DeMello
Pinchbeck, Dan. “Ludic Reality: A Construct for Analysing Meaning-Mapping and Epistemology in Play.” Available at: http://www.danpinchbeck.co.uk/ludicreality.pdf. Accessed January 21, 2008. Bobby Walsh
Poremba, Cindy. “Critical Potential on the Brink of the Magic Circle.” Situated Play. Proceedings of DiGRA 2007 Conference. Available at: http://www.shinyspinning.com/cpbmc_digra2007.pdf. Accessed March 21, 2008. CHRISTA PETRUZZI
Radde-Antweiler, Kersten. “Rituals Online: Transferring and Designing Rituals.” Online Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet. 2:1, 2006. Available in PDF at: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/6957. Accessed January 15, 2008.STEPHEN GLEASON

SPACE/PLACE/TIME

Nebuchadnezzar — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:10:28 CDT

Each student should select one article from the list below and put your name and today's date (whatever date today may be) AT THE END OF IT of it IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND BLUE FONT. During the appropriate week, complete the reading, write a summary of the reading, and also post it ON YOUR INDIVIDUAL BLOG. All postings should appear before class. Each article may be assigned to one student only, so choose early and choose wisely. You can change your mind later, but your choices will then be limited only to those articles as yet unclaimed. However, new articles will be added by me as they are located throughout the semester. (Feel free to let me know if you find something appropriate, but DO NOT POST IT ON THESE PAGES - I WILL POST IF APPROPRIATE).

SPACE (VIRTUAL SPACE, SACRED SPACE, AND EXPERIENCING THE VIRTUAL AS SACRED)

Adams, Paul C. "Cyberspace and Virtual Places." Geographical Review 87:2. April 1997. 155-171. [Available on JSTOR via IC Library]
Au, Wagner James. “Muslims and the Metaverse: Can Second Life Improve US-Islamic Relations?” New World Notes. Monday, February 11, 2008. Available at: http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/02/muslims-and-the.html. Accessed March 20, 2008.Jonathan Hirschberg
Au, Wagner James. “The Sacred and the Profane.” New World Notes Archive. August 9, 2004. Available at: http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2004/08/the_sacred_and_.html. Accessed March 20, 2008. Bobby Walsh
Canning, Simon. “Telstra Hit over Virtual Uluru.” New.com.au. May 24, 2007. Available at: http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,21785853-462,00.html. Accessed March 20, 2008.JOHN W. BORCHERT
Davies, C. "Notes on Being in Immersive Virtual Space." In Proceedings of ISEA Conference (Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Arts) Montreal. 1995. [Available via interlibrary loan]
Flanagan, Mary. "Navigable Narratives: Gender +Narrative Spatiality in Virtual Worlds." Art Journal. Vol 59 no. 3. Fall 2000. 74 - 85. Available at: http://maryflanagan.com/articles/navigatingnarrative.pdf. Accessed January 21, 2008.
Hayut-Ma'n, Y.I. “Building the Third Temple Today.” In Let the Old Be Renewed and the New Sanctified. [publication data unknown]. Available in translation at: http://www.thehope.org/tmppat1.htm. Accessed March 20, 2008.
Healy, D. "Cyberspace and Place: The Internet as Middle Landscape on the Electronic Frontier." In Internet Culture. D. Porter, ed. London: Routledge, 1997. 55-72. [Available at IC Library; I also have a copy]
Heim, Michael. “The Feng Shui of Virtual Worlds.” Computer Graphics World. January 2001. Available at: http://www.mheim.com/files/cgw.pdf. Accessed January 21, 2008. JONI SWEET 1-24-08
Helland, Christopher. “Diaspora on the Electronic Frontier: Developing Virtual Connections with Sacred Homelands.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12:3 Article 10. 2007. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/helland.html>. Accessed January 15, 2008. SCOTT BERG
Jacobs, S. (2007). “Virtually Sacred: The Performance of Asynchronous Cyber-rituals in Online Spaces.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 12:3. Article 17. 2007. Available at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/jacobs.html. Accessed January 15, 2008.
Jones, Quentin. "Virtual Communities, Virtual Settlements and Cyber-Archaeology: A Theoretical Outline." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3:3. Archived at: <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue3/jones.html> Accessed December 29, 2007. Marissa DeMello
Kallinock, Sabine. “Going on Pilgrimage Online: The Representation of Shia Rituals on the Internet.” Online Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet. 2:1, 2006. Available in PDF at: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/6954. Accessed January 15, 2008. BEN MILLER

Kendall, L. "Recontextualizing 'Cyberspace': Methodological Considerations for On-Line Research." In Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods For Examining the Net. S. G. Jones, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999. 57-74. [Available at IC Library]
Kozel, Susan. “Spacemaking: Experinces of a Virtual Body.” Originally appeared in Dance Theatre Journal 11:3, 1994. Available at: http://art.net/~dtz/kozel.html. Accessed January 20, 2008. STEPHEN GLEASON
MacWilliams, Mark W. "Virtual Pilgrimages on the Internet." Religion. 32, 2002. 315-335. [Available via interlibrary request]

Moltenbrey, Karen. "On Holy Ground." Computer Graphics World. Vol. 29. Issue 7. July 2006. Archived at: <http://www.cgw.com>. Accessed December 29, 2007. [note to students: you will have to search to find this article but it is there] CHRISTA PETRUZZI
O'Leary, Stephen D. "Cyberspace as Sacred Space: Communicating Religion on Computer Networks." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 64:4. 1996. 781-808. [Available on JSTOR via IC Library]
Reid, Elizabeth. “Virtual Worlds: Culture and Imagination.” In CyberSociety: Computer‑Mediated Communication and Community, ed. Steven G. Jones, 164‑183. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995. [I have a copy of this]
Taylor, Jim. "Cyber-Buddhism and Changing Urban Space in Thailand". Space and Culture. 6:3. August 2003. 292-308. [Available via interlibrary request] · Taylor, Jonathan. “The Emerging Geographies of Virtual Worlds.” The Geographical Review, Vol. 87:2, April 1997. 172-192. [Available on JSTOR via IC Library]
Wertheim, Margaret. "Is Cyberspace a Spiritual Space?" Cybersociology. Issue 7: September, 1999. Available at: http://www.cybersociology.com/files/7_wertheim.html. Accessed January 17, 2008. MALLORY MOSER
Wagner, Thomas. “Church of England Calls Sony Game ‘Sick’.” ABC News. From The Associated Press. June 9, 2007. Available at: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3261847. Accessed January 15, 2008. BECKY ZAREMBA
Wilbur, S. P. "An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity." In Internet Culture. D. Porter, ed. New York: Routledge Press, 1997. 5-22. [Available in IC Library; I also have a copy] ALLISON MUSANTE 1/24

COMMUNITY

Nebuchadnezzar — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:26:02 CST

Each student should select one article from the list below and put your name and today's date (whatever date today may be) AT THE END OF IT of it IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND BLUE FONT. During the appropriate week, complete the reading, write a summary of the reading, and also post it ON YOUR INDIVIDUAL BLOG. All postings should appear before class. Each article may be assigned to one student only, so choose early and choose wisely. You can change your mind later, but your choices will then be limited only to those articles as yet unclaimed. However, new articles will be added by me as they are located throughout the semester. (Feel free to let me know if you find something appropriate, but DO NOT POST IT ON THESE PAGES - I WILL POST IF APPROPRIATE).

COMMUNITY, RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, AND VIRTUAL REALITY

Baym, N. K. "The Emergence of On-Line Community." In Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. S. Jones, ed. Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications, 1998. 35-68. [Available at IC Library]

Brasher, Brenda E. “Thoughts on the Status of the Cyborg: On Technological Socialization and Its Link to the Religious Function of Popular Culture.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 64:4. 1996. 809-830. Available at: <http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=404>. Accessed January 14, 2008. [also available on JSTOR]
Bromberg, Heather. “Are MUDs Communities? Identity , Belonging and Consciousness in Virtual Worlds.” In Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. Rob Shields, ed. 143‑152. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. [I have a copy of this book; or get it via interlibrary loan]
Bruckman, Amy, "Finding One's Own in Cyberspace," Technology Review 99:1 January 1996. 48-54. Available online at: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/papers/tr-finding-ones-own.pdf. Accessed January 20, 2008. Bobby Walsh
Cohen, Debra Nussbaum. “When a Spiritual and a Romantic Quest Leads to the Web.” New York Times. July 31, 2004. Available at: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9C03E6DA1E3DF932A05754C0A9629C8B63&scp=39&sq=religion. Accessed January 18, 2008. SCOTT BERG
Crumm, David. “Forty Strangers in a Virtual Room Talk about Religion.” Wired Magazine. July 12, 2007. Available at: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/open_source_religion. Accessed January 17, 2008. BECKY ZAREMBA
Davis, Erik. "Technopagans." Wired 3:07. July 1995. Available at: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.07/technopagans.html. Accessed January 18, 2008. AMANDA PELLICIARI
Dawson, Lorne L. and Jenna Hennebry, "New Religions and the Internet: Recruiting in a New Public Space." Journal of Contemporary Religion 14, 1, 1999. [Available online via Academic Search Premier via IC Library]
Dotinga, Randy. “Flying Spaghetti Monsters Inspires Wonky Religious Debate.” Wired Magazine. November 11, 2007. Available at: http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/11/flying_spaghetti_monster. Accessed January 17, 2008. JONI SWEET 1-24-08
Feder, Barnaby J. “The First Church of Cyberspace: Services Tomorrow.” New York Times. May 15, 2004. Available at: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE0DA163FF936A25756C0A9629C8B63&scp=52&sq=religion. Accessed January 17, 2008. STEPHEN GLEASON
Heffernan, Virginia. “God and Man on YouTube.” New York Times. November 4, 2007. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/magazine/04wwln-medium-t.html?scp=14&sq=religion. Accessed January 17, 2008.ALLISON MUSANTE 1/24
Linderman, A.G. and M. Lövheim. “Internet, Religion, and the Attribution of Social Trust.” In Studies in Media, Religion, and Culture. Edinburgh, London, and New York: T & T Clark/Continuum, 2003. [page numbers?] [Available via interlibrary loan]
Mosteller, Rachel. “Taking the Debate About God Online, and Battling It Out With Videos.” New York Times. February 17, 2007. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/us/17religion.html?_r=1&fta=y&oref=slogin. Accessed January 17, 2008. CHRISTA PETRUZZI 2/25/08
O'Leary, Stephen D. and Brenda E. Brasher. "The Unknown God of the Internet: Religious Communications from the Ancient Agora to the Virtual Forum." In Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. C. Ess, ed. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996. 233-269. [available at IC Library]
Rafaeli, S. and F. Sudweeks. "Interactivity on the Net." In Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet. F. Sudweeks, M. McLaughlin and S. Rafaeli, eds. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, MIT Press, 1998. 173-189. [I have a copy of this]
Sang-Hun, Choe. “Shamanism Enjoys Revival in Techno-Savvy South Korea.” New York Times. July 7, 2007. Available online at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/world/asia/07korea.html?scp=40&sq=religion. Accessed January 17, 2008.Jonathan Hirschberg
Schroeder, Ralph. "Networked Worlds: Social Aspects of Multi-User Virtual Reality Technology." Sociological Research Online 2:4 1997. <http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/2/4/5.html> Accessed December 29, 2007.
Schroeder, Ralph, Noel Heather, and Raymond M. Lee. “The Sacred and the Virtual: Religion in Multi-User Virtual Reality.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4:2, 1998. Available at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol4/issue2/schroeder.html. Accessed January 15, 2008. Bobby Walsh
Shapiro, A. L. "The Net That Binds: Using Cyberspace to Create Real Communities." The Nation. June 21, 1999. 11-15. Archived at: <http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990621/shapiro> Accessed December 29, 2007.
Sink, Mindy. “Now Available, Spiritual Connection on the Internet.” New York Times. December 28, 2002. Available at: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00EFDA1F3CF93BA15751C1A9649C8B63&scp=72&sq=religion. Accessed January 18, 2008.JOHN W. BORCHERT
Sink, Mindy. “Spiritual Issues Lead Many to the Net.” New York Times. September 6, 2003. Available at: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E3DB1F38F935A3575AC0A9659C8B63&scp=94&sq=religion. Accessed January 17, 2008. Marissa DeMello
Spadero, Antonio. “Jesuits Say Take Word of God to Second Life.” Reuters. July 27, 2007. Available at: http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSL2777496320070727?feedType=RSS. Accessed January 15, 2008. BEN MILLER
Stolz, Martin. “Split Over the Mormon Church, But Maintaining Some Ties.” New York Times. June 2, 2007. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/us/02religion.html?scp=16&sq=religion. Accessed January 18, 2008. MALLORY MOSER 2-26
Zezima, Katie. “Web Space Where Religion and Social Networking Meet.” New York Times. June 30, 2007. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/30/us/30religion.html.> Accessed January 17, 2008.

Suggestions and Leads

virtuallyreligious — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:08:54 CST

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week639/cover.html - story from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly about values and video games. May 20, 2003. Includes embedded video. Watch? Add to bibliography?

http://nifplay.org/polar-husky.html - a really neat page Joni found that describes play across species, suggesting that play is a form of non-verbal language. In terms of religion, it makes you wonder - what is the difference between "playing" a game that is religious and "playing" one that is not? If soft, mimicked, or symbolic violence in VR is a sort of instinctive "play" outlet, then what about virtual reality experiences that involve violence? Is playing Left Behind "playful" in the same way as, say, World of Warcraft or Black and White? And if we move out of the realm of VR, is there some other kind of religious "play?" Can one be "playful" about one's beliefs? Maybe - but what happens if one is? Is there anything lost, or not?