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  • This project aims to broaden our understanding of cultural and technological convergence by exploring "media ambivalence,” namely, the reluctance of individuals and communities to embrace the so-called “digital imperative” whole heartedly, sometimes
  • A photo of the cover image of the book "The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age"
    By Lynn Schofield Clark Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging,
  • From top left to bottom right, logos for major world religion including The Star of David, the Wheel of Samsara, the Cresent Moon and Star, and the Cross. To the right of that, a graduation cap. To the right of  that, social media logos for LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinmtrest, YouTube, Twitter, and various functional items such as a share button and WIFI. Finally, across the bottom, the title "Sacred Lines".
    As a collaboration between the Center for Media, Religion and Culture and KGNU, this quarterly radio show was a work of public scholarship dedicated to bringing the conversations being had at the center out to the public. With interviews conducted
  • This research, supported by a grant from the Social Sciences Research Council, was a joint project of the center and the University of Colorado’s Center for Asian Studies. It developed a profile of Muslims and of Islam in the six states of the
  • A cover photo of Media, Spiritualities and Social Change, edited by Stewart Hoover
    Edited by: Stewart M. Hoover & Monica Emerich This book maps emergent global practices and discourses of mediated, spiritualized social change. Bringing together scholarly perspectives from around the world and across disciplines, the authors
  • by Stewart M. Hoover The Center White Papers Series presents essays on important and emerging issues in media and religion. They are intended for a nonspecialist audience and seek to lay out the rationale for academic study and teaching focused
  • Edited by: Stewart M. Hoover and Nadia Kaneva The turn of the twenty-first century has seen an ever-increasing profile for religion, contrary to long-standing predictions of its decline. Instead, the West has experienced what some call a ‘
  • Edited by: Lynn Schofield Clark Religion is infiltrating the arena of consumer culture in increasingly visible ways. We see it in myriad forms-in movies, such as Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, on Internet shrines and kitschy Web “altars,”
  • By Stewart M. Hoover Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Religion in the Media Age is an exciting new assessment of the state of modern religiosity. Recent years have produced a marked turn away from
  • This four-year-long study (2006 to 2010) is part of a larger project supported by the Lilly Endowment. Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark are co-investigators of the overall effort. The center’s focus is on questions of masculinity,
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