Who’s Shaping Whom? Digital Disruption in the Spiritual Lives of Post-familial Emerging Adults
Technology has always interrupted and reshaped culture. Digital technology is no different, of course, and—predictably—it continues to reshape a variety of frameworks: individual, social, and ecclesiastical. This paper investigates how late adolescent, emerging adults engage with new media, paying s...
| Published in: | Journal of youth and theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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| In: |
Journal of youth and theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 117-143 |
| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history RF Christian education; catechetics ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Technology
new media
emerging adult
networked individualism
post-familial
theology of technology
adolescent brain
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| Summary: | Technology has always interrupted and reshaped culture. Digital technology is no different, of course, and—predictably—it continues to reshape a variety of frameworks: individual, social, and ecclesiastical. This paper investigates how late adolescent, emerging adults engage with new media, paying special attention to how digital technology influences their neurological, personal, and spiritual vitalities. Youth ministry practitioners, it will be argued, must be far more attentive to the conforming and transforming properties of digital engagement, which more profoundly impact the spiritual lives of late adolescents. A viable theology of technology is promoted, and suggestions for discipleship and stewardship praxis are encouraged. |
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| ISSN: | 2405-5093 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of youth and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/24055093-01602003 |