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Sat., Apr. 25, 2009, 8:58 pm
http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/graphics/2009_04_15flickeringpixels.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0310293219/churchmarke03-20)How's this for fitting? I read </em>Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith</em> (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0310293219/churchmarke03-20) by Shane Hipps (http://www.shanehipps.com/) on a plane to Ethiopia when I'd be all but disconnected from the technology I love so much for 10 days.
The main premise of Flickering Pixels is that technology has a profound impact on how we think, feel, react and, well, everything. The take away isn't so much that technology is bad, but that we need to be aware of how it shapes us.
In some ways Flickering Pixels reads like a love letter to Marshall McLuhan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan). If you're not familiar with McLuhan, he coined the phrase "The medium is the message," and pushed other ideas about the importance of the medium in communication. That's the primary purpose here, as Hipps translates McLuhan's ideas to our deeply connected technological age.
More... (http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/2009/04/flickering_pixe.html)
The main premise of Flickering Pixels is that technology has a profound impact on how we think, feel, react and, well, everything. The take away isn't so much that technology is bad, but that we need to be aware of how it shapes us.
In some ways Flickering Pixels reads like a love letter to Marshall McLuhan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan). If you're not familiar with McLuhan, he coined the phrase "The medium is the message," and pushed other ideas about the importance of the medium in communication. That's the primary purpose here, as Hipps translates McLuhan's ideas to our deeply connected technological age.
More... (http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/2009/04/flickering_pixe.html)