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Facebook has notched up 500 million users this week. The Guardian had data on where they all are, and a data analyst at Tableau, Ross Perez, put this into a great visualisation. Powered by Tableau via Read Write Web Posted via email from Tony Watkins It’s very good to see Lars Dahle joining the blogosphere. Lars is Principal of Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication in Kristiansand, Norway, where I am now an adjunct lecturer. He’s heading up the media and technology stream for Cape Town 2010 (3rd Lausanne Congress). A couple of his early posts have focused on the [...] The final session with Southampton Deanery Chapter. SDC3. Responding to Media And the slides are here. The second of three sessions at the Southampton Deanery Chapter study day: SDC2. Perspectives on media A more print-friendly version of the slides is here. Yesterday I led a study day on engaging with media culture for the Southampton Deanery Chapter. Here’s the first session: SDC1. Culture Now A more print-friendly version of the slides is here. The second of my two workshops at Good Book Company’s ‘Growing Young Disciples training day on youth and children’s work. The audio may be available on the GBC website at some point. You can download the pdf by clicking on the menu button in the bottom-left corner of the Slideshare player. Evangelism in a Digital Age On Saturday (21 November 2009) I led two workshops at Good Book Company’s ‘Growing Young Disciples training day on youth and children’s work. The first was on Understanding Teen Culture. Forty minutes is a very short time to do anything other than scratch a tiny part of the vast surface which is youth culture. Anyway, [...] Another gem of a lecture from TED: Posted via email from Tony Watkins youth from today from Stock Images Patrick Barkham (The Guardian, 14 October 2009) writes: Get out of our living rooms. This country is in danger of becoming a politically controlled nation closer to communist China. That’s all very well if you have three hours to wash the dishes, but some of us need to get [...] In Media Unlimited, Todd Gitlin writes about the impact of media on our lives, and says that we live in something more than an information age: The centrality of media is disguised, in part, by the prevalence of that assured, hard-edged phrase information society, or even more grandly, information age. Such terms are instant propaganda for [...] Bob Davidson, ‘Eyes Wide Open‘, Christianity Today Movies, 14 April 2009 It’s good to see Christianity Today Movies publishing an article about getting beyond the surface level of film-viewing. CTMovies has some great reviewers, some of whom are online friends and very active in the Arts&Faith forum, but Bob Davidson’s article helps people to engage [...] |
Tony Watkins is a writer and speaker on Christian faith and contemporary culture, with a particular interest in film. He is the Managing Editor of Culturewatch. |
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