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Theology and the self in cyberspace

At next weeks AACC conference in Brisbane, Ill be giving a dinner talk entitled Theology 2.0: Blogging as Theological Discourse. If anyone knows of some good research in this area, Id be glad for some extra reading tips before I start writing the paper. Heres the abstract I submitted: The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben once remarked: There are no authors today who could console themselves by thinking that their work will be read in a century (by what kind of human beings?)... The emergence of new web technologies, coupled with the formation of new online communities, raises sharply this question of what kind of human beings might exist a century from now. This paper analyses the contemporary Web 2.0 environment (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, online gaming, etc), and offers a reflection on the way these web technologies are forming our interior human landscapes. Focusing especially on the place of blogging in contemporary theology, the paper argues that theological discourse is changing and adapting under the impact of new technologies and new forms of human interaction just as, in another period, theological discourse changed under the impact of the printing press and the mass production of books. The paper will suggest some possible answers to the questions: what kind of self is formed by blogging? And what kind of theology?

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