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1. *Introduction
a. My first encounter with the internet
i.
AOL at Andys house
ii.
Discovering instantaneous communication at college
iii.
Bonding over bacon on Twitter
2. *Outline
a. Morning: What is the Digital Culture? (90 minutes)
b. Mass
c. Lunch
d. Afternoon: Visioning the Hyperlinked Church (2 hours)
3. *What is the Digital Culture?
a. Culture: totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs,
institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. (American
Heritage College
6. Faster is better
iv.
*Institutions
1. Distinct from businesses
2. Wikipedia
3. Internet Archive (archive.org)
4. Electronic Frontier Foundation
c. No single digital culture
i.
Gamers
ii.
Video Producers
iii.
Social Media
iv.
Makers
d. *Characteristics of Digital Cultures
i.
*Binary
1. Built on digital systems
2. 0s and 1s
a. Douglas Rushkoff: Decision points
3. Geometry
a. Always Black and White, no Gradiants
i.
Circle as series of points vs uninterrupted line
ii.
*Excarnational
1. Doubles-Down on Enlightenments Body/Mind Dualism (Cogito
ergo sum)
2. Excarnation Affects Behaviors
a. Downplays importance of physical presence
i.
We can outsource presence, caring to technology
b. Sherry Turkle: kids would rather text than meet
face-to-face
i.
Want time to craft perfect response/message
ii.
Feel pressured when they have to respond in real
time
c. Advent of Companion Robots
i.
Health Care/Nursing Homes
ii.
Child Care
iii.
NB: Marketed towards the Vulnerable
iii.
*Asynchronous
1. Eliminates perception of time
a. Human Perception of TIme Always Influenced by Tools for
Measuring Time
2. Traditionally two types of time
a. Chronos
b. Kairos
3. Chronos intrudes into kairos
a. Notifications - conditioned to check n
ow
ii.
b. Simply philanthropic?
c. Also good business:
i.
Google makes money the
more you are online
ii.
Longer you live, longer you will
use Googles services
Body can be edited
1. Body modification is a huge industry
a. Body piercing
b. Tattoos
c. Cosmetic surgery
i.
Both to conform to cultural
norms of beauty
ii.
And to rebel against them
iii.
Forked tongues, horns, elf
ears among the options
available
d. Scarification
2. Without denying reality of gender dysphoria,
hard to see widespread acceptance of gender
reassignment surgery outside this context
3. Not all body modifications are bad
a. Lissie - first cyborg in the family
2. *Connected
a. We are always connected to each other, expected to be
available
i.
Grew more acute for parents after 9/11
b. Always connected to media
i.
Constant entertainment, no opportunities for
boredom
1. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to
Death
c. Is this constant connection good for us?
i.
Experiments taking away phones from heavy users
showed they experienced signs of anxiety within 10
minutes, did poorly on tests
d. Are digital relationships real?
i.
Yes!
1. But thats the wrong question
ii.
More importantly: How much of our authentic
selves can we bring to digital relationships?
iii.
Importance of authenticity
iv.
How do we determine authenticity?
1. We assume that we are all Nigerian princes!
2. @ThisCatholicGirl
a. 5K followers, millennial sense of
humor, pictures
b. Total scam
c. Perfectly crafted identity drew many
in
d. New idolatry?
e. Relationships divorced from geographic proximity
i.
Tied to common interest, beliefs
3. *Accessed in multiple ways
a. Various devices
i.
Computer
ii.
Cell phone
iii.
Tablet
b. Not every device has same capabilities
i.
Dont always have complete access to our whole
digital self
c. As a result, multiple transitory identities
i.
Who I am on Facebook may be different from
World of Warcraft, Twitter, SnapChat, etc.
ii.
Easy to try out different identities, aspects of our
personalities
1. This includes aspects of our fallen nature
a. Porn
b. Trolling/Cyberbullying
c. Virtual violence
iii.
Also easy to discard identities
4. *Atomistic
a. Parts of our digital identities are hidden, even from
ourselves
i.
Huge archive of our online selves
ii.
Companies dont give us access to all the
information they have collected on us
b. This archive is both
i.
permanent in a way traditional relationships/identity
arent
1. In college I could be a different person than
in high school
2. Now there is always a permanent record of
what you say, do
ii.
susceptible to erasure at any time
1. Try finding your Friendster information
4.
5.
6.
7.
iv.
v.
vi.
Hospitable
Mutual/Open to the other
1. Embraces silence so that the other can
respond
b. The long silence -- the industrial interruption of the human
conversation -- is coming to an end. On the Internet,
markets are getting more connected and more powerfully
vocal every day. These markets want to talk, just as they
did for the thousands of years that passed before market
became a verb with us as its object. (Cluetrain)
ii.
Focus on person of Jesus Christ
1. We dont talk about Jesus enough!
2. How did Jesus interact with people?
iii.
in terms of how we reach out
1. Are we meeting the real needs of parishioners through our
ministries?
a. E.g.: How many troubled marriages are in your parish?
i.
If you dont know: consider that your parish
probably isnt that different from culture at large
ii.
How much time and effort does your parish put into
marriage ministry or support for those whose
marriages have fallen apart?
k. *Creates and shares resources
i.
Cardinal Wuerl: New Evangelization is not a program.
ii.
New Evangelization must be good cheese. (Edmund Mitchell)
iii.
Hyperlinked parish will share fruits of its creation with others spirit of
generosity
1. Wider conversation re: copyright and Church documents
l. *Exercises appropriate transparency
i.
Information wants to be free.
ii.
Doesnt mean that parishioners have a right to all information
iii.
Does mean they are empowered with appropriate information
iv.
Transparency builds trust
v.
Transparency cuts of unpleasant surprises
1. School closings
8. *10 min Break
9. *Video: Amazon Priest and Imam
a. Good example of bringing human in digital world
b. Much of digital world is designed to distract from real, authentic, human
encounters
i.
Not a new problem!
ii.
*Merton: Nine tenths of the news, as printed in the papers, is
pseudo-news, manufactured events. Some days ten tenths. The ritual
ii.
message of salvation heard available to all who would hear it on earth, through
text messages, on YouTube, on Twitter, and through whatever enables us to
connect in real and human ways with our brothers and sisters.
13. Closing Prayer
14. *Thank you!