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No More SMS from Jesus: Ubicomp, Religion and Techno-spiritual Practices
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Over the last decade, new information and communication technologies have lived a secret life. For individuals and institutions around the world, this constellation of mobile phones, personal computers, the internet, software, games, and other computing objects have supported a complex set of religious and spiritual needs. In this paper, I offer a survey of emerging and emergent techno-spiritual practices, and the anxieties surrounding their uptake. I am interested in particular in the ways in which religious uses of technology represent not only a critique of dominant visions of technology’s futures, but also suggest a very different path(s) for ubiquitous computing’s technology envisioning and development.
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- Bell, G.
- Venue
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 141-158
- ISSN
- 0302-9743 (ISSN-L)
- 1611-3349
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- W2171168025
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- 187
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 136.73
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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