Flickering pixels : how technology shapes your faith /
Hipps, Shane, 1956-,
Flickering pixels : how technology shapes your faith / [print] Shane Hipps. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, (c)2009. - 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Some of the material in this book was previously published in The hidden power of electronic culture, 2006.
Introduction: Hidden pixels -- Mr. No-depth Perception -- The magic eye -- Stretch Armstrong -- Dyslexia and deception -- Subliminal messages -- Electric faith -- A thousand feelings -- The dimmer switch -- Soul stealing -- Together apart -- Our nomadic life -- Next door enemy -- Getting younger -- The prodigal brain -- A mirror dimly -- Media God -- Y'all -- Epilogue: Bend.
Shane Hipps takes readers beneath the surface of things to see how the technologies we use end up using us. He shows us the hidden power of technology to shape our faith in unexpected ways. Not all is dire, however, as Hipps shows us that hidden things have far less power to shape us when they aren't hidden anymore. We are only puppets of our technology if we remain asleep. --from publisher description
9780310293217
2008045542
Christianity and culture.
Technology--Influence.
Technology--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Mass media--Influence.
Mass media--Religious aspects--Christianity.
BR115.H667.F553 2009
Flickering pixels : how technology shapes your faith / [print] Shane Hipps. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, (c)2009. - 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Some of the material in this book was previously published in The hidden power of electronic culture, 2006.
Introduction: Hidden pixels -- Mr. No-depth Perception -- The magic eye -- Stretch Armstrong -- Dyslexia and deception -- Subliminal messages -- Electric faith -- A thousand feelings -- The dimmer switch -- Soul stealing -- Together apart -- Our nomadic life -- Next door enemy -- Getting younger -- The prodigal brain -- A mirror dimly -- Media God -- Y'all -- Epilogue: Bend.
Shane Hipps takes readers beneath the surface of things to see how the technologies we use end up using us. He shows us the hidden power of technology to shape our faith in unexpected ways. Not all is dire, however, as Hipps shows us that hidden things have far less power to shape us when they aren't hidden anymore. We are only puppets of our technology if we remain asleep. --from publisher description
9780310293217
2008045542
Christianity and culture.
Technology--Influence.
Technology--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Mass media--Influence.
Mass media--Religious aspects--Christianity.
BR115.H667.F553 2009