Research Thesis

MA in Theological Studies | Communication and Culture

Scripture in a Digital Context:
Explorations in Media Ecology and Theology

I’ve always been a little bit nerdy.  Enough that it’s possible for someone to easily regret the query “so, what have you been reading lately?”  If you look like you have any genuine (if passing) interest, it’s possible I’ll start spitting technical terms while staring right through you and simultaneously retarding your social life.  So when I started to regularly get the question, “What’s your thesis on?,”  I was understandably cautious.  No use sloughing off potential friends because they unwittingly asked a dangerous question.

But the more I’d answer this one (starting slow:  “it’s about scripture and things like Facebook”), the more I found people who were genuinely fascinated.  Instead of excusing themselves to get another beer (one in hand still 2/3rds full), I’d typically get new opinions, inquisitive questions (who knew!), and a remarkable number of converstation enders that went like this:

“Wow, I’d really like to read your thesis”
To which I’d reply, “No you don’t. Honestly. Research? Zero pictures.”

But if they were insistent enough to start handing me their card, then I generally mumbled a promise about getting them a copy.  Of course, I didn’t write these requests down.  But as we went, I realized I needed to find some sorta of magic technology that would allow me to share my writing with the high cocktail-party demand.  Some sort of Tube that would allow people to use a local portal to access all 154 pages.

That would be this:

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    7 Sep 2011 at 10:57

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