Theology, Visual Culture, and New Media

3 credits · Divinity School

In recent years, a dramatic change has occurred in our media landscape. Online social media outlets - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like - are now ubiquitous. Legacy media players (newspapers, magazines, television news) have moved online as well often partnering with social media to share content and attract readers and viewers. Faith communities are part of this shift, as well, using on-line platforms as auxiliaries to brick and mortar presence and/or to create new and experimental forms of community. Drawing on scholarship on visual culture and new media, this course explores the theological, political, and communal import of these changes. [3] Ms. Armour