Table of Contents
Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
New Media and Religion: Observations on Resarch
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. History of Research Paradigms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Heuristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
A. The Internet as an information transmission
medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
B. Online religion’s relationship to offline
religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
C. Online influence on the offline . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
D. Online-religion and religion-online:
The prime heuristic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
E. Basic observations on the Internet as a
medium: The beginning and end of medium
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4. Methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A. Qualitative approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
B. Quantitative approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Additional Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Recommended Citation
Cho, Kyong
(2011)
"New Media and Religion: Observations on Research,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 30:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol30/iss1/1