Date of Award

Spring 5-17-2013

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Elizabeth S. Lopez

Second Advisor

Georgre Pullman

Third Advisor

Michael Harker

Abstract

This thesis explores ways evangelical Christian communicators remediate traditional ministry functions and community formation onto new media platforms. This exploration is framed by a discussion of literacy and digital composing reflecting Stuart Selber’s multiliteracy approach to teaching digital composition. The author positions evangelical churches’ approaches to texts, community, education, and communication as components of a distinct literacy that is often at odds with values, controls, and cultures found on the Internet and in new media. Discovering how church communicators use new media, how their education prepares them for effective digital communication, and how external sources, such as expert authors, aid the transition from print to new media helps us understand the gap between Selber’s ideal multiliteracy and the reality of new media literacy for this group. This also expands our understanding of digital composition, and the role it plays in both the classroom and in all students’ greater lives.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.57709/4018958

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