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Migrating Ministry: New Media Literacy And Christian Communication

Cole, Frederick A
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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.

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2013-05-17
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New media, Christianity, Literacy, Multiliteracies, Media convergence, Multimodal composition, Stuart Selber
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Cole, Frederick A. "Migrating Ministry: New Media Literacy And Christian Communication." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2013. https://doi.org/10.57709/4018958.
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2013-04-10
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