Today Hugh Hewitt posted a recent email from a reader about social media and young Evangelicals. The email contains some great thinking and it relates to what I’ve recently posted about on the challenges of electronic media, especially in regards to youth, so I’m linking to it today.
Some pertinent parts:
“The lines of popular cultural engagement are being redrawn, because the rise of new media has fundamentally changed the way people process information at a cognitive level.”
“I have been researching electronic media and intergenerational communication for 10 years, and there really are some broad and deep implications here. One finer point worth mentioning is that print-based communication—which is primarily how the historical works and insights of all religious thought have been preserved—is being displaced as authoritative in society by interactive, and increasingly, peer-based communication. As the influence of new media increases, the influence of the proven ideas of the past stand to decrease. Who benefits from this, and who does not?”
Mark is right on. Go check out his own blog.
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