@article {2855,
	title = {Religion and Media: No Longer a Blindspot in Korean Academia},
	journal = {Journal of Korean Religions},
	year = {2017},
	abstract = {In contemporary social life, religion and media cannot be said to be separated. Contrary to the long-lasting understanding that the two are independent from each other, the spheres of religion and media are closely intertwined. Dynamic and increasing connections have been observed and reported by a range of scholars. Indeed, the scholarly interest in the relationship is a fairly recent one. Only thirty years ago, religion was just a blindspot within media studies (Hoover and Venturelli 1996). Similarly, media were an overlooked issue in religious studies. However, the new millennium witnessed a fast-growing attention to the interactions in both fields, demonstrated by two simultaneously released pieces of literature. On the one hand, Journal of Media and Religion was launched in 2002 by a community of media scholars who had investigated the religious dimension of media-related phenomena. In the preface to the inaugural issue, the respected media scholar James Carey noted that {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}[N]one of these religious phenomena can be understood without reference to media that organize religious community, transcribe and embed religious belief, and create both collective memory and modern politics{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} (Carey 2002, 3). On the other hand, a year earlier, a group of religion researchers collected twenty-five articles in an edited volume entitled Religion and Media. Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber, the volume{\textquoteright}s editors, summarized their efforts as confronting {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}the conceptual, analytical, and empirical possibilities and difficulties involved in addressing the complex issue of religion in relation to {\textquoteleft}media,{\textquoteright} that is to say, ancient and modern forms of mediatization such as writing, confession, ritual performance, film, and television, not to mention the {\textquoteleft}new technological media,{\textquoteright} of which the Internet is the most telling example{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} (de Vries and Weber 2001, vii). 
},
	url = {https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Religion-and-Media\%3A-No-Longer-a-Blindspot-in-Korean-Park-Cho/840a3698269904300fc9daa4530da186296e8501},
	author = {Park, Jin Kyu and Cho, Kyuhoon and Han, Sam}
}
