@article {87, title = {How the iPhone became divine: Blogging, religion and intertextuality}, journal = {New Media and Society}, volume = {12}, year = {2010}, pages = {1191-127}, abstract = {This article explores the labeling of the iPhone as the {\textquoteleft}Jesus phone{\textquoteright} in order to demonstrate how religious metaphors and myth can be appropriated into popular discourse and shape the reception of a technology. We consider the intertextual nature of the relationship between religious language, imagery and technology and demonstrate how this creates a unique interaction between technology fans and bloggers, news media and even corporate advertising. Our analysis of the {\textquoteleft}Jesus phone{\textquoteright} clarifies how different groups may appropriate the language and imagery of another to communicate very different meanings and intentions. Intertextuality serves as a framework to unpack the deployment of religion to frame technology and meanings communicated. We also reflect on how religious language may communicate both positive and negative aspects of a technology and instigate an unintentional trajectory in popular discourse as it is employed by different audiences, both online and offline. }, keywords = {blogs, cell phone, fandom, intertexuality, iPhone, Jesus phone, religion, religious discourse, technology}, url = {http://nms.sagepub.com/content/12/7/1191}, author = {Heidi Campbell and Antonio LaPastina} } @inbook {315, title = {Texting the Faith: Religious Users and Cell Phone Culture}, booktitle = {The cell phone reader. Essays in social transformation}, year = {2006}, pages = {139-154}, publisher = {Peter Lang}, organization = {Peter Lang}, address = {New York}, abstract = {The Cell Phone Reader offers a diverse, eclectic set of essays that examines how this rapidly evolving technology is shaping new media cultures, new forms of identity, and media-centered relationships. The contributors focus on a range of topics, from horror films to hip-hop, from religion to race, and draw examples from across the globe. The Cell Phone Reader provides a road map for both scholars and beginning students to examine the profound social, cultural and international impact of this small device.}, keywords = {cell phone, Faith, religious, Texting}, url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=U8uOkAp998IC\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false}, author = {Heidi Campbell} } @article {89, title = {"What hath God wrought{\textquotedblright}: Considering how religious communities culture (or kosher) the cell phone}, journal = {Continuum: Journal of Media and Culture}, volume = {21}, year = {2007}, pages = {191-203}, keywords = {cell phone, Israel, kosher phone, Orthodox Judaism, religion}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10304310701269040}, author = {Heidi Campbell} } @article {1942, title = {Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media}, journal = {Annual Review of Anthropology}, volume = {39}, year = {2010}, pages = {87-505}, abstract = {his review surveys and divides the ethnographic corpus on digital me dia into three broad but overlapping categories: the cultural politics of digital media, the vernacular cultures of digital media, and the pro saics of digital media. Engaging these three categories of scholarship on digital media, I consider how ethnographers are exploring the com plex relationships between the local practices and global implications of digital media, their materiality and politics, and their banal, as well as profound, presence in cultural life and modes of communication. I consider the way these media have become central to the articulation of cherished beliefs, ritual practices, and modes of being in the world; the fact that digital media culturally matters is undeniable but showing how, where, and why it matters is necessary to push against peculiarly arrow presumptions about the universality of digital experience.}, keywords = {cell phone, Communication, computers, Ethnography}, doi = { 10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.10494}, author = {Coleman, E. G.} } @article {1264, title = {The Forbidden Fork, the Cell Phone Holocaust, and Other Haredi Encounters with Technology}, journal = {Contemporary Jewry}, volume = {29}, year = {2009}, chapter = {3}, abstract = {Haredi Jews valorize tradition and explicitly reject the idea of progress on ideological grounds. Concomitantly, they are opposed to many innovations and are highly critical of the destructive potential of modern communication technologies such as cell phones with Internet capability that serve as pocket-sized portals between their insular communities and the wider world. In response to this perceived threat, Haredi authorities have issued bans on the use of certain technologies and have endorsed the development of acceptable alternatives, such as the so-called kosher cell phone. And yet, many Haredim, both in the United States and Israel, are highly sophisticated users and purveyors of these same technologies. This tension indicates that Haredim have a much more complicated relationship to technology and to modernity, itself, than their {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}official{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} stance would suggest.}, keywords = {cell phone, Haredim, Hasidim, Holocaust, internet, Israel, Modernity, technology, Ultra-Orthodox Jews}, url = {http://www.nabilechchaibi.com/resources/Deutsch.pdf}, author = {Nathaniel Deutsch} } @article {381, title = {iReligion}, journal = {Studies in World Christianity}, volume = {17}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This article aims to present a model for investigating the capacity of mobile devices to frame religious experience by the creation, consumption and distribution of religious media text. Exploring three iPhone religious {\textquoteleft}apps{\textquoteright}, this article will consider how the iPhone frames religious information and privileges aesthetic styles, which affects how users of the device connect with religious media text and other users. This exploration offers insights into how the iPhone as an object, together with the metaphors and symbols that are incumbent with it, frame religious experience and participation. }, keywords = {cell phone, Christianity, online religions}, url = {http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/swc.2011.0017}, author = {Emerson Teusner, P and Torma, R} }