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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag
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"Prosecute Them with Awesome Power": China’s Crackdown on Tengdro Monastery and Restrictions on Communications in Tibet
Human Rights Watch (2021), 63 pp.
"This report provides the first detailed account of the raid on the Tengdro monastery and its consequences, including multiple detentions and a suicide, that has appeared in any media within or outside China. It also provides analysis of what the case shows about conditions in Tibet today and assess
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Religion in the Age of Digitalization: From New Media to Spiritual Machines
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xii, 195 pp.
"Divided into two sections, the chapters included in the first section of the book present case studies from five major religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism and their engagement with digitalization. The second section of the volume explores the moral, ideological but also o
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There's an App for That: Headspace, Meditation, and the Shifting Religious Landscape of a Digital World
Bard College (2020), 50 pp.
"[This publication] is a senior project in Religious Studies that explores the conditions, both historical and clinical, which led to the popularity of the guided meditation app Headspace, and the cultural attitudes that surround mindfulness meditation in America." (Publisher description)
Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 231 pp.
"This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the
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Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xi, 303 pp.
Mindful Communication for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Asia
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New Delhi et al.: Sage (2018), xiv, 353 pp.
"The model of journalism we practice in Asia is an adversarial one driven by conflict reporting, a model we have borrowed from the West. This book is an outcome of a project implemented by the Faculty of Communication Arts of Chulalongkorn University and funded by the International Program for the D
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Handbook of conspiracy theory and contemporary religion
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2018), xiii, 556 pp.
"Conspiracy theories are a ubiquitous feature of our times. The Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive, transnational overview of this phenomenon along with in-depth discussions of how conspiracy theories relate to religion(s).
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Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus
New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2018), viii, 232 pp.
"Contributors consider the ways Buddhism plays a role and is present in digital media through a variety of methods including concrete case studies, ethnographic research, and content analysis, as well as interviews with practitioners and cyber-communities. In addition to considering Buddhism in the
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From Indra's Net to Internet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (2018), x, 273 pp.
"In this sweeping and ambitious intellectual history, Daniel Veidlinger traces the affinity between Buddhist ideas and communications media back to the efflorescence of Buddhism in the Axial Age of the mid-first millennium BCE. He uses both communications theory and the idea of convergent evolution
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Analyzing the “Dhammakaya Case” Online
In: Culture and Communication in Thailand
Patchanee Malikhao
Singapore et al.: Springer (2017), pp. 17-35
"This chapter attempts to assess the information discussed on digital social media such as Twitter, Internet, and Instagram related to the Dhammakaya Temple and its abbot. Content and contextual analyses will be conducted. The research findings will be discussed against the background of modernizati
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Thai Buddhism, the Mass Media, and Culture Change in Thailand
In: Culture and Communication in Thailand
Patchanee Malikhao
Singapore: Springer (2017), pp. 1-16
"This paper attempts to analyze the following:(1) How the Sangha, or the Buddhist body of Thailand, has been impacted since it has become part of the state during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V); (2) How the economic and social development has an impact on Thai Buddhism, especially the anim
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Mindful Communication and Journalism from a Thai Buddhist Perspective
In: Culture and Communication in Thailand
Patchanee Malikhao
Singapore: Springer (2017), pp. 103-116
"From a Buddhist perspective, social change needs transformation of both spiritual and personal aspect. Mindful communication is a methodology to a critical self-reflexivity and social engagement. It is to help us cope with greed, anger, and delusion. For the mass media and the media industry, delus
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Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach
New York et al.: Routledge (2015), viii, 239 pp.
"This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"-drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles-as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and equity to news
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Religion, Hate Speech and Social Media in Myanmar: Analysing Methods of Intervention
University of Winchester, Master Thesis (2015), 77 pp.
"Myanmar is home to one of the longest running intrastate conflicts in the world, involving a series of ethnic and religious clashes that have caused harm to all parties involved. The ideology of a homogeneity based on Buddhism and the Bamar ethnicity has marginalized minority groups, which make up
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The Dragon's Voice: How Modern Media Found Bhutan
St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, updated ed. (2015), 227 pp.
"In The Dragon's Voice, Australian journalist Bunty Avieson provides a glimpse of life beyond the country's exotic exterior. As a consultant to local newspaper Bhutan Observer, she admires the paper's strong social conscience, but finds her expectations challenged in a country where spirituality and
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Enlightening Communication Analysis in Asia-Pacific: Media Studies, Ethics and Law Using a Buddhist Perspective
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 5 (2015), pp. 456-470
"A Western paradigm has dominated approaches to communication and journalism studies – particularly in the areas of theory, analysis and law and ethics. This article backgrounds important critiques of that paradigm, and considers how globalized communication and media studies has become, before ex
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Development and Communication in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
Molefi Kete Asante; Yoshitaka Miike; Jing Yin (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 467-479
"According to Dissanayake, the Sarvodaya movement encompasses the ideal of the harmonious social order and the principle of self-reliance and self-transformation as envisioned and encouraged by Buddhist teaching. The Sarvodaya movement also duly asserts that the idea of development should include no
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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), x, 198 pp.
Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema
In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 157-171
"In this chapter, we have looked at how Buddhism and orality have been translated into film in Bhutan. We have argued, that cinema operates as a secondary oral medium, through the various rituals of production, distribution and consumption and, most significantly, at the level of story construction.
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