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15. NT Wright on Blogging/Social Media
2 years ago
This is NT Wright's response to my question on his opinion of blogging during Imbi Medri-Kinnon's interview shoot with the Bishop of Durham in 2007. Portions of this interview appear in her documentary, Mind the Gap - where she looks at the challenge for church leadership in the 21st Century.

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  • Mike Gastin 2 years ago
    Bill, nice piece. Thanks for sharing it. I liked hearing Wright call social media 'a type of social masturbation'. He may be correct.
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  • wiselywoven 2 years ago
    I have great respect for Mr. Wright but I think based on his critique, books have the potential to be far more dehumanizing than online communications. I would love to hear him apply his critique to the literary world.

    Great video!
  • I think your comment would hold water if access to printing presses were as ubiquitous as access to the web.

    As an introvert, I found Wright's comment to be an effective rebuke for my tendency to prefer to interact via keyboard and pushed pixels rather than face to face. Which is why I put this up.
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  • wiselywoven 2 years ago
    Hi Bill, I agree with you; our tendency to misuse the medium is very real. I also wonder though if the critique is really in how we use it and not just in online communication as a platform itself.

    Sounds like a question for Neil Postman.

    -shalom!
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  • Erik Deckers 1 year ago
    I disagree with Bishop Wright on a number of issues:

    First, he assumes that people who blog or use social media don't have any other form of social interaction like work or school.

    Second, he uses email and texting, but thinks the newer technology is bad? People said the same things about email and the Internet being socially isolating in the early 1990s, and they said the same thing about the telephone in the early 1900s, but we've since discarded those POVs.

    There is always some naysayer who decries the latest technology, but has also admitted to never using it. As someone who is a professional blogger and social media consultant, I can tell you that these technologies are no more socially limiting than any of the other communication technologies we've created in the last 100 years.

    The tendency to misuse the medium is there, but there is a tendency to misuse ANYTHING, technological or otherwise. But don't recommend against it for everyone just because a few people use it incorrectly.
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