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Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus
explores Buddhist practice and teachings in an increasingly
networked and digital era. 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
context of technologies such as virtual worlds, social media, and
mobile devices, authors ask how the Internet affects identity,
authority and community, and what effect this might have on the
development, proliferation, and perception of Buddhism in an online
environment. Together, these essays make the case that studying
contemporary online Buddhist practice can provide valuable insights
into the shifting role religion plays in our constantly changing,
mediated, hurried, and uncertain culture.
Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus
explores Buddhist practice and teachings in an increasingly
networked and digital era. 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
context of technologies such as virtual worlds, social media, and
mobile devices, authors ask how the Internet affects identity,
authority and community, and what effect this might have on the
development, proliferation, and perception of Buddhism in an online
environment. Together, these essays make the case that studying
contemporary online Buddhist practice can provide valuable insights
into the shifting role religion plays in our constantly changing,
mediated, hurried, and uncertain culture.
IDH Religion provides a series of short introductions to specific
areas of study at the intersections of digital humanities and
religion, offering an overview of current methodologies,
techniques, tools, and projects as well as defining challenges and
opportunities for further research. This volume explores DH and
Buddhism in four sections: Theory and Method; Digital Conservation,
Preservation and Archiving; Digital Analysis; Digital Resources. It
covers themes such as language processing, digital libraries,
online lexicography, and ethnographic methods. Erratum:
Unfortunately there is a mistake in the print version in the last
paragraph of page 14. READ is an open-source software system
developed by a team consisting of Stefan Baums at the Bavarian
Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Andrew Glass in Seattle, Ian
McCrabb at the University of Sydney and Stephen White in Venice
(https://github.com/readsoftware/read).
Buddhism is gaining popularity among Internet users at a faster
rate than any other religion. 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 B.C.E. He
uses both communications theory and the idea of convergent
evolution to show how Buddhism arose in the largely urban milieu of
Axial Age northeastern India and spread rapidly along the
transportation and trading nodes of the Silk Road, where it
appealed to merchants and traders from a variety of backgrounds.
Throughout, he compares early phases of Buddhism with contemporary
developments in which rapid changes in patterns of social
interaction were also experienced and brought about by large-scale
urbanization and growth in communication and transportation. In
both cases, such changes supported the expansive consciousness
needed to allow Buddhism to germinate. Veidlinger argues that
Buddhist ideas tend to fare well in certain media environments;
through a careful analysis of communications used in these
contexts, he finds persuasive parallels with modern advances in
communications technology that amplify the conditions and effects
found along ancient trade routes. From Indra's Net to Internet
incorporates historical research as well as data collected using
computer-based analysis of user-generated web content to
demonstrate that robust communication networks, which allow for
relatively easy contact among a variety of people, support a
de-centered understanding of the self, greater compassion for
others, an appreciation of interdependence, a universal outlook,
and a reduction in emphasis on the efficacy of ritual-all of which
lie at the heart of the Buddha's teachings. The book's
interdisciplinary approach should appeal to those interested in not
only Buddhism, media studies and history, but also computer
science, cognitive science, and cultural evolution.
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