Breaking The Digital Spell

Breaking The Digital Spell

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Breaking The Digital Spell episodes

  • S1E5: Walking By Faith And Sight

    Episode manuscript: https://digitalbabylon.substack.com/p/s1e5-walking-by-faith-and-sight

    "If the delivery is not the same, then the message, quite likely, is not the same. And if the context in which the message is experienced is altogether different from what it was in Jesus’ time, we may assume that its social and psychological meaning is different as well.” - Neil Postman. 

    Produced by Austin Gravley and Andrew Akins. Hosted by Austin Gravley. Mixing/music by Andrew Akins. Additional vocal talent from Melissa Gravley.

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    21 min
  • S1E4: Television's Terms of Engagement

    Episode manuscript: https://digitalbabylon.substack.com/p/s1e4-televisions-terms-of-engagement

    How do you read a book? How do you watch television? How we engage a medium tells us what that medium values - and when it comes to television, it values something completely foreign to the world before it: discourse not through words, but through images. 

    This episode was originally released on August 27th, 2018. 

    Produced by Austin Gravley and Andrew Akins. Hosted by Austin Gravley. Mixing/music by Andrew Akins. Additional vocal talent from Melissa Gravley.

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    24 min
  • S1E3: In The Beginning Were Words

    Episode Manuscript: https://digitalbabylon.substack.com/p/s1e3-in-the-beginning-were-words

    How have changes in technology and media changed the way we think about God? In order to answer this, we must go back to the beginning, and in the beginning...were words. 

    This episode was originally released on September 3rd, 2018. 

    Produced by Austin Gravley and Andrew Akins. Hosted by Austin Gravley. Mixing/music by Andrew Akins. Additional vocal talent from Melissa Gravley.

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    20 min
  • S1E2: Between Optimism And Pessimism

    Episode manuscript: https://digitalbabylon.substack.com/p/s1e2-between-optimism-and-pessimsim

    In thinking about technology and media, its hard to know where to start when considering their effects on our lives. In this episode, we look at three general responses to technology - optimism, pessimism, and ambiguity - and how these responses can help us make sense of the good, bad, and ugly of technology and media. T

    The New York Times article about Amazon: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html 

    This episode was originally released on August 27th, 2018. 

    Produced by Austin Gravley and Andrew Akins. Hosted by Austin Gravley. Mixing/music by Andrew Akins. Additional vocal talent from Melissa Gravley.

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    19 min
  • S1E1: To Ask The Question...

    Episode manuscript: https://digitalbabylon.substack.com/p/s1e1-to-ask-the-question

    Breaking the Digital Spell is not about convincing you to throw your MacBooks out the window, pack your things, and move to the middle of nowhere, free from any technological influence whatsoever. Nor is it about instilling a fear of the device you’re currently listening this into, as though there were some big, grand conspiracy to turn you into some mindless lemming. Instead, Breaking the Digital Spell is a podcast about asking questions about the technology and media we take for granted, and honestly assessing the full range of impact they have on our lives and theology. For more information about Breaking the Digital Spell and for supplemental content related to each week's episode, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter @DigitalSpell. Produced by Austin Gravley and Andrew Akins. Hosted by Austin Gravley. Mixing/music by Andrew Akins. Additional vocal talent from Melissa Gravley. 

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    17 min
  • S1E0: Season One Preview
    For this first season of Breaking the Digital Spell, we are going to look at how changes in technology and media - from the printing press to television, from television to the Internet, from the Internet to social media and beyond - change the way we think about God and what we think about when we think about God. With the help of thinkers like Neil Postman, Nicholas Carr, Alan Noble, and several others, we are going to examine how we got to the digitally-driven world we live in today, and how we think about Christianity in light of the changes this digitally-driven world brought. Some of these changes are good. Some of them, not so good. But we won’t know what to do about it until we start asking questions.

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    4 min

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A podcast that explores the way technology and media shape our thoughts about God and our neighbor. Available wherever you get your podcasts, including YouTube. Visit bio.link.com/digitalspell for…