[OPLINLIST] LAST CHANCE: Register now for June 5 Conference on Information and Religion

[Cunningham, Flo]

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Register now<https://commerce.cashnet.com/cashnetc/selfserve/BrowseCatalog.aspx> for this year's Conference on Information and Religion<http://www.kent.edu/slis/csir-annual-conference-information-religion>, scheduled for June 5 at Kent State University.

The keynote speaker this year is David H. Michels, M.L.I.S., Ph.D., Head of Public Services, Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, author of the blog “Informing Faith.”

Dr. Michels will speak on "Transforming Religion in the Information Age": New information technologies are increasingly being adopted by religious organizations to support worship, instruction, communication, and engagement with the wider community. How does their use transform the nature of social interactions and religious community — “koinonia” — and where are these changes taking us in the information age?

Under the conference theme "New Technologies and Religious Communities," you'll hear presentations on

·         "Expanding Outreach: there's an app for that";

·         "Relying upon the Sangha as Information Practice: An example from Facebook";

·         "Reel Religion and Real Clergy: A comparison of information use by the fictional and factual faithful";

·         "Social media and mainline Protestant church communities in the Middle West";

·         "Digital Confessions - ‪#‎fatherforgiveme<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fatherforgiveme?source=feed_text&story_id=932343550149279>";

·         "The Use of Reality Television and Social Media by Mormon Fundamentalist Groups. Changing Representations, Minds, and Laws";

·         "Faith Thinking Foundations: Online Religious (Meta)Literacy Education Within a Congregational Context";

·         "The Crossroads of Embracing Content Management: Using the BeagleBone Black Microcomputer to Host Omeka";

·         "Informative, Formative, and Transformative Reading in Christianity and Islam".
And more!

Read more about the conference: http://www.kent.edu/slis/csir-annual-conference-information-religion.

The conference is hosted by the Center for the Study of Religion and Information<http://www.kent.edu/slis/csir> in Kent State’s School of Library and Information Science<http://www.kent.edu/slis>.



All the best,

Flo

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Flo Cunningham
Marketing Communications and Public Relations Specialist
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges

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