Netflix recently released a documentary/hybrid entitled The Social Dilemma. This film provides an eye-opening background story on many forms of social media, including Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, Tik Tok, Facebook and...
Read MoreChris Hughes’ bombshell editorial has placed the question of Facebook front and center. Unfortunately, the discussion also shows how much in disarray our language is for naming and confronting specifically moral problems. It is...
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I have tried a few times over the past year or two to become a true “Twitter user” (@cloutiertheo)...
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I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my...
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The Catholic News Service reports that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, met with the...
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The following is a guest post by Jim Caccamo of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies,...
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The following is a guest post from Joshua Hochschild, associate professor of philosophy and Dean...
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This weekend marks the fifteenth anniversary of the release of the film The Matrix. Widely praised for both its technical wizardry and philosophically-charged narrative when it was released, I would argue that many of the themes raised by The Matrix are even more relevant today than fifteen years ago and therefore merit revisiting. Developments such as Web 2.0, social media, and the digitalization of culture have created a sort of virtual reality only embryonic in form in 1999. Although certainly not a “Christian” film, in its critique of contemporary culture The Matrix appeals to themes central to the Christian worldview and raises issues that demand the attention of Christian ethicists.
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In an observation that has stayed with me since 2008, Jim Caccamo wrote in “The Message on the...
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A standard trope against mobile technologies and social media is that they are isolating, cutting...
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(Note: Guest poster Brian Green from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara...
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In a recent issue, the Chronicle of Higher Education noted that students thought that in class...
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