On page 200 (in Habits of the High-Tech Heart), there is something to which I can say “amen” rather than “now wait a minute”. He writes: A giving servant seeks to be responsible, not successful. A Servant hears the call to responsibility, listens to those being served, and then ministers to them….when we divorce our high-tech endeavors from the goal Continue Reading
In Chapter 8, Sojourning With Heart, Schultze observes: Many lonely, rootless individuals seek solace online, particularly when they cannot find it in person. Although a digital “place” cannot possibly provide the levels of neighborliness and hospitality we need for community, some of those surfing the cyber-diaspora do find temporary comfort there. (p.191) So my question is this: At the very Continue Reading
A defense of Schultze’s arguments (from Habits of the High-Tech Heart) without having to agree in “Legitimate Theological and Sociological Exploration of Online Community” (and then I proceed to say why I don’t agree)
In “Speech vs Online Interaction”, I take issue with the suggestion in Chapter 7 of Habits of the High-Tech Heart that online is not as dialogical, not as personal, and not as “communal”. This seems to be the theme of Schultze’s discussion of Virtual Community. Schultze often takes up the phrase “Real Community” and usually in comparison to “Virtual Community”, Continue Reading
I remember this phrase as being used in some of the “Church Growth” books, encouraging Churches to use some “marketing” techniques and recognize that organizations grow when they avoid too much “diversity”. In Chapter 7, Nurturing Virtue In Community, Schultze identifies this as a tendency of cyberspace: We can talk about cyberspace as a global village, as if it unifies the Continue Reading
I found a blogger who reacts to Habits of the High-Tech Heart, and they notice the absence of alternatives as well.
This blogger (Nathan Bierma) noticed the same thing I did about Habits of the High-Tech Heart, a book to which I have reacted quite a bit over the past week. I recall reading portions of “Dancing in the Dark” several years ago and recall being impressed with it….and so my surprise at finding so much of the “dark side” of technology Continue Reading
Schultze says: “There is no virtual equivalent of hospitality, since [hospitality] occurs in a place”. He reveals his biases once again. Of COURSE there is equivalent. What about the programmer/developer of a Web site online community that does his work and gives his time to provide a place to host discussion and offer ways for users to write weblogs and Continue Reading
In “My problem with anti-Net culture rhetoric”, I state the convictions behind my defense of what Schultze would seem to identify as cyber-utopian faith in technology (from my take on his views as expressed in HABITS OF THE HIGH-TECH HEART. It’s not FAITH in technology, but its “envisioning some possibilities” for how the Church can use the technology to “tell Continue Reading
Cliff at ethics daily.com gives a good interview of Quentin Schultze. I latch onto a couple of the responses and ask some questions —- I know that the interview wasn’t lengthy enough to delve this deeply into speicifics, but having read half the chapters thouroughly and scanned the points of others, I have some question as to whether Schultze has Continue Reading
I’ve been reading, somewhat exasperated at times, Quentin Schultze’s Habits of the High-Tech Heart. He approaches the subject in much the same contrarian, straw-dog argument and “anti-hype” as I remember in Clifford Stoll’s “Silicon Snake Oil” did about 10 years ago. For instance: Contemplative ways of life are not anti-technological as much as pro-community, pro-wisdom, and pro-faithfulness” (p. 197) and Continue Reading
As I remember the way that I was “introduced” to Martin Luther King, Jr. by televesion, and reflect on the new “opportunities” for the Church in “telling a story” on the Web, I am still reading “Habits of the High-tech heart” and continue to find myself saying “Yeah, but….” at nearly every paragraph through where I have read (page 56). Continue Reading
I became an attentive study of Dr. King through media. It began in 1978 when NBC ran a mini-series called “King”, on the 20th anniversary of his assasination. Read more about my coming to revere Martin Luther King, Jr. in “Morality and Media”
Robert Parham of ethicsdaily.com writes about the King speech where King calls on the story of Rip Van Winkle, awaking to find that he had missed the American Revolution: “How can we sleep when the war dogs bark for a clash of cultures? Some in our midst want the American military to crush Islam to advance Christianity. Others want American public schools Continue Reading
My review of “Moderating Our Informational Desires” presents a misunderstanding of Metcalfe’s Law – the value of a network increases at the rate of the square of people using it — Schultze lumps this in with the triumphalism of the Tech-utopians as another example of “More and bigger is better”, but this misses the point.