接近过度:媒体作为宗教和新的货物崇拜

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Culture and Religion Pub Date : 2018-07-03 DOI:10.1080/14755610.2018.1489865
Raymond L. M. Lee
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最近对宗教和媒体的研究普遍认为后者对前者的影响具有世俗性质。宗教相关性是与屏幕和网络的媒体文化相抵触的,据称这些媒体文化塑造和重塑了神圣的象征。然而,媒体本身也可以被视为一种神圣的形式,因为它产生了过度。在一个不断扩大的数字宇宙中,媒体创造并传播了大量的信息,淹没了数十亿人的注意力。通过使用数字设备,人们可以预见到无限的数据流,从而使资源和互联互通的实践成为可能,而获取过剩数据的能力使其成为神圣的。这可以与美拉尼西亚的货物崇拜相提并论,在那里,与殖民者接触的当地人期待着无限财富和货物的到来。这种比较可以用来说明媒体的双重面貌,即在其操作系统上是世俗的,在其生产过剩方面是宗教的。这也提出了一个问题,即数字文化中的世俗是否可以被视为完全独立于宗教。
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Access to excess: media as religion and the new cargo cults
ABSTRACT Recent studies of religion and the media generally assume the secular nature of the latter impacting on the former. Religious relevance is set against a media culture of screens and networks that purportedly shape and reshape the symbols of sacredness. Yet the media itself may also be regarded as constituting a form of sacredness in its generation of excess. Within an expanding digital universe, the media creates and channels an abundance of information to overwhelm the attention of billions of people. The power to access excess places the sacred in the resources and practices of interconnectedness made possible by the use of digital devices that readies populations to anticipate limitless flows of data. Parallels can be drawn with the cargo cults of Melanesia where natives in contact with their colonisers came to anticipate the arrival of unlimited wealth and goods. This comparison may be used to illustrate the dual face of the media as secular in its operating system and religious in its production of excess. It also raises the question of whether the secular in digital culture could be treated as if it were wholly autonomous of the religious.
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