Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural

Believing in Bits advances the idea that religious beliefs and practices have become inextricably linked to the functioning of digital media. How did we come to associate things such as mindreading and spirit communications with the functioning of digital technologies? How does the internetâs
capacity to facilitate the proliferation of beliefs blur the boundaries between what is considered fiction and fact? Addressing these and similar questions, the volume challenges and redefines established understandings of digital media and culture by employing the notions of belief, religion, and
the supernatural.


Author: Simone Natale
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780190949990

About the Author

Simone Natale is a Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK.

Diana Walsh Pasulka is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.

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