I'm a Woman on the Internet, and I've Embraced It

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I'm so used to being, you know, a in conservative spaces that our male dominated. So i'm kind of accustomed to just never fitting in. I think it's something that i don't always think about. Being a woman on the internet does bring with it some other risks and vulnerabilities - but we're not inventing this tech logyis going to exist. Are we adapting to it yet? That's where i'm stumped. But again, another analogy. You know, when travel literature first came out in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century,. People were voyaging around the world and coming back with reports. But then people like jonathan swift would write satirical

This week David and Curtis are joined by Karen Swallow Prior, writer, thinker, and research professor of English and Christianity and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Karen talks to us about the current state of affairs in social media, particularly Twitter, and compares its impact on culture and the church to another critical technology, the printing press. She discusses how these modern technologies are impacting our brains, and how we can push back against this through the simple act of reading, especially the (necessarily slow and contemplative) reading of literature.

Show Notes:

-National Endowment of the Arts - “Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America”

-Caleb Crain (The New Yorker) - “Why We Don’t Read, Revisited”

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-Follow Curtis’ work at RedeemingBabel.org