Papers and publications
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Book sections
“Networked individualism, discursive constructions of community and religious identity: The case of Australian Christian bloggers” in Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships, ed. Francesca Comunello, Hershey: IGI Global, in press. http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=53001
“Formation of a Religious Technorati: Negotiations of Authority among Australian Emerging Church Blogs”, in Digital Religion, ed. Heidi Campbell, London: Routledge, in press.
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
(co-author with Ryan Torma) “iReligion”, Studies in World Christianity, 17:2, 2011.
“Imaging religious identity: intertextual play among postmodern Christian bloggers”, Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet: Vol. 04.1 Special Issue on Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses, 2010.
”New thoughts on the status of the religious Cyborg”, Journal of Technology, Theology & Religion, 1:2, 2010.
(co-author with Peter Horsfield), “A Mediated Religion: Historical perspectives on Christianity and the Internet”, Studies in World Christianity, 13:3, 2007.
“Resident evil: horror film and the construction of religious identity in contemporary media culture”, Colloquium 37:2, 2005.
“Crossing Over or Crossing Out? Young people, popular media and religious language”, Papers from the Trans-Tasman Research Symposium, ‘Emerging Research in Media, Religion and Culture’, RMIT Publishing, July 2005.
Magazine articles and other pieces
(co-author with Heidi Campbell), “Religious authority in the age of the Internet”, in Virtual lives. ed. R. B. Kruschwitz. Waco, The Center for Christian Ethics, Baylor University: 59-68.
“Religion 2.0: heralding a new wave of online religion”, Zadok Perspectives, 98, Autumn 2008.
“Why bother with the mass media?”, The Eagle, 2:3, 2006.
“Mind Body Spirit: the role of spirituality in youth work for resilience”, Journal of UnitingCare Victoria, Melbourne, March 2003.
Media appearances and interviews
Interviewed by Florence Spurling for “Big brother and alternative realities”, Encounter, ABC Radio National, 2 October 2005. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/stories/s1469575.htm
Interviewed by Aleks Krotoski for “What effect has the Internet had on religion?”, The Guardian, 17 April 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/17/untangling-web-aleks-krotoski-religion
Keynote presentations and special invitations
Living in the cloud: configuring the religious Cyborg in a mobile world
Paper presented by invitation to the Global Seminar on Media, Religion and Culture, University of Hyderabad, 2011.
What blogging does to research?
Paper presented by invitation to the Audience Research Symposium, Waikato University, Hamilton NZ 2010.
The religious Cyborg: metaphor for research in online religion
Paper presented by invitation to the Religious Communication Conference, Monash University, Melbourne 2009.
Online religious advertising in Australia
Keynote address to the Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, Methodist University of São Paulo, 2008.
Conference papers
Godcasting: negotiating religious audiences and podcasting communities
Paper presented to the Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto 2010.
The religious Technorati: dealing with religious authority offline and in the blogosphere
Paper presented to Association of Internet Researchers conference, IT University of Copenhagen, 2008.
Emerging church bloggers in Australia: Prophets, priests and rulers in God’s virtual world
Paper presented to the Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, São Paulo, 2008.
Researching identity in the blogosphere: methodological challenges and prospects
Paper presented to Association of Internet Researchers conference, Vancouver, 2007.
Christianity 2.0: A new religion for a new web
Paper presented to Association of Internet Researchers conference, Vancouver, 2007.