Vatican radio is reducing is use of Short and Medium Wave radio transmissions to most of Europe and the United States, and replace them with new communications technologies. The move, announced by Director General of Vatican Radio, Fr Federico Lombardi, SJ, is to happen on July 1. Lombardi said newer developments in communications technology meant Read more
A professor at MIT who is also a psychologist, Sherry Turkle says that her students are almost able to keep eye contact with someone while texting to another person. In her opinion, such people are “alone together … a tribe of one”. Those who have 3,000 Facebook friends have no friends. In his opinion piece, Simon Jenkins Read more
Online misogyny is currently hitting the headlines, with prominent women columnists testifying to an unrelenting tide of sexually motivated aggression. It’s a narrative with which I have an enormous amount of sympathy, for as a female blogger I find that my comments box fills up with remarks of a sexually abusive nature with alarming alacrity. Read more
A Connecticut judge recently ordered a divorcing couple to disclose their Facebook and online dating passwords. The soon-to-be-ex-husband and wife, Courtney and Stephen Gallion wont just be giving up their investments, cars, TV’s and children, but also their Facebook passwords. It is well known evidence from social networking sites is useful for divorces, and their Read more
Tens of millions of Church of England dollars invested in Internet Service Providers (ISP) is under threat unless the ISP’s take action to curb internet pornography. Senior Church of England officials are conducting a wide-ranging review of the church’s holdings, and its Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) was considering new guidelines on porn, which addresses Read more
Online, God has been released from traditional doctrine to become everything to everybody. I remember several years ago, when the virtual world Second Life was the thing on the web, wandering in the embodiment of my avatar through a most extraordinary representation of a cathedral. The frescoes, stained glass and flying buttresses were replicated to Read more
Internet evangelisation in China has not developed much and even appears to be at a standstill. Not surprising, perhaps, in a country where internet access is severely curtailed thanks to its infamous Great Firewall. Most netizens know there is a way to “scale the wall” but even so, if you are a webmaster of any Read more
The Internet now has its own red-light district. Ironically it’s a move opposed by Church and pornography groups. On Friday, the company tasked with managing domain names, ICANN, put an end to a ten year battle and authorised the creation of the .xxx domain name suffix, a domain category which caters specifically for pornography. The Read more