Preacher_Bot: an experiment in evangelical speech making

This article is an experiment in digital methodology. It applies tools associated with the digital humanities to the study of Protestant evangelicalism in order to ask what digital research methods can offer the study of religion. Beginning with the development of a social media computer program cal...

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Publié dans:Religion
Autres titres:Thematic Forum on Digital Scholarship and the Critical Study of Religion. Guest editor: James S. Bielo
Auteur principal: Cantwell, Christopher D. 1980- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Routledge [2018]
Dans: Religion
Année: 2018, Volume: 48, Numéro: 2, Pages: 276-290
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Mouvement évangélique / Sermon / Réseaux sociaux / Humanités numériques
RelBib Classification:AA Sciences des religions
KDG Église libre
Sujets non-standardisés:B Humanités numériques
B Twitter
B Evangelicalism
B Réseaux sociaux
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:This article is an experiment in digital methodology. It applies tools associated with the digital humanities to the study of Protestant evangelicalism in order to ask what digital research methods can offer the study of religion. Beginning with the development of a social media computer program called a Twitter bot designed to mimic evangelical ministers on twitter, the article considers how digital scholarship allows the work scholars produce to mirror more closely the religious worlds they study. Next, the article analyzes the results of the program using text analysis software. In documenting trends in the bot's output, the article highlights how digital research methods can help answer long-standing questions in the field as well as potentially ask new ones. It concludes, The article, then, is both an exploration of contemporary religious cultures and a consideration of new media methods for analyzing them.
ISSN:1096-1151
Contient:Enthalten in: Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2018.1445073