Zadok Catalogue 2008

Meda, Information Technology & Communication

Human scale and human pace: thinking about "everyday technology"
Ian Packer
Zadok Perspectives 94, Autumn 2007
As Christians in a technological society didicatied to immediacy, access and connection, how do we respond? How should we be transformed by the renewing of our minds? What virtues are being confronted by the culture of technopoly?

Religion in media.
Howard Langmead
Zadok Perspectives 86, Autumn 2005
There is a belief derived from a study of church history that the Christian church grows faster under persecution. If this is true the Australian church of the future will owe much to some current jounalists.

Would God use Email?
David Lyon
Zadok Perspectives 71, Winter 2001
How do we live with wise priorities in this world of cyber spatial relations and information technology?

The Secrets of Conspiracy Theory.
Paul Mitchell
Zadok Perspectives 66, Autumn 2000
Was this just the 90s, or has conspiracy theory always had such cadence in the public consciousness?

Globalisation and the Network Society.
David Batstone, Christine Parker and Allan Patience
Zadok Perspectives 64, Winter 1999
3 articles: Virtual Civility, by David Batstone. Twenty key essentials for the citizen in a network society. Upside Down Civility, by Christine Parker. A critique and analysis of the network society must consistently remember the reality and power of injustice and discrimination. Is there a theology of glabalisation? by Allan Patience. A response to David Batstone.

Caught in the Crossfire of the Media-Violence Debate.
Daniel Batt
Zadok Perspectives 63, Autumn 1999
The US phenomenon of schoolyard shootings has thrown free speech advocates, gun lobbyists, and self-proclaimed “nerds” into tempests of blame, claim and counter-claim, in an effort to understand the growing incidence of teenage killers.

Fill the Bath with Water, It's nearly Y2K day.
David Millikan
Zadok Perspectives 63, Autumn 1999
Many Christians in particular are obsessed over the darker side of the Y2K problems, always scanning the world for indications that the return of Christ in near.

The Sacred Spaces of Margaret Wertheim.
Paul Mitchell
Zadok Perspectives 63, Autumn 1999
You might be able to get friendship and connection and lots of wonderful things on-line but you sure aren’t going to get looked after when you are sick. And that is why cyber-utopia is effectively the Manichean heresy.

Cyber Tribes of the Global Village: an Interview with Erik Davis.
Paul Mitchell
Zadok Perspectives 62, Spring / Summer 1998/1999
At the frontiers of cybertechnology there are tribes of the global village with names such as “techgnostics” and “extropians” seeking through technology a personal and global salvation. Erik Davis talks about what’s happening at this crossroads of the information superhighway.

Nike: The Mark of the Best
Read Schuchardt
Zadok Perspectives 60, Autumn 1998.
Hitler: “A slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and imputably be the slogan itself.” Seen any Nike ads where that wasn’t the case?

Television: re-shaping our world
Philip Hughes
Zadok Paper S63, 1993
A thought-provoking discussion of how television has contributed to the changes in Australian society since the 1950's. Hughes considers the effect television has had on our view of the world, our family and community, our understanding of sexuality, our attitudes towards violence and materialism, and the plurality of values found in society. Hughes gives helpful ideas on taking control of the television before it controls us.

Religious Beliefs and the Communications Media
Peter Horsfield
Zadok Paper S51, 1991
'Television is simply an electronic channel for our entertainment and information - it has nothing really to do with religion.' Any person agreeing with this statement should read this salutary paper by a well known author of several books on the media. Undoubtedly television and the media are profoundly shaping the world views, beliefs, values and understandings of the generations under its tutelage. Essential reading.

Politics, Morality and Self-Preservation
Anthony Hill
Zadok Paper T24, 1985
Hill reflects on his work as a political journalist and responds to the insights and issues which emerge in the process to assist others to think deeply about their everyday world.

Organising Information
David Millikan
Zadok Paper T1, 1977
A simple but effective manual indexing and record keeping system.

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