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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Subtitles:Thematic Forum on Digital Scholarship and the Critical Study of Religion. Guest editor: James S. Bielo
主要作者: Cantwell, Christopher D. 1980- (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: Routledge [2018]
In: Religion
Year: 2018, 卷: 48, 發布: 2, Pages: 276-290
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 福音派運動 / 講章 / 虛擬社區 / 數位人文
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
KDG Free church
Further subjects:B 數位人文
B Twitter
B Evangelicalism
B 虛擬社區
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總結: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
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2018.1445073