Items tagged media

• Serial snipers and taco targets

  In this particular season of ghost stories and haunted houses, the maze of fear is difficult to navigate.

• Scared by the screen

  In another self-interview, the author explores the film The Ring and role of horror movies in helping us examine our fears.

• An advertisement for advertising

  An animation featuring some stats about advertising; a good introduction to 'So what?' below.

• So what?

  Analyzing advertising statistics and asking why Christians should care.

• On being single, on being married

  We asked several people to give us their thoughts on being married or single as they are shaped by the media and their own experiences—this is what they said.

• Helping students develop their culture vision

  *cino proposes to expand and market a media discernment curriculum developed by the author that is already being used successfully at Illiana Christian High School.

• I survived The Passion of The Christ

  The long-awaited film is finally here--what can we make of media opinions now that we can finally see it for ourselves?

• Reporting on the source

  A look at how some of the folks connected to *cino choose news sources and discern information.

• Seeking the still point

  A summer in a national park teaches the difference between productivity and fruitfulness.

• None so deaf

  The clandestine motivations of storytelling can find us either apathetic or engaged.

• Heaven’s gated communities

  How did contemporary evangelicalism catch such a dreadful disease?

• No rest, no peace in The Wire

  On the broader implications of the upside down world in David Simon’s Baltimore.

• Fame on film

  How a medium that is itself engulfed in fame has something to teach us about public people.

• Pop culture = low culture?

  An interview about language and culture with a partner in critical blogging.