Social Media-Related Articles

(In no particular order)

• Snapchat 2.0 Is No Passing Fad,  by Josh Constine (Techcrunch.com)

• Student Pastors, Stop Being Afraid of Snapchat! by Chris Martin (MillennialEvangelical.com)

• 11 Smart Ways You Can Use Periscope for Your Church Communications, by Steve Fogg

• Six Reasons Church Leaders Should Use Periscope, by Thom S. Rainer

• How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil, by Vindu Goel (New York Times)

•  How Social Marketing Techniques Can Be Used for Social Good (Adweek)

• A Visual Guide to Social Media Best Practices, by Rebekah Radice 

• Six-Year-Olds Understand Digital Technology Better than Adults, by Juliette Garside (The Guardian): 

• Eating the Apple, by Sam Sawyer, SJ (why Apple products inspire so much devotion, and what the Church can learn from that): 

• Why NonProfits Fail at Social Media—and How to Do it Better, by  Rebecca Andruszka

• Social Media in the Changing Ecology of News: The Fourth and Fifth Estates in Britain, by Newman, Nic; Dutton, William H.; Blank, Grant (2012).

• Facebook's newest privacy settings (good news/bad news): "Facebook has only 'pivoted' on one kind of privacy..." by David Meyer.
 

• Setting Social Media Limits for Children by Catherine Pearlman.


• "Changing our Minds: Virtue Ethics for a Digital Age" by Christine Neulieb (the spiritual questions and issues raised by the way our brains function on and are acted on by the Internet).


• Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction by Matt Richtel (New York Times); More from brain science. 


• "...Growing Up Digital Misses the Mark" by Don Tapscott: rebuttal of the above, citing brain science.

• "How to Raise Boys That Read" by Thomas Spence: Be sure to read the many, many comments for a lively conversation on the state of boys' reading (and the connection with "screen time"); some criticisms of current educational model.
 

• "Social Media Actually Strengthen Social Ties..."  Newswire article


• "The See-Through CEO" by Clive Thompson
 

• "Steve Jobs in the Garden of Good and Evil" by Eric Felten


• "We're Really all Victims of the Porn Boom" by Katherine Kersten


• "The Next Small Thing" by Spence E. Ange, Heather Green, and Catherine Holahan


• "Pauline Voices and Presence as Strategic Communication" by Richard F. Ward


• "Bridging the Gap Between Stewards and Creators" by Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan (This article focuses on issues between management and research/development in high-tech corporations, but much of what it treats is applicable to any institution dealing with change!)


• "Media and the Spirit of God: Redefining the human person" by John B. Foley: This was printed in The Way; a contribution to their Solidarity Fund is encouraged.