Heidi Campbell Vita
July 2008
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Education
Ph.D., University of Edinburgh ( Edinburgh, Scotland) 2002
M.Th. (Theology and Ethics of Communication), University of Edinburgh, 1997
B.A. (Communications), Spring Arbor University, 1992
Teaching
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University . 2005 – present.
Project Lecturer (Religion & Media), Media and Theology Project, University of Edinburgh (2001- 2004)
Books
Exploring Religious Community Online, Peter Lang-Digital Formation Series (2005)
A Science and Religion Primer, (Heidi Campbell & Heather Looy, eds.) Baker Academic (forthcoming 2009).
Articles and Chapters (selected)
H. Campbell, G. Lynch & P. Ward, “Can you hear the Army?: Exploring Evangelical discourse in Scottish youth prayer meetings, Journal of Contemporary Religion (in press, forthcoming 2009)
“Postcyborg Ethics: A New Way to Speak of Technology?”, EME: Exploration in Media Ecology, (in press, forthcoming 2008)
“What Hath God Wrought”: Considering How Religious Communities Culture (or Kosher) the Cell Phone”, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 2007, 21 (2), pp. 191-203.
“Who’s Got the Power? The Question of Religious Authority and the Internet”, Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, 2007, 12(3), URL: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/
H. Campbell & P. Calderon, “The Question of Christian Community Online”, Studies in World Christianity, 2007, 13(3), 261-277.
“Christian Websites” Reviews in Religion and Theology, 2006, 32 (4), pp. 218-219.
“Texting the Faith: Religious Users and Cell Phone Culture ,” Cultural Dialectic of the Cell Phone , A. Kavoori & N. Archeaux (eds), New York : Peter Lang Publishing, 2006, pp. 139-154.
“Making Space for Religion in Internet Studies”, The Information Society, 2005, 21(4), pp. 309-315.
“Considering Spiritual Dimensions within Computer-mediated Communication Studies”, New Media and Society, 2005, 7(1), pp. 111-135.
“Spiritualising the Internet: Uncovering Discourse and Narrative of Religious Internet Usage”, Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religion on the Internet. 2005 , 1(1), URL: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/5824
“Challenges Created by Online Religious Networks”, Journal of Media and Religion , 2004, 3(2), pp. 81-99.
“The Internet as Social-Spiritual Space,” Netting Citizens: Exploring Citizenship in the Internet Age, Johnston MacKay (ed), Edinburgh: St. Andrew's Press, 2004, pp. 208-231.
“This is My Church: Seeing the Internet and Club Culture as Spiritual Space”, Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet, Lorne Dawson & Douglas Cowan (eds), New York : Routledge, 2004, pp. 107-121.
“Congregation of the Disembodied,” Virtual Morality , Mark Wolf (ed), London : Peter Lang Publishing, 2003, pp. 179-199.
“A Review of Religious Computer-Mediated Communication Research,” Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Culture and Religion , Sophia Marriage & Jolyon Mitchell (eds), Edinburgh : T & T Clark/Continuum, 2003, pp. 213-228.
Invited & Contributed Works (selected)
“Religion and the Internet”, Communication Research Trends , 2006, 26(1), pp. 3-24.
“Internet and Cyber Environments” Encyclopaedia of Religion, Communication and Media , Daniel Stout, et al., Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publications/Sage Reference, 2006.
“Religion and Transhumanism: Introducing a Conversation”, The Journal of Evolution and Technology, 2005, 14(2) , URL: http://www.jetpress.org/volume14/specialissueintro.html
“Motion Pictures and Nature” Encyclopaedia of Religion and Nature , Bron Taylor , et al., New York/London: Continuum, 2005.
“Online Communities, Religious” Encyclopaedia of Community , David Levinson, et al., Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publications/Sage Reference, Vol. 3, 2003, pp.1027-1028.
“Pilgrimage” Encyclopaedia of Community , David Levinson, et al., Great Barrington , MA : Berkshire Publications/Sage Reference, Vol. 3, 2003, pp. 1071-1073.
“Understanding the Online Context” 2003 Pfeiffer & Jones Annuals , San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2002, pp. 219-227.
“Ethical Implication of Online Research,” 2002 Pfeiffer & Jones Annuals , San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2001, Vol. 2, pp. 153-158.
Research
Glasscock Faculty Fellow, Project: “Reading New Media Religiously: Technological Discourse in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Communities”, Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, (2006)
Visiting Research Fellow, Project: “Perceptions of technology and contemporary use of new media in Jewish & Muslim communities”, CRI Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Applications, University of Haifa (May-June 2004 & June-July 2006)
Templeton Scholar, Project: “Post-cyborg Ethics” Templeton Oxford Summer Seminars in the Sciences and Religion, Oxford University, (2003-2005)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Project: “The Social-Shaping Power of New Media Networks: Institute for the Advanced Studies of the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, (2003-2004)
AoIR-Ethics Working Group, (2003-present)
Researcher, Project: “Church of Scotland web sites and public citizenship”, Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Edinburgh, (2002)
Project Director, SCOT Project: Youth, Prayer and Spiritual Identity in Scotland, (2002 – 2007)
Pew Younger Scholars Mentoring Team, Project: “Worldview and Rhetorical Analysis of New Media”, (2000- 2002)
Presentations (recent and selected)
How the iPhone Became Divine: Bloggers, Religion & Intertextuality, International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada-May 2008
God, Bible and the Blogosphere: How Online Communities & Bloggers Response to Religious Authority Online [Invited Keynote], American Academy of Religion, Preconf on Religion & New Media (San Diego)-Nov 2007
Approaching Communication Ethics in the Face of New Media, National Communication’s Association, Communication Ethics Preconf (USA)-Nov 2007
Playing with Authority: How Bloggers Frame Religious Authority Online, : Association of Internet Researchers 8.0, (Vancouver, Canada)- Oct 2007
Jew, Muslim, Christian and a Survey: Challenge in Cross Cultural, Inter-Religious Research, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Annual Meeting, (Dallas)- March 2007
Postcyborg Ethics as New Way to Approach Christian Ethics, New Perspectives in Science & Theology Conference (New Zealand)-July 2007
Who's Got the Power? Questions of Religious Authority & the Internet, Glasscock Center for Humanities Research-TAMU, Faculty Colloquium-2006
“Koshering the Cell phone”: Considering the Interaction of Rhetoric, Technology & Religious Community, National Communication's Association Conference, ARST Section (USA)-2006
How Bloggers Construct Religious Identity and Re-present Faith: A Content Analysis, National Communication's Association Conference, SCA Section ( USA)-2006
Religion Online: Looking towards Third Wave Research, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Portland, OR-2006
How Religious Communities Culture (or Kosher) New Media Technologies, Univ. of Colorado- Religion & Fundamentalism Conference-2006
Studying identity construction in alternative worship through the SCOT Project, International Conference on Media, Culture & Religion, Sweden-2006
Are we one in the network? Considering the Past, Present & Future of Research on Religion & Community Online, Univ. of Colorado- Boulder Graduate Symposium-2006
Studying Religious Community, Identity & Online Rituals, American Academy of Religion Annual Convention(Philadelphia)-2005
Religion Online in an Information Society, London School of Economics, Media Studies Lecture ( England )-2005
Mapping the Self Online, Association of Internet Researchers, University of Sussex ( England )-2004
When we were cyborgs: Considering Post-cyborg Ethics, International Conference on Media, Culture & Religion, University of Louisville ( USA )-2004
What is so “New” about New Media?, Association of Internet Researchers, Toronto, Canada-2003
Using New Media as a Platform for Creating Spiritual Networks, Information, Communication and Society Symposium—Oxford Internet Institute-2003
Challenges Created by Online Religious Networks, Computer Networks as Social Networks— University of Haifa –2003
Last Night a DJ Saved my Life: Club Culture and Online Social Networks, Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts Seminar— St Andrews University -2003
The Internet as Social-Spiritual Space, Networking Citizen's Conference— University of Edinburgh (Scotland)-2002
Considering Spiritual Dimensions within Cyberculture Studies, National Communication's Association Conference, RCA Section (USA)-2002
Connecting to the Spiritual Network: Spiritual Communities within the Online Context, Religious Encounters with Digital Networks Conference— (Denmark)-2001
Research Grants
American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant for project entitled “ The role of religious beliefs in shaping attitudes and access to Information and Communication Technologies in Israel ” [$3000]-2006
John Templeton Foundation Grant, for project entitled “A Science and Religion Primer” (grant shared with Dr. Heather Looy, The King's College- Alberta , Canada ) [$29,200]- 2006
Scholarly & Creative Activities Award Grant (TAMU), for project entitled “Using New Media for Religious Identity Construction and its Impact on a Global Information Society” [$9940]-2006
International Research Travel Assistance Grant (TAMU) for project entitled “The role of religious beliefs in shaping attitudes and access to information and communication technologies in Israel ”. [$3300]- 2005
Postdoctoral Honors
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Junior Scholars Award (2006)
Research Fellowship, awarded by CRI for Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Science- Israel (2004)
IASH Postdoctoral Bursary, awarded for 18-months, University of Edinburgh (2003)
Templeton Oxford Summer Seminar in Science & Religion, Oxford University (2003-2005)
Service
Association of Internet Researchers Ethics Working Group (2003- present)
Executive Board of the Association of Internet Researchers (2007-present)
Reviewer for: Journal of Media and Religion, New Media & Society, The Information Society, The Internet Encyclopaedia (Academic Press Publishing Company), Oxford University Press & Columbia University Press (book manuscripts), Reviews in Religion and Theology (Blackwell Publishing).
Comm Departmental Honors committee (2006-present), TCMS conference planning committee (2007-2008), AWIL Mentor (2006-2007), Student Research Week Judge (2006, 2008)
Professional Affiliations
American Academy of Religion
Association of Internet Researchers
International Communication Association
National Communication Association
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