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Visitors to Center

Professor Knut Lundy, University of Oslo
http://www.intermedia.uio.no/people/home/knutl.html
Fall Semester, 2005

I had the pleasure to be the first Visiting Scholar at the Center for
Media, Religion, and Culture at the University of Colorado in Boulder.  
This center is to become a powerhouse for the international research in
this interdisciplinary field.  The leading scholars of the Center are
world class, and set high quality standards.  I also enjoyed working
with the group of graduate students in the "Lilly seminar" during my
few weeks at the Center. They are not many, but still represent a
global diversity in terms of background; the nations and spiritual
traditions they come from as well as the scholarly background they
represent bring comparative perspectives to the discussions.  I
appreciate how this Center integrates research on uses of the Internet
and other new media with reception patterns of well-established media.
Their ethnographically oriented methods are innovative.  Thus the Center
is able to understand Media, Religion, and Culture in a wider context
of daily practices.

Heidi Campbell, Assistant Professor of Communication, Texas A&M University
http://comm.tamu.edu/people/profiles/campbell.html
February, 2006

I visited the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture in February 2006 to share about my work on religion and the internet and learn from other scholars working in overlapping areas. It was a very stimulating visit and I was impressed by the caliber of the graduate student I interacted with. The center has done a great job of fostering an environment where both student and faculty can openly share their research ideas, pose questions and learn from one another. It was interesting to learn more about the metholodogy the center has developed to study how people create symbolic meaning making through their media interaction. As media, religion and culture is still a developing area of discourse the visit also provided me with an invaluable opportunity to pick the brains of others doing interesting and cutting edge work in related areas, as well as think through new directions my work on religious use of new media could develop.

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