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The following is a list of all of the publications that were produced as part of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at the University of Colorado from 1998-2006. Book Signing Image Most of these efforts have been produced as a result of generous support from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., under their office of Religion and Public Life.

[Publication list last updated: 5/20/06]


Photo: Co-authors of the book, Media, Home, and Family (Routledge 2004). 

Pictured: Dr. Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver; Dr. Joseph G. Champ, Colorado State University; Dr. Lee Hood, University of Colorado; Dr. Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado; and Dr. Diane Alters, Assistant City Editor, Denver Post.

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Lynn Schofield Clark, editor. Religion, Media, and the Marketplace. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. www.rutgerspress.rutgers.edu

Stewart M. Hoover, Religion in the Media Age.  London: Routledge, 2006.www.routledge.com

Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark, and Diane Alters, with Joseph Champ and Lee Hood. Media, Home, and Family. New York: Routledge, 2004. www.routledge-ny.com

 

Lynn Schofield Clark. From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural. New York: Oxford University Press , 2003 (paperback 2005). (ucsu.Colorado.edu/~clarkl/angelalien.htm).

Stewart M. Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark, editors. Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion and Culture. Columbia University Press, 2002. (www.columbia.edu)

Stewart M. Hoover. Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998.

Stewart M. Hoover and Knut Lundby. Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1997.

Stewart M. Hoover. Mass Media Religion: The Social Sources of the Electronic Church. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1998.

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Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

2007

Clark, L.S.  (2007).  Introduction: Religion, Media, and Marketplace: Identity, Belonging, and the Emergence of Religious Lifestyle Branding.  In L.S. Clark (Ed.), Religion, Media, and the Marketplace.  Rutgers University Press.

Clark, L.S.  (2007).  Foreword.  In L.S. Clark (Ed.), Religion, Media, and the Marketplace.  Rutgers University Press.

Clark, L.S.  (2007).  Section and chapter introductions (seriatum). In L.S. Clark (Ed.), Religion, Media, and the Marketplace.  Rutgers University Press.

Emerich, M. (2006).  Spiritual Land, Contested Narratives: Spiritual Interpretations of Cornwall's Landscapes and Implications for Cornish Political Economy. In Garry Tregidga, Ed., Landscape Narratives.

Hoover, S. M.  (2007). "Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Dialogue," in Karen Tracy, (ed.) Handbook of Communication Research Methodologies, Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

2006

Clark, L.S.  (2006).  Religion, Twice Removed: Exploring the Role of Media in Religious Understandings among ‘Secular’ Young People.  In N. Ammerman (Ed.), Religion and Modern Lives: Ethnographic Interventions.  Oxford University Press.

Clark, L.S. (Forum Guest Editor) (2006, December). Introduction. Special Issue on Religion, Globalization, and Popular Music.  Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Emerich, M. (2006). Constructing ‘Celticity’: How Pagans Define Celtic Spirituality on the World Wide Web, in Narratives of Community. G. Tregidga (Ed.). Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press.

Hoover, S. M. and L.S. Clark (2006). "Media, Home, and Family," in Livingstone and Drotner, (eds.) International Handbook of Children, Media, and Culture, London: Sage.

2005

Clark, L.S., C. Demont-Heinrich, & S. Webber. (2005, December). Parents, ICTs, and Children’s Prospects for Success: Interviews along the Digital “Access Rainbow.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 22(5): 409-426.

Clark, L.S. (2005, September). Globalizing Popular Communication Audience Research: Looking to our Sister Fields for New Directions.  Popular Communication3(3). Also served as Special Issue Guest Editor.

Clark, L.S.  (2005).  The Emergence of Religious Lifestyle Branding: Fashion Bibles, Bhangra Parties, and Muslim Pop.  In P. Horsfield (Ed.)  Papers from the Trans-Tasman Research Symposium, Emerging Research in Media, Religion and Culture.  Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, pp. 22-39.

Clark, L.S. (2005). The Constant Contact Generation: Exploring Teen Friendship Networks Online. In S. Mazzarella (Ed.), Girl Wide Web. New York: Peter Lang.

Emerich, M.  (2006). Media, Markets and Morality: The Mediated Spirituality of Sustainable Living. In Karen Salamon and Dr. Martin Ramstedt, eds. 

Emerich, M. (2006).  Spiritual Land, Contested Narratives: Spiritual Interpretations of Cornwall's Landscapes and Implications for Cornish Political Economy. Cornish History Journal.

Hoover, Stewart M. “Islands in the Global Stream: Television, Religion, and Geographic Integration,” Studies in World Christianity (11) no. 1, (2005) pp. 125-143.

Hoover, Stewart M. and Jin Kyu Park. (2005) “Digital religion in the media age: Field notes from the household setting,” in Rothenbuhler, Eric, and Mihai Coman, eds., Media Anthropology.  London: Sage.

Park, J.K. (2005), "Mediated Korean Shamanism in Late Modern Popular Culture: From the Perspective of Media and Religion," Korean Cultural Studies 11.

Park, J.K. (2005), "Creating My Own Cultural and Spiritual Bubble: Case of Cultural Consumption by Spiritual Seeker Anime Fans," Culture and Religion6(3). pp. 393-413.

Park, J.K. (2005), "'Are you Christian? I'm the Other: The Demarcation of Christianity and the Other in Popular Korean Television," Studies in World Christianity 11(1), pp. 106-124.

2004

Alters, D. and L. S. Clark. (2004). Introduction: Media, Home, and Family. In S.H. Hoover, L.S. Clark, D. Alters, J. Champ, and L. Hood. Media, Home, and Family (pp. 3-18). New York: Routledge.

Alters, D. and L.S. Clark. (2004). Conclusion: The ‘Intentional and Sophisticated’ Relationship. In .S.H. Hoover, L.S. Clark, D. Alters, J. Champ, and L. Hood. Media, Home, and Family (pp. 171-180). New York: Routledge.

Clark, L.S. (2004). The Journey from Post-Positivist to Constructivist Methods. In .S.H. Hoover, L.S. Clark, D. Alters, J. Champ, and L. Hood. Media, Home, and Family (pp. 19-34). New York: Routledge.

Clark, L.S. (2004). Being Distinctive in a Mediated Environment: The Ahmeds and the Paytons. In S.H. Hoover, L.S. Clark, D. Alters, J. Champ, and L. Hood. Media, Home, and Family (pp. 79-102). New York: Routledge.

Clark, L.S., and D. Alters. (2004). Developing A Theory of Media, Home, and Family. In .S.H. Hoover, L.S. Clark, D. Alters, J. Champ, and L. Hood. Media, Home, and Family (pp. 35-50). New York: Routledge.

Clark, L.S. (2004). Religion and Media in a Postnational, Postmodern World. In P. Horsfield, M. Hess, and A. Medrano (Eds.), Belief in Media. London: Ashgate.

Clark, L.S., S. Webber , and C. Demont-Heinrich. (2004). Ethnographic Interviews on the Digital Divide. New Media & Society 6.

Hood, L., L.S. Clark, J. Champ, and D. Alters. (2004). The Case Studies: An Introduction. In .S.H. Hoover, L.S. Clark, D. Alters, J. Champ, and L. Hood. Media, Home, and Family (pp. 69-78). New York: Routledge.

Hoover, S.M., L.S. Clark., and L. Rainie.  (2004).  Faith Online.  A study of the Pew Internet & American Life Project (in collaboration with the Lilly Endowment).  Available online at: http://www.pewinternet.org

Hoover, S.M. and J.K. Park. (2004). Religion and Meaning in the Digital Age: Field Research on Internet/Web Religion.  In P. Horsfield, M. Hess, and A. Medrano (Eds.), Belief in Media. London: Ashgate.

Russo, A. and Clark, L.S. (2004). New Media in Single Parent Households. Technology and Everyday Life, a compedium of conference papers.


2003

prime time animation imageAlters, D. (2003). “We Hardly Watch that Rude, Crude Show: Class and Taste in The Simpsons,” in Return to Springfield: Prime-Time Animation and Cultural Contexts, Carol A. Stabile and Mark Harrison, (eds), London: Routledge.

Clark, L.S. (2003). Challenges of Social Good in the World of ‘Grand Theft Auto’ and ‘Barbie’: A Case Study of a Community Computer Center for Youth. New Media & Society 5(1): 95-116.

Clark, L.S. (2003). The ‘Funky’ Side of Religion: An Ethnographic Study of Adolescent Religious Identity and the Media. In J. Mitchell and S. Marriage (Eds.), Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion, and Culture (pp. 21-32). London: Continuum.

Clark, L.S. (2003). Baby Boomers and Their Millennial Kids: ‘Folk’ Definitions of Religion and Their Relation to Culture. In A.L. Greil (Ed.), Defining Religion: Investigating the Boundaries Between the Sacred and Secular (pp. 221-240). Religion and the Social Order Series Vol. 10. JAI Press: Elsevier Science.

Hoover, S.H. (2003). Religion, Media, and Identity. In J. Mitchell and S. Marriage (Eds.), Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion, and Culture. London: Continuum.

Hoover, S.H. (2003). Religion, Politics, and the Media. In Edith Blomhofer (Ed.), Religion, Politics, and the American Experience. University of Alabama Press.

2002

Clark, L.S. (2002). U.S. Adolescent Religious Identity, the Media, and the ‘Funky’ Side of Religion. Journal of Communication 52 (4):794-812.

Clark, L.S. (2002). Overview: The ‘Protestantization’ of Research into Media, Religion, and Culture. In Hoover, S.H. and Clark, L.S. (Eds.) Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion and Culture. Columbia University Press.

Hoover, S.H. (2002). The Culturalist Turn in Scholarship on Media and Religion. Journal of
Media and Religion
, Inaugural issue.


2001
Hoover, S.H. (2001). Media and Visual Culture. In D. Morgan and S. Promey (Eds.), The Visual Culture of American Religions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.


1998

Clark, L.S. Dating on the Net: Teens and the rise of “pure” relationships. In S. Jones (Ed.), Cybersociety 2.0 (pp. 159-183). Thouand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Clark, L.S. Identity, Discourse, and Media Audiences: A Critical Ethnography of the Role of Visual Media in Religious Identity-Construction among U.S. Adolescents (Dissertation abstract). Javnost (The Public): Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture 5(2): 106-107.

1997

Clark, L.S. and Hoover, S.H. Controversy and Cultural Symbolism: A Case Study of the RE-Imagining Event. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 14(4): 310-331.

Clark, L.S. and Hoover, S.H. At the Intersection of Media, Culture, and Religion: A Bibliographic Essay. In S. Hoover and K. Lundby (Eds.), Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture (pp. 15-36). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Hoover, S.H. and Clark, L.S. Negotiating the Boundary between Religion and the Media: The Case Study of the RE-Imagining Controversy. Review of Religious Research 39(2): 153-171.

 

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Published Reviews

2007

Clark, L.S.  (2007).  Book review, There’s Never Been a Show Like Veggie Tales.  AltaMira, 2006.  Sociology of Religion.

2006

Clark, L.S.  (2006, June).  Religion and Media, American Style (Book Review Essay on Heather Hendershot’s Shaking the World For Jesus, David Chidester’s Authentic Fakes, and Sean McCloud’s Making the American Religious Fringe).  American Quarterly.

Clark, L.S.  (2006).  Book review, The Internet and Soceity, by Maria Bakardjieva.  Routledge press, 2004.  New Media & Society.

2005

Clark, L.S.  (2005).  Book review, Soul Searching, by Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton.  Oxford University Press, 2005.  In Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44(4): 497-498.

Clark, L.S.  (2005).  Book review, Rave Culture and Religion, by Graham St. John.  Journal of Media and Religion.

2004
Clark, L.S. (2004). Book review, Karaoke Nights, by Rob Drew. Popular Communication, 2(1).

2003
Clark, L.S. (2003). Book review, Habits of the High-Tech Heart, by Quentin Schultze. Journal of Calvinist Studies, in press.

2002
Clark, L.S. (2002). Book review, Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises, by Jeffrey Hadden and Douglas Cowan (Eds.). Sociology of Religion.

2001
Clark, L.S. (2001). Book review, Television and New Media Audiences, by Ellen Seiter. Journal of Communication 51 (2): 435-437.

Clark, L.S. (2001). Book review, God in the Movies, by Albert J. Bergeson and Andrew Greeley. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 40(3): 558-559.

Clark, L.S. (2001). Book review, Spiritual Manifestos, by Niles Elliot Goldstein (Ed.). Review for Religious.

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Published Reviews of Our Work


Encyclopedia Entries

2006

Hoover, S. M.  (2006). “Media Marketplace,” in Stout, Daniel, ed., Encyclopedia of Media and Religion.

2005

Clark, L.S. (2005). Popular Culture. In David Morgan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: MacMillan.

Hoover, Stewart M. "Media," Helen Rose Ebaugh (ed). Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions. (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research) New York: Springer, 2005.

2004

Clark, L.S. (2004). The WB Network. In Horace Newcomb (Sen.Ed.), Encyclopedia of Television. New York: MacMillan.

Clark, L.S. (2004). Touched by an Angel. In Horace Newcomb (Sen.Ed.), Encyclopedia of Television. New York: MacMillan.

Clark, L.S. (2004). Angela Lansbury. In Horace Newcomb (Sen.Ed.), Encyclopedia of Television. New York: MacMillan.

Hoover, S.M.  (2004).  Media.  In D. Morgan (Sen.Ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Edition.  Macmillan.


2001

Clark, L.S. (2001). Fundamentalists and the Entertainment Media. In Brenda Brasher (Sen.Ed.), Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism. New York: Routledge.

2000

Clark, L.S. (2000). Angels. In Wade Clark Roof (Sen. Ed.), Encyclopedia for Contemporary American Religion. New York: Macmillan.

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Academic presentations and conferences, 1998-2006

2006

Clark, L.S.  (2006, February).  Keynote presentation, Coming of Age in the Reel and Real Worlds of the Garden State.  Butler University. Clark, L.S. (2006, March). Keynote presentation, Media, Home, and Family. Emory University.

Clark, L.S. (2006, August).  Invited presentation on teaching communication ethics through service learning. Annual meeting of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Clark, L.S.  (2006, June).  New Media and Authority in the Classroom.  Paper presented for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany.

Clark, L.S.  (2006, June).  Youth and Civic Engagement.  Paper to be presented for the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany.

Clark,L.S.  (2006, July).  Young journalists, vocation, and civic engagement.  Paper to be presented for the Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Sigtuna, Sweden. Clark, L.S.  (2006, July).  Author Meets Critics: Review of From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and Beliefs in the Supernatural.  Response to be presented for the Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Sigtuna, Sweden.

Hoover, S. M. (2006, July) Roundtable presentation to the Porticus International Seminar on Media and Religion, Basel, Switzerland.

Hoover, S. M. and Monica Emerich (2006, July) “Meaning and Civic Engagement,” paper presented to the Fifth International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Sigtuna, Sweden.

Hoover, S. M. (2006, June) “Media, Meaning, and Making of Civic Engagement: Locations, Discourses, Institutions and Values,” paper presented to the Annual Meeting, International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany.

Hoover, S. M. (2006, June) “Media and Public Connection,” Remarks to roundtable on media and public connection, Annual Meeting, International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany.

Hoover, S. M. (2006, June) “Understanding Meanings and Spiritualities,” paper presented to master seminar on media, religion and meaning, University of Amsterdam.

2005

Clark, L.S.  (2005, November).  The Emergence of Religious Lifestyle Branding: Fashion Bibles, Muslim Pop, and Bhangra Parties.  Keynote presentation, Conference on Religion and Media, Tehran, Iran.

Clark, L.S. and M. Emerich. (2005, November).  Ethical Dilemmas of Team-Based Research.  Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Rochester, NY.

Clark, L.S. (2005, November).  Popular Music, Popular Religion, and Globalization: Self-Branding through Music Purchases. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Rochester, NY.

Clark, L.S.  (2005, November). The History of Media Studies in Media, Religion, and Culture Scholarship.  American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, PA.

Clark, L.S. (2005, July).  The Emergence of Religious Lifestyle Branding: Fashion Bibles, Bhangra Parties, and Muslim Pop.  Presentation to the Symposium on Religion and Media, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Clark, L. S. (2005, June).  The Constant Contact Generation: Interview-Based Material from Teens.  Presented at the Digital Kids Symposium, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation.

Clark, L.S.  (2005, May). Rethinking the Majority: Considering Ideology in Qualitative Audience Research.  International Communication Association, New York, New York.

Clark, L.S.  (2005, March).  Pop Culture Meets Pop Religion: Fashion Bibles, Hindi Nightclubs, and Muslim Pop.  Keynote presentation to the Graduate Student Symposium, Indiana University.

Coats, C. (November 2005). “God, Man, then … wait, how’d that go?: Examining emerging gender identities among 20-something Evangelicals.” Presented at 2005 Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, PA.

Eastman, C. (January 2005). ”A New View of Missions - Accompaniment in Nicaragua." Presented at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Boulder.

Eastman, C.  (July 2005)"Accompaning our Nicaraguan Companion Synod." Presented as part of the Global University - Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) Global Mission Event, Fargo, ND.

Eastman, C. (November 2005)"South African and Egyptian Media Coverage of Darfur." Presented at the Sudan Awareness Conference - Univ. of CO, Boulder.

Emerich, M. and L.S. Clark.  (2005, February).  Quilting Identities: Threading the Researcher Self with the Informant Other in the Construction of Interpretations. Presented at the Couch-Stone Symbolic Interactionist Conference, University of Colorado.

Hoover, S.M. (2005, December) “Religion in the Media Age,” public lecture, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hoover, S. M. (2005, December) “Narrative as a Tool in Audience Research,” lecture to the graduate research symposium, Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hoover, S. M. (2005, December) Co-Leader, Doctoral Fellowship Seminar, The Gregorian University, Rome. Hoover, S.M. (2005, November) “The Mediation of Religion,” keynote address to the First Tehran Conference on Religion and the Media, Tehran, Iran.

Hoover, S. M. (2005, September-October) Consultations with visiting scholar Knut Lundby of the University of Oslo on research and publication strategies.

Hoover, S. M. (2005, July) Co- organizer and respondent to the Symposium on Religion and Media, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Park, J.K. "'Magical Fantasy' or 'Satanic Occultism': Evangelical Christian Communities' Critique of Children's Media and Popular Culture," International Communication Association, New York. May, 2005.

Park, J.K. "A TV Drama from the Perspective of Media and Religion," Institute of Folklore Studies, Kyung Hee University. Seoul, April 2005.

Park, J.K. "A TV Drama from the Perspective of Media and Religion," Institute of Folklore Studies, Kyung Hee University. Seoul, April 2005.

2004

Clark, L.S., M. Miles, and K. Lustiyk.  (2004, May).  Seek the Truth (But let the Search Engine Find It).  Paper Presented to the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans.

Clark, L.S.  (2004, May).  The Ethnographic Turn in the Humanities, Sociology, and Anthropology: Emergent directions for Audience Studies.  Paper presented to the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans.

Clark, L.S.  (2004, May).  Touched by a (Vampire Named) Angel: Or, is Buffy a Celebration of the Occult?  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Console-ing Passions Conference of cultural studies media researchers and activists, New Orleans.

Clark, L.S.  (2004, June).  Exploring ‘Revolve’: The New Testament for Teens.  Paper presented to the Cultural Studies Crossroads conference, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Clark, L.S.  (2004, September).  Spiritual support from Afar: The Case of Caleb Baylor and Email.  Paper presented at the 4th Public International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Louisville, KY.

Clark, L.S.  (2004, September).  Spirituality Online: Teen Friendship Circles and the Internet.  Paper presented at the 4th Public International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Louisville, KY.

Clark, L.S.  (2004, October).  Exploring ‘Revolve,’ the New Testament for Teens at the Intersection of Religion, Media, and the Marketplace.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Kansas City, MO.

Clark, L.S.  (2004, October).  Faith Online: Rethinking the Teen Seeker. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Kansas City, MO.

Clark, L.S.  (2004, November).  Exploring ‘Revolve’ and ‘Refuel’ at the Intersection of Religion, Media, and the Marketplace.  Presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX.

Clark, L.S.  (2004, November).  Responding to Critics: Part of an ‘Author Meets Critics’ session on From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural.  Presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX.

Coats, C.  (2004, November).  Market Produce: Veggie Tales and the Middle Class as Moral Ideal.  Presented to the Southwest Education Conference of the Association for Journalism and Mass Communication, Little Rock, AR.

Emerich, M.  (2004, May).  The Moral and Economic Profits of ‘Sustainable Spirituality’: A Case Study of Natural Business Communications and the ‘LOHAS’  Model for Social Change. Presented at International Communication Association, New Orleans.

Emerich, M.  and S.M. Hoover.  (2004, September).  Tele-Visions of a ‘Good Life’: How Individuals Use Television for Moral Reflections on Self and Society.  Presented at Media, Religion and Culture Conference, Louisville, KY.

Emerich, M.  (2004, October).  Interconnected, Interdisciplinary and International: A Fresh Look at Celtic Cultural Studies. Opening speech at Celtic Representations conference, University of Colorado, Center for British and Irish Studies.

Hoover, S.M. (2004, September).  Narratives of the Self in Research on Internet Identity,” Association of Internet Researchers, University of Sussex, UK.

Hoover, S.M.  and Clark, L.S. (2004, September).  Personal Religion Online.  Association of Internet Researchers, University of Sussex, UK.

Hoover, S.M.  (2004, September).   Faith Online: Quantitative Research on Internet Religion.  Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Louisville, KY.

Hoover, S.M. and J. K. Park.  (2004, May). Religious Meaning-Making in the Media Age: Categories of Household Practice. International Communication Association, New Orleans. 

Hoover, S.M.  (2004, October).  Digital Religion,”  Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Kansas City, October, 2004.

Park, J. (2004, May).  Expressive Production of Religion through Virtuality: Theorization of the Internet as a Medium for Religious Expression. Paper presented to the International Communication Association 54th Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Park, J.  (2004, May). Virtual Ethnography or Ethnography of Virtuality?: Methodological Analysis of Ethnographic Research of the Internet. Paper presented to the International Communication Association 54th Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Park, J.  (2004, June).   Mediated Meanings and the Self: Media Audiences’ Strategies for Presentation of Religious Self and Identity. Paper presented to the 2004 Crossroads in Cultural Studies, 5th International Conference of the Association for Cultural Studies, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

Park, J.  (2004, September).  Constructing the Religious Self through Mediated Meanings: Media Audiences’ Discursive Strategies for the Self and Identity. Paper presented to the 4th International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Louisville, Kentucky.

Park, J.  (2004, September).  Locating the Study of Media, Religion and Culture:  Within the Debate between Culturalism and Structuralism. Paper presented to the 4th International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Louisville, Kentucky.

Park, J.  (2004, September).  Internet, Medium for Religious Expression: Toward a Theorization of New Meaning Making Process. Paper presented to the 5th International Conference of Association of Internet Researchers, Sussex, England.

Park, J. and L.S. Clark. (2004, May).  ‘I’m Pretty Open’ vs. ‘I Don’t Cross Those Lines’: Questions of Audience ‘Openness’ in Religious Meaning Making.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans.

2003

Clark, L.S. (2003, November). Supernatural or Spiritual Beliefs? Questions of Sacred and Secular in a Mediated Context. Invited presentation for the Consultation on Secularization, Boston University.

Clark, L.S. (2003, November). Hell Houses, Horror, and the Dark Side of Evangelicalism: A Reception Analysis of the Unintended Consequences of Prosyletic Media Among Young People. Presented to the American Anthropological Association.

Clark, L.S. (2003, October). Supernatural or Spiritual Beliefs? Cultivating and Analyzing Qualitative Data from Interviews with Teens. Presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Clark, L.S. (2003, October). Spirituality Online: Rethinking Religious Authority in the Context of Teen Friendship Circles and New Media. Presented to the American Studies Association.


Clark, L.S. (2003, July). How Baby Boomers View the Media as a Cultural Resource for Parenting. Presented to the Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kansas City.

Clark, L.S. (2003, July). Respondent to panel, Religious Communities’ Use of the Media. Presented to the Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kansas City.

Clark, L.S. (2003, May). Teen Friendship Networks Online. Presented on a panel Clark organized titled, Ethnographic Studies of Teens and the New Media, International Communication Association, San Diego.

Clark, L.S. (2003, May). Supernatural Fiction and the Dark Side of Evangelicalism: An Analysis of Ethnographic Material on Popular Religion and Popular Culture. Presented on a panel Clark organized titled New Directions in Cultural Studies: Popular Culture and Popular Religion, International Communication Association, San Diego.

Clark, L.S., C. Demont-Heinrich, and S. Webber. (2003, May). Ethnographic Interviews on the Digital Divide. Presented to the International Communication Association, San Diego.

Clark, L.S. (2003, April). Hell Houses, Horror, and the Dark Side of Evangelicalism: A Reception Analysis of the Unintended Consequences of Prosyletic Media Among Young People. Presented to the Anthropology of Religion Conference.

Demont-Heinrich, C., Clark, L.S., and Webber, S. (2003, October). Computers and Success. Presented to the Association of Internet Researchers, October, 20.

Emerich, M. (2003, October). “Spiritual Land, Contested Narratives: Spiritual Interpretations of Cornwall’s Landscapes and Implications for Cornish Political Economy.” Celtic Representations, Boulder, CO.

Emerich, M. (2003, June). “Methodological Issues of Virtual Ethnography: The Case of the Celt.” Presented to the Celtic Image in MultiMedia conference, Plymouth England.

Emerich, M. (2003, May). “The Emergence of Celtic Paganism into the Public Sphere.” Presented to the ASANAS conference, Milton Keynes, England.

Emerich, M. (2003, May). “Capitalizing on Nature or Spiritualizing Capitalism? The Case of the LOHAS Journal and Natural Business Communications.” Presented to the ASANAS conference, Milton Keynes, England.

Emerich, M. (2003, April). “Real World in Virtual Time: The Role of the Land in Conceptualizations of ‘Celticity’ by Contemporary Celtic Pagans on the Internet.” American Academy of Religion Regional Conference.

Hoover, S. (2003, October) “Religious Seeking/Religious Finding: The New Age in The Digital World,” paper presented to the conference the Association of Internet Researchers, Toronto.

Hoover, S. and Park, J. (2003, May). “Field Notes on the History and Future of Religion in Media Scholarship” Co-authored with Stewart Hoover, Presented to the International Communication Association 53rd Annual Conference, San Diego, California.

Hoover, S (2003, May). “Plausible Narratives of the Self,” Presented to the International Communication Association 53rd Annual Conference, San Diego, California.

Park, J. (2003, August). “Presentation of Media Practice: Dramaturgical Analysis of Religious Accounts of Media.” Paper presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Kansas City, Missouri.

Park, J. (2003, May). “‘Creating My Own Cultural Bubble’: Cultural Consumption of Japanese Spirituality in Anime” Paper presented to the International Communication Association 53rd Annual Conference, San Diego, California.

Russo, A.M. and L.S. Clark. (2003, April). New Media in Single Parent Households. Presented to the European Media Technology and Everyday Life Conference, London.

Webber, S. A. (October, 2003). Minimal use, maximum hope: The current uses of computers and the Internet in elementary schools. Paper presented at the annual conference of the AOIR (Association of Internet Researchers), Toronto, Canada.

Webber, S., Clark, L.S., and Demont-Heinrich, C. (2003, October). Buying in and Left Behind. Presented to the Association of Internet Researchers.


2002

Alters, D. (2002, November). “They Hid Jesus in the Bulrushes: Children’s Understandings of Religion in Popular Culture.” Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City, UT.

Clark, L.S. (2002, July). Respondent, Technology and popular culture. Popular Communication division of the International Communication Association.

Clark, L.S. (2002, May). ’I’d rather do more than Preparation H commercials’: Encountering religion in Hollywood. Presentation to the International Study Commission on Media, Religion, and Culture, Vancouver, BC.

Demont-Heinrich, C. (2002, July). "When the Panopticon Goes Online: Charting the Geography of Power and Surveillance on the Internet" at IAMCR (International Association of Mass Communication Researchers).

Emerich, M. (2002, October). “Constructing ‘Celticity’: How Neo-Pagans Define Celtic Spirituality through Popular Discourse on the Internet.” Presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City, UT.

Emerich, M. (2002, June). “Ethnographic Methods in the New Media @ Home project.” Presented to the Institute of Cornish Studies, Cornwall, England. Presentation was part of a grant from the University of Colorado’s British Cultural Studies oral history project.

Hoover, Stewart M. and Anna Maria Russo (2002, November). “Remembering 9/11: media, religion and meaning-making in commemorative ritual.” Paper presented at the
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.

Hoover, Stewart M. and Anna Maria Russo (2002, November). “Ritual, Representation, and Media in Public Commemoration.” Paper accepted to the American Academy of
Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Hoover, S. (2002, October) “Religion and Meaning in the Digital Age: Field Research on Internet/Web Religion,” paper presented to the meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, Maastricht, Netherlands

Hoover, Stewart M. and Anna Maria Russo (2002, July). “Modes of Engagement in
Research on Media Meaning-Making.” Paper presented at the 23rd Conference and
General Assembly IAMCR/AIECS/AIERI, International Association for Media and
Communication Research, Barcelona, Spain.

Hoover, Stewart M. and Anna Maria Russo (2002, July). “Remembering the World Trade Center: The Visual Mediation of Grief.” Paper presented at the 23rd Conference
and General Assembly IAMCR/AIECS/AIERI, International Association for Media and
Communication Research, Barcelona, Spain.

Park, J. (2002, July). “Constructing a Religion: Issues of the Study of Religion on the Internet,” Paper presented to the 52nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Seoul, Korea.

Park, J. (2002, July). “Integrating Religiosity and Ethnic Identity: Everyday Media Practice of An Immigrant Community in the U.S.” Paper presented to the International Communication Association 52nd Annual Conference, Seoul, Korea.

Russo, Anna Maria (2002, July). “Single parenthood in a mediated culture: narratives
concerning media, meaning-making and identity-formation. Paper presented at
the 23rd Conference and General Assembly IAMCR/AIECS/AIERI, International
Association for Media and Communication Research, Barcelona, Spain.

Webber, S. A. (November, 2002). “Ethnographic Perspectives on the Digital Divide.” Invited participant on panel at the NCA (National Communication Association) Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.

Webber, S. A. (November, 2002). “A Closer look: Internet and computer use in elementary schools.” Paper presented at the NCA (National Communication Association) Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.

Webber, S. A. (May, 2002). “After-school programs and the network society.” Paper presented at the NCA (National Communication Association) 2002 Summer Conference, Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change, Seattle, WA.

Webber, S. A. and Clark, L. S (May, 2002). “The Network Society, Social Capital and Ethnography.” Pattern presented at the NCA (National Communication Association) 2002 Summer Conference, Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change, Seattle, WA.

Webber, S. and L.S. Clark. (2002, May). Dreams and Means: Ethnographic analysis of disadvantaged young people and the digital dividePresented to the Shaping the Network Society conference, Seattle, WA.

2001

Clark, L.S. (2001, November).“The history of media studies in media, religion, and culture scholarship.” Paper presented to the pre-conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, American Academy of Religion conference, Denver.

Clark, L.S. (2001, November). Respondent, Youth, Religion, and Popular Culture session, American Academy of Religion conference, Denver,.

Clark, L.S. (2001, October).“Access to new media technologies: A justice issue?” (Clark was Organizer and Respondent to the panel, as well) Paper presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion/Religious Research Association conference, Columbus, OH.

Clark, L.S. (2001, October). Respondent, Longitudinal Research on Religion among Young People. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion/Religious Research Association conference, Columbus, OH.

Clark, L.S. (2001, October). “Social good and citizenship at a community computer center for youth: A case study.” Paper presented to the second annual Association of Internet Researchers conference, Minneapolis, MN.

Clark, L.S. (2001, August).“Baby boomers and their millennial kids.” Paper presented to the Association for the Sociology of Religion conference, American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA.

Clark, L.S. (2001, May). “Challenges of social good in the world of ‘Grand Theft Auto’ and ‘Barbie’: A case study of a community computer center for youth.” Paper presented to the International Communication Association as part of a Theme Session on communication research and policy matters (Clark organized the panel).

Clark, L.S. (2001, May). “Creating family media policies: A case study comparison of how two families regulate media use for their children, and how their children interpret these policies.” Paper presented to the International Communication Association, Popular Communication Division.

Clark, L.S. (2001, March).“Reconsidering the mythic in relation to religious, anthropological and media perspectives: Legends of the supernatural.” Presented to the regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature.

Hoover, S.H. (2001, November). Religion as Television and Television as Religion. Invited panelist, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO.

Hoover, S.H. (2001, October). Religious Meaning Making in Media Households: Fieldwork on the Social-Scientific Study of Religion and the Media. Presented to the Annual Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Columbus, OH.

Hoover, S.H. (2001, June). Media Culture and the New Religious History. Invited presentation to the Conference on the New Religious History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Webber, S.A. (2001, October). Moderator on panel: Digital Divide: U.S. Case Studies. Interconnections 2.0: The Second International Conference of the Association of Internet
Researchers, Minneapolis, MN.

Webber, S.A. (2001, August). Participant on panel: Soaring or Crashing? How We’re Coping in the Brave New World of Digital Journalism Education. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Mass Communication and Society Division, Washington, D.C.

Webber, S.A. (2002, May). After-School Programs and the Network Society. Presented at the National Communication Association Summer Conference: Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change, Seattle, WA.

Webber, S.A. (2001, May). Overlapping Goals: Computer Technology in Schools.” Presented at the International Communication Conference, Washington, D.C.

Webber, S. and L.S. Clark. (2001, November).“When McDonald’s is run by robots, I’ll still have a job: Reflections on ethnographic research into the Digital Divide.” ICA/IAMCR Conference on the Digital Divide, Austin, TX.

2000

Clark, L.S. (2000, November).“Touched by a (Vampire Named) Angel: Teen girls, beliefs in the supernatural, and delegitimated popular culture.” Presentation to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Clark, L.S. (2000, May). “Online bonds and offline boundaries: Methodological issues for teens and discussions of difference.” Presentation to the Cyberculture in/and Diversity Conference, University of Maryland.

Clark, L.S. (2000, May). Respondent, Popular Culture and Film. Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association, Acapulco, Mexico.

Clark, L.S. (2000, March).“Touched by a (Vampire named) Angel: Explicit religion in teen media.” Paper presented to the international Religious Communications Congress 2000 meeting.

1999

Clark, L.S. (1999, November). “Is popular culture replacing religion for today’s teens?” Presentation for the Advisory Board of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado.

Clark, L.S. (1999, November). “Media, religion, and family identity: The symbolism, media, and the lifecourse project.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Boston.

Hoover, S.H. and L.S. Clark. (1999, August). “Media and Meaning at the Millennium,” second author with Stewart Hoover, presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Sociologists of Religion, division of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.

Clark, L.S. (1999, July). “If you stay away from Nintendo, you’ll read the Qur’an more: Media, the family, and Muslim identity,” presented at the International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Clark, L.S. (1999, July). Chair, panel on Media and Adolescents, the International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Clark, L.S. (1999). “Teens and the supernatural,” presented to the meeting of the International Study Commission on Media, Religion, and Culture, Edinburgh.

Clark, L.S. (1999, May). “Ideology, religion and class in a mediated environment: A critical reception study of ‘Touched by an Angel,’” designated a Top Four paper for the Popular Communication division of the International Communication Association and presented at that group’s annual meeting, San Francisco.

Clark, L.S. (1999, May). “Learning from the field: The journey from post-positivism to constructivisim,” presented at the annual meeting of the Popular Communication division of the International Communication Association.

Clark, L.S. (1999, February).“The funky side of the supernatural: Bourdieu’s distinctions in the context of a U.S. reception study,” colloquy presented to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Clark, L.S. (1999, January). “The funky side of the supernatural: Angels, aliens, and ‘legitimate’ culture,” presented to the meeting of the International Study Commission on Media, Religion, and Culture, Boulder, January.

1998

Clark, L.S. “Baby boomers and their Millennial kids: Constructing religious identity in a mediated environment,” presented to the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Montreal, November, 1998.

Clark, L.S. “Dating on the Internet: Teens and the Rise of the ‘Pure’ Relationship,” presented to the Feminist Scholarship Division at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Jerusalem, July, 1998.

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Public Presentations, Talks, Colloquia

Clark, L.S. (2006, February). Roundtable on New Media. Colloquy for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado.

Clark, L.S. (2006, February). The Constant Contact Generation: Historically Situating the New Media Practices of U.S. Teens. School of Communication, University of Denver.

Clark, L.S. (2006, March). Reflections on Media, Religion, and Gender in Iran. Colloquy for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado.

Clark, L.S.  (2005, March).  Media, Home, and Family.  Keynote presentation for the Discover and Connect event, Central Pennsylvania.  Sponsored by the Carlisle Presbytery.

Clark, L.S.  (2005, March). Spiritual Leadership in The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, The X-Men, and More.  Workshop presentation for the Discover and Connect event, Central Pennsylvania.  Sponsored by the Carlisle Presbytery.

Clark, L.S.   (2005, March).  Using Popular Culture to Talk about Faith Across Generations.  Presentation for Second Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, PA.

Clark, L.S.  (2005, March).  Pop Culture Meets Pop Religion: Fashion Bibles, Hindi Nightclubs, and Muslim Pop.  Keynote presentation to the Graduate Student Symposium, Indiana University, hosted by Religious Studies students.

Clark, L.S. (2005, January). Spiritual Leadership in The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, The X-Men, and More. Illiff Week of Lectures, Denver, CO.

Clark, L.S. (2003, October). Keynote speaker, From Angels to Aliens Event, Presbyterian Media Mission’s Day at the Movies, Pittsburgh, PA.

Clark, L.S. (2003, October). Book reading, From Angels to liens, with Kirby Moss. Sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado.

Clark, L.S. (2003, November). Co-organizer (with Brent Plate of Texas Christian University), “Representations of Islam and Muslims in the Media,” Pre-conference seminar, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta.

Clark, L.S. (2003, July). Invited guest speaker, From Angels to Aliens, Parish Resource Center, Dayton, OH.

Clark, L.S. (2003, May). Keynote speaker, From Angels to Aliens, PMM Luncheon, General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Clark, L.S. (2003, June). Invited seminar leader, From Angels to Aliens, Salon Series, Kindred/Keziah, Boulder, CO.

Clark, L.S. (2003, May). Invited guest speaker, From Angels to Aliens, Frazier Meadows, Boulder, CO.

Clark, L.S. (1998, June).Keynote speaker, “Building bridges between theology and media studies.” Presented to the meeting of the Catholic Theological Society in America, Ottawa, Canada, June.

Hoover, S.M. (2006, March). Media and Religion in Iran. Colloquy to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado.

Hoover, S. M.(2005, February) “Covering Religion in Media,” Address to the Conference of the Colorado Press Association, Denver, OH.

Hoover, S. M. (2005, July) “Religion in the Media Age,” address to the Messenger Dinner, Church of the Brethren Annual Conference, Peoria, IL.

Hoover, S.M. (2005, November) “Reflections on Media and Religion East and West,” remarks to the graduate symposium, Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

Hoover, S. M. (2005, December) “Religion in the Media,” public address, the Gregorian University, Rome.

Hoover, S.H. (November, 2002). Co-organizer (with Jeffrey Mahan of Iliff Seminary), Pre-conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Denver.

Hoover, S.H. (2001, November). Co-organizer (with Jeffrey Mahan of Iliff Seminary), Pre-conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Denver.

Hoover, S.H. (2001, July). Co-organizer (with David Morgan of Valparaiso University), Asian consultation on Religion and the Media, Bankok, Thailand.

Hoover, S.H. (2001, April). Public lecture, Department of Communication and Information Studies, University of Sterling, Scotland.

Hoover, S.H. (1999, February). Rethinking Form and Content: Religion on Television or Television Religion?

Hoover, S.H. (1996, April). The George Gerbner Lecture: The Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania.

Hoover, S.H. Media and Theology Project Public Lectures: Religion in a Media Age. (The University of Edingburgh: The School of New Divinity, New College).

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Non-Academic Publications

Clark, L.S. (2006, May). How to get an article published. Under Resources for Research, Site for Media, Culture and Meaning.

Clark, L.S. (2006, April). The 'World Cup' of Popular Communication. Popular Communication Newsletter: 2.

Clark, L.S. (2003, October 18). Your kid or mine? (Review of the film Thirteen). The Christian Century : 8-9.

Clark, L.S. (2002, May). Entertainment at what price? (on Survivor V’s plans to film in the Phi Phi Islands despite environmental protests). Popular Communication Newsletter: 1.

Clark, L.S. (2001, October). Lessons learned (reflections on incorporating Sept. 11 concerns into the classroom). Popular Commnication Newsletter: 1.

Clark, L.S. (1999, December). Popular culture: Replacing religion among today’s teens? TransMission.

Clark, L.S. (1999, Summer). Columbine: A message from the trenchcoats. Ministry.

Clark, L.S. (1998, Spring). Exploring the role of media in religious identity-construction among teens: A review of dissertation research and findings. Connections : 1.

Clark, L.S. (1996, Spring). Martin Marty keynotes conference. Bylines: 1.

Bedell, K. and Clark, L. S. (1993, November). Theological schools and communication education: The survey results. Connections 1(2):1.

Dozeman, T. and Clark, L.S. (1992). Bulrush and burning bush: How to discern and respond to God’s call. (Videotape and print resource). Dayton, OH: Whaleprints.

Hoover, S. Religion in the Media Age. Denver Post, Sunday, November 16, 2003

Hoover, S.H. (1981). The Electronic Giant. Chicago: Brethren Press.

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