Symbolism, Meaning and the New Media @ Home

This project, funded by the Lilly Endowment, examind how media are used as a resource in family and individual meaning-making practices. It was co-directed by Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark, and lasted from 2001 to 2006. Hoover’s work focused on the ways in which religious “seeking” in the U.S. interacts with and is informed by the emergent media environment. He was also interested in how various forms of religious identity interacted in different ways with media and media culture. Clark focused on the role the media play in the negotiations and struggles over claims to interpersonal, cultural, and religious authority in intergenerational and family relationships. She pursued important lines of inquiry in youth and youth culture in relation to media, spirituality and media, including new media.