The 7 senses of the art of religion news in the digital age. Part 4

The 7 senses of the art of religion news in the digital age. Part 3

Because digital religion reporting can pioneer the capturing of the full sensory spectrum of the practices of religion, it can more easily put the soul, the believing dimension, back into the news.

Seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling, believing and remembering

Industrial age news media was learning to compete in the digital age while the digital native news media were learning that being native to the digital world didn’t mean that you couldn’t be wounded, killed, and eaten.

How will the big media goliaths of the industrial age survive? How will their redesign affect the design of religion news? The current answers to this question can be summed up as going: big; social; global; local; and lean.

The independent online religion news magazine, A Journey through NYC religions, was launched in 2010.

Listicles, memes, and photo lists fueled new startups’ ascent to the most viewed entertainment and news providers.

The 21st Century brought the rise of websites gushing with digital creations connected by fast, big rivers of data made possible by broadband networks, faster computers and more storage space.

The invention of the browser was like a spectacular magic trick of invoking new sights at the click of a finger.

Complexity and contradiction in the art of religion news

The era of plain text

News media innovations arose with the vast movement of people and ideas into late 19th Century New York City.

More than anything else, New York City contains religious mysteries.

The reign of “objective news” was gradually supplanted by the reign of screaming headlines and sob-provoking stories.