# overview
Heidi A Campbell is Professor of Communication and affiliate faculty in Religious Studies and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. She teaches undergrad and graduate course in digital media, religious studies and communication. She is also director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies, and a recognized as one of the founder of Digital Religion studies, a new subfield of study that explores how religious beliefs and practices are performed online and offline within digital culture.

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University of Edinburgh - (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

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University of Edinburgh - (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

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Spring Arbor University - (Spring Arbor, Michigan, United States)

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American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant

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Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award

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Digital religion: Understanding religious practice in new media worlds

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"In My Own Opinion": Negotiation of Rabbinical Authority Online in Responsa WithinKipa.co.il

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The Dissonance of "Civil" Religion in Religious-Political Memetic Discourse During the 2016 Presidential Elections

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Building Social Sites of Collaborative Research: A Case Study of the Network for New Media, Religion, and Digital Culture Studies

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Considering critical methods and theoretical lenses in digital religion studies

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INTRODUCTION: What Playing with Religion Offers Digital Game Studies

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Exploring Religious Community Online We are One in the Network

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Reflexiones sobre los desafos de las iglesias online

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The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online

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"Can You Hear the Army?'': Exploring Evangelical Discourse in Scottish Youth Prayer Meetings

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Mission to Serve Tech: Churches "Lock Down" Technology During The Global Pandemic

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The Network For New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies

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Religion and the Internet: A microcosm for studying Internet trends and implications

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Needed but Lacking: Impact of Pastors Technology Background During the Pandemic

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Language and the Boundaries of Research: Media Monitoring Technologies in International Media Research

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Surveying theoretical approaches within digital religion studies

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When Pastors put on the Tech Hat: How Churches Digitized during Covid-19

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The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online-ePub version

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The limits of language: Digital technologies and new methodologies for global media research

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Digital Ecclesiology: A Global Conversation

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The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online-mobile version

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Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Transferred, mediated or transformed: considering the design, features, and presentation of sacred text mobile applications

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The internet usage of religious organizations in Mainland China: Case analysis of the Buddhist Association of China

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Surveying digital religion in China: Characteristics of religion on the Internet in Mainland China

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How to use digital devices this Lent for holy reflection

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Report 1- Executive Summary of "When Pastors put on the Tech Hat: How Churches Digitized during Covid-19"

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Networked Theology (Engaging Culture) Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture

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Religion and the Internet in the Israeli Orthodox context

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Introduction: The rise of the study of digital religion

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Communicating mixed messages about religion through internet memes

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Cyber Behavior and Religious Practice on the Internet

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Making space for religion in Internet studies

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Rethinking the online-offline connection in the study of religion online INTRODUCTION

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Problematizing the Human-Technology Relationship through Techno-Spiritual Myths Presented in The Machine, Transcendence and Her

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What Hath God Wrought? Considering How Religious Communities Culture (or Kosher) the Cell Phone

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Framing the human-technology relationship: How Religious Digital Creatives engage posthuman narratives

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Embracing Pastoral Entrepreneurship during the Pandemic: Traits needed to be an Effective Digital Pastor

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When the Church Embraced a Posthuman Future: How Pastoral Negotiations with Technology During the Covid-19 Pandemic Resulted in an Implicit Acceptance of Posthumanism

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How the iPhone became divine: new media, religion and the intertextual circulation of meaning

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Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World

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Sanctifying the internet: Aish hatorah's use of the internet for digital outreach

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Studying Technology and Ecclesiology in Online Multi-Site Worship

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How to build community while worshipping online

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Introduction to the study of digital religion

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Who's Got the Power? Religious Authority and the Internet

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Overview Report of Key Findings From The Distanced Church

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Gaming Religionworlds: Why Religious Studies Should Pay Attention to Religion in Gaming

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Introduction Essay: Special Issue of RMDC on Public Scholarship, Media and Religion

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There's a religious app for that! A framework for studying religious mobile applications

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Accessing Changes in the Study of Religious Communities in Digital Religion Studies

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Assessing changes in the study of religious communities in digital religion studies

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Creating digital enclaves: Negotiation of the internet among bounded religious communities

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Strategic Management of Religious Websites: TheCase of Israel's Orthodox Communities

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"This is my church": Seeing the internet and club culture as spiritual spaces

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Considering the Religious-Social Shaping of Technolog

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The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

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Introduction: Studying jewish engagement with digital media and culture

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Research Summaries and Lessons on Doing Religion and Church Online

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Ordinary Theology as Narratives: An Empirical Study of Young People's Charismatic Worship in Scotland

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The Intersection of Religion and Mobile Technology

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What Should Post-Pandemic Religion Look Like?

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Approaches to digital methods in studies of digital religion

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Religious Responses to Social Distancing Revealed through Memes during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The Question of Christian Community Online: The Case of the Artist World Network

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Understanding the Relationship between Religion Online and Offline in a Networked Society

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The Digital Divide, Digital Reluctance and Its Impact on Pandemic Churches

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Worshiping as narrative and performance:  An empirical study of a charismatic worship event

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Report 2- Executive Summary of Mission to Serve Tech: Churches "Lock Down" Technology During the Global Pandemic

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Summarizing Heidi A Campbells Research on Religion and Church Online

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Contextualizing current digital religion research on emerging technologies

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Lent is here  remind me what its all about? 5 essential reads

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Digital Judaism: Jewish negotiations with digital media and culture

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CLLA International Travel & Research Grant-TAMU to attend & keynote at French Association of Social Sciences of Religion Conference at University of Paris

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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CLLA International Travel & Research Grant-TAMU to attend & give plenary at International Society of Media, Religion & Culture Conference at University of Kent-UK

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Seminar Grant, Religious (In)Tolerance and (In)Civility in Digital Media & Culture

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Glasscock Center for Humanities Research-TAMU for interdisciplinary "Media & Religion" seminar

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Texas A&M University; Communication; 4234 TAMU

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Memes used to tweak believers', politicians' views

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How to build community while worshipping online

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Our father, who art in cyberspace - Churches turn to the internet to reach their flocks

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Altenhofen, Brian Joseph (2016-05). 'Sharing' the Catholic Faith: How Priests Establish/Maintain Religious Authority on Facebook. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Tsuria, Ruth (2017-07). New Media in the Jewish Bedroom: Exploring Religious Jewish Online Discourse Concerning Gender and Sexuality. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Calderon, Patricia A. (2010-01). THE MEDIA'S PLACE IN RELIGIOUS INDIVIDUALISM: A CASE STUDY OF  LAKEWOOD CHURCH. Master's Thesis.

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Bellar, Wendi R (2017-07). iPray: Understanding the Relationship Between Design and Use in Catholic and Islamic Mobile Prayer Applications. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture