The aesthetic turn: exploring the religious dimensions of digital technology

The arena for developing digital technology has undergone an aesthetic turn, broadening the focus from a functionalist approach producing centralized systems in the 1970s and 1980s to an increased awareness of the aesthetic aspects of the individual user’s interaction with technology in the 1990s an...

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Main Author: Åhman, Henrik (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2016]
In: Approaching religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 156-163
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Digital revolution / Aesthetics / Religion
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
Further subjects:B Aesthetics
B Mark C. Taylor
B Philosophy
B Human Computer Interaction
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