The 400th anniversary of the Reformation 100 years ago coincided with World War I when German troops wore belt buckles with the inscription “God with us” and fought against other nations who considered themselves Christians too. The celebrations had a belligerent and nationalistic undertone. What...
Le protestantisme est né avec l’imprimerie, va-t-il mourir avec internet?
...Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behaviour with regard to technology use. ...
In the last US elections, social media had the freedom to publish “fake news” like Pope Francis’ support for Presidential candidate Donald Trump, Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s illness and the murder of an FBI agent on the order of the Clintons.1 President-elect Donald Trump himself declared,...
What do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit, who worked for almost his entire life on Saint Thomas Aquinas, have in common? The simple answer would be: the computer. Things however are a bit more...
Fabricated or inaccurate news stories are not new; they are the inevitable price we pay to be able to enjoy our precious right to free expression. Education, not regulation, is the path forward.
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