IST - 2163 1 (online)
Spring 2020
Instructor: Jeffrey Mahan
Contact: jmahan@iliff.edu
Religious leadership must be appropriate to the culture within which one leads. We live in cultures increasingly shaped by the digital. This course explores ways that understandings of church, membership, religious identity, are changing in digital culture, and examines how both online and face-to-face expressions of faith are adapting to that. It asks what sort of leaders will guide faith communities into effective life and service in a culture shaped by its digital experience.
Below you will find links to the required readings, assignments, and an outline of the course organized by week (Click the text to download, or the link to open the document within Canvas.
Potential Graduates, please note : You are final paper must be submitted no later than noon on May 25, so that I can confirm that you are passing and keep you on the graduation list. JM
| Date | Day | Details | |
| Mar 24, 2020 | Tue | Introductions | due by 05:59AM |
| Mar 25, 2020 | Wed | Net Safety - Google Yourself | due by 05:59AM |
| Mar 26, 2020 | Thu | Reading Discussion: Walsh, Trustworthy Leadership | due by 05:59AM |
| Mar 27, 2020 | Fri | Social Media | due by 05:59AM |
| Mar 27, 2020 | Fri | Identifying your additional reading | due by 05:59AM |
| Mar 28, 2020 | Sat | Return to the week's discussion | due by 05:59AM |
| Mar 31, 2020 | Tue | Reading Discussion: Mahan, Media, Religion and Culture, "Relating Media, Religion and Culture" | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 01, 2020 | Wed | Mahan remarks, "The Digital Metaphor" | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 02, 2020 | Thu | Reading Discussion: Campbell and Gardner, Networked Religion: Considering How Faith is Lived in Networked Society | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 04, 2020 | Sat | Return to the week's discussion | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 04, 2020 | Sat | Due: Locating ourselves in Social Media | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 07, 2020 | Tue | Reading Discussion: Mahan, Church as Network, Intro and Chapter One | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 08, 2020 | Wed | Mahan remarks, "church in digital culture" | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 09, 2020 | Thu | Reading Discussion, Mahan "Church in American Media Culture" | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 11, 2020 | Sat | Return to the week's discussion | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 14, 2020 | Tue | Reading and Discussion, Mahan, Chapter Three, Church as Network: Identity. | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Wed | Mahan remarks, "Identity Construction" | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 16, 2020 | Thu | Ippolito remarks, Social Media and Leadership | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 18, 2020 | Sat | Return to the week's discussions and extend the conversation. | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 21, 2020 | Tue | Reading Discussion, Mahan, Church as Network, Chapter Four, Communities and Networks. | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 22, 2020 | Wed | Mahan remarks, "Communities and Networks" | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Thu | Reading Discussion: Block, Leadership is Convening | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 25, 2020 | Sat | Return to the week's discussion | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Tue | Reading Discussion: Mahan, Chapter Five, Church as Network, Authority and Leadership | due by 05:59AM |
| Apr 30, 2020 | Thu | Reading Discussion: Cheong, "Authority" | due by 05:59AM |
| May 02, 2020 | Sat | Return to the week's discussion | due by 05:59AM |
| May 05, 2020 | Tue | Interview a Leader, Discussion | due by 05:59AM |
| May 09, 2020 | Sat | Interview a Leader, post reflection paper | due by 05:59AM |
| May 12, 2020 | Tue | Week Eight, preparation time | due by 05:59AM |
| May 19, 2020 | Tue | Click2Save Reboot, presentation and discussion | due by 05:59AM |
| May 20, 2020 | Wed | Social Media Gospel presentation and discussion | due by 05:59AM |
| May 22, 2020 | Fri | Social Media experiments discussion | due by 05:59AM |
| May 23, 2020 | Sat | Submit social media reflection paper | due by 05:59AM |
| May 23, 2020 | Sat | Return to the week's discussion | due by 05:59AM |
| May 30, 2020 | Sat | Final week discussion points and feedback | due by 05:59AM |