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Everyday, Ordinary

Women: Online

Dr Bex Lewis, Director, Digital Fingerprint

Activate Your Life, April 2015 (http://www.activateyourlife.org.uk/) #ayl415

Introducing

Dr Bex LewisResearch Fellow in Social Media

& Online LearningCODEC, St John’s College, Durham

Director, Digital FingerprintT: @drbexl

F: /drbexlW: drbexl.co.uk

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ans+12:1&version=MSG

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Be Yourself,

Everyone Else

is TakenOscar Wilde

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@drbexl

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God is a communicating God: “In the beginning was the word, and the

word was God…”.

God is extravagant in communication –he is not a silent God who has to be tempted into communicating with

people.

Rev Prof David Wilkinson

Image Credit: Durham University

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I share, therefore I am

Sherry Turkle, psychologist and MIT professor of Social Studies of

Science and Technology.

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+If an alien visited…

… and all they had to see was

your Facebook page … or other

‘public’ profile …

What would their perception of

your life be?

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+https://youtu.be/zRlpIkH3b5I

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+The Power of Community

http://www.beyondchocolate.co.uk/testimonials/

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“No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.” C.S. Lewis

H/T @jaybutcher

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A good [wo]man brings good things out of the good stored up in his/her heart, and an evil [wo]man brings evil things out of

the evil stored up in his/her heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Luke 6:45 (New International Version)

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Francis A. Schaeffer, Art

and the Bible, Ch. 1

“If Christianity is really true,

then it involves the whole

[wo]man, including his/[her]

intellect and creativeness.

Christianity is not just

“dogmatically” true or

“doctrinally” true. Rather, it is

true to what is there, true in

the whole area of the whole

[wo]man in all of life.”

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I’m a passionate believer that we need to be ‘incarnational’ in the digital

spaces, whether those are specifically ‘Christian’ spaces or not, but that we

need to understand how to be ‘resident’ in those spaces, rather than merely ‘visiting’ to do a ‘bit of reaching

out’.

Bex Lewis, http://www.threadsuk.com/redeeming-culture-in-a-digital-age, May 2014

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+24/7 Values?

What do you stand FOR?

Authentic – be a consistent ‘you’

Transparent – be honest, where’s the source?

Self-aware – note your ‘tone of voice’

Integrity – own your own content

Self-control – be aware of consequences

Patience – hold the trigger finger before send

Non-manipulative – ‘love Jesus’ = send this! No!

Kindness – encourage others

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Relax, enjoy your friends. Enjoy their company along with the company of Jesus. Point him out, freely, without fear or intimidation. You’re not responsible to sell him to them. You’re simply saying what you’ve seen. You're not the judge. You’re the witness.

Carl Medearis, quoted Spring Harvest, 2013

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Who sees this?

1. God

2. Parents

3. ‘Kids’

4. Newspaper

5. Enemy

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+With digital technology we

need to cultivate an

attitude of respect, rather

than of risk-avoidance.

The digital is a part of our

everyday lives, and it’s not

going to go away. There

are huge opportunities

available for those who

have learnt how to be

critical, constructive,

and confident

inhabitants of the digital

environment.

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http://www.upworthy.com/hear-the-powerful-way-the-worlds-ugliest-woman-beat-her-bullies

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+BBC: Be Smart

“We’re doing this because all the research tells us that

children and young people respond best to their

peers. Whether they’re under pressure to take part in

a dangerous prank, or to victimise someone, or

whether they’re an online bully themselves, stories

told by other young people are most likely to resonate

and to help them cope, or change their behaviour.”

Andrew Tomlinson, Executive Producer, Media Literacy, BBC Learning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/f1f50247-4902-

4998-bf58-3e2d3c007587

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+Progressive responsibility

Do it for them

Do it with them

Watch while they do it

Let them do it for themselves.

Will Taylor

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+Saint Teresa of Avila (adapted by

Meredith Gould, 2010)

Christ has no online presence but yours,

No blog, no Facebook page but yours,

Yours are the tweets through which love touches this

world,

Yours are the posts through which the Gospel is

shared,

Yours are the updates through which hope is

revealed.

Christ has no online presence but yours,

No blog, no Facebook page but yours.

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