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Digital Event

[EVENT] #DigitalLabs Conference by @ChurchOfEngland

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The last couple of days have really made my brain work… but I’ve really enjoyed the mix of sessions (strategic and practical), and been able to listen to a number of them whilst doing other bits and bobs, whilst capturing some of them for Twitter! It’s encouraging to se how much the Church of England digital work has moved forward over the last few years (I used to run training sessions at Church House, London, especially on ‘Social Media for the Scared’, and always felt more was needed).

I found the Whova app really straightforward to use (I’ve only used one other online conference platform – Hopin)… although of course there will have been work put into thinking how to use this well. I used a mix of the web platform and the mobile platform – and aside from having to manually connect to the audio for each session – it was easy to find each session in the agenda, and connect to the associated Zoom. I can look back at each session and see the Q&A and chats that happened down the side, though I never quite made it to the community chats (which looked very busy). Delegates could contact each other, upload photos, comment/enage (and there was a competition with scores for those who engaged the most) – and the slides were available at the end of the event – plus a few other bits of functionality.

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Speaker

[SPEAKER] Online Church as Real Community with @premierdigi

I have just finished a webinar session within Premier Digital’s webinar series

and I love to share slides, so that people can listen and not scribble (if they wish):

Premier Digital: Online Church as Real Community from Bex Lewis

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Digital

[MEDIA] How can social media affect an election? #GE2019 for @ManMetUni

I’ve been talking about social media and elections again … who knew I’d have to do this so frequently? An extract:

Social media is more embedded in people’s lives than ever before – most people don’t overthink their use of digital platforms.

The four biggest platforms currently in use (albeit differently by different demographics) are Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Instagram. Three of those are owned by Facebook and, as Hilary Clinton said recently, “When Facebook is the principal news source for more than half of the American people, and the only source of news that most of them pay any attention to, and if it announces that it has no responsibility for the airing of false ads … how are you supposed to get accurate information about anything, let alone candidates running for office?”

For younger users, Instagram has grown in popularity, although Snapchat still has its place (and has recently been used by the UK government). Tik-Tok (formerly music.ly) is also widely used by teenagers and recently banned political adverts.

Social media offers portability, availability, searchability, interactivity, many-to-many messaging and increasing personalisation. It offers a space for ‘sharing, connecting and engaging, with an expectation that one’s actions will be observed’, although there’s less recognition that users will be observed by big data algorithms as much as other people.

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Media & Press Media - Audio

[MEDIA] Talking about #FactCheckUK with @UCBNewsTeam for #GE2019

Earlier today I had a conversation with the news team for UCB radio, and manage to capture this snippet used this evening (the rest will follow later, as we talked more generally about social media/the election):

I’m keeping tabs on some interesting links on Wakelet.

Interestingly the parody account for Boris Johnson was right on top of it, demonstrating just how quickly the internet can respond:

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Cancer Speaker

[SPEAKER] Digital Theology: The Big C #PremDac19

So, the Premier Digital Conference (#PremDac19) is this weekend … despite all sorts of concerns about whether I would have recovered from my operation in time… I haven’t even had it yet! So, here’s my speaker bio:


and a small extract from the piece:

What can people expect from your session?

A lot more humour than might be expected from a session about incurable cancer! Joanne and I will have a conversation, drawing upon her book Finding God in a Culture of Fear, and professional and personal insights from my research and ‘my cancer experience’. The session will be illustrated with screenshots from online material that the church could learn from, as The Body of Christ has cancer, and those of us living with this reality (or any other chronic disease) have a story to tell.