This article deals with two contradicting themes. As digital telecommunication advances, it becomes difficult to challenge and shake traditionally significant values and foundations. In this essay, problems of contemporary digital culture will be analyzed. The position Christian education must take ...
This article deals with two contradicting themes. As digital telecommunication advances, it becomes difficult to challenge and shake traditionally significant values and foundations. In this essay, problems of contemporary digital culture will be analyzed. The position Christian education must take and the tasks needed to resolve them will be sought. After reviewing related literature, two major definitions for digital culture stood out. In a wider sense, digital culture is defined as a unique way of life for a group, living in a certain historical time. In a narrower sense, it refers to a colorful, artistic response emerging from the style and application of diverse digital technological media. Five positive functions and prospects of digital culture are identified. They are an easy accessibility to knowledge and information, ubiquity, upgraded quality of life, convenient e-shopping, and virtuality for attesting human imagination and creativity. The malicious application of digital culture creates at least six dysfunctions which are seriously harmful to humanity. These negative effects are shown in the digital divide, invasion of privacy, sexual lewdness on the Internet including cyber pornography, internet addiction, deprivation of morals and etiquette, and digital syndrome. Digital culture itself has nothing to do with societal evil; however, when used inappropriately, It could dehumanize humanity. Humanization in this essay refers to equipping or maintaining the quality or state of being human, which seeks for the dignity of life and the benefit of civilization that would be equally given to every human being Three positions are reviewed in relating Christianity to Digital Culture: God against Culture, God within Culture, and God above Culture. Paul Tillich's Theology of Culture and H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture are used as the major theoretical references. It is suggested that Christianity needs the wisdom to discern the true motivation and intention of the user of the digital culture. As Tillich states, it is not a matter of cultural form, but of content and the user's motivation. The discernment to decide if the digital culture is good or evil is based on the user's purpose and motivation. Three tasks are proposed for Christian educators seeking humanization within the digital culture: Biblical teaching, moral exhortations, and spiritual discernment. Three points are made concerning Biblical teaching on humanization. First, is to teach that humanization is the divine process toward humanity. Second, is to reassure that God is the creator of all living creatures. Third, is to point out that God opts for the poor who are in a dehumanizing situation. In moral exhortation, three positions are recommended. First, modern Christianity seems to take a neutral position toward contemporary digital culture. Second, the extremely exclusive Christian perspective against digital culture needs to be put in balance. Third, there must be a clear moral exhortation that the creator of all human culture is God, and when it comes to corruption, as with the cities of Sodom and Gomoltah, the digital culture will not be exempted from God's judgment. Regarding spiritual discernment, three criteria tips are suggested for preventing dehumanization. First, to discern if the digital media or internet site is harmfully based on malicious content or motivation or is it based on the cultural form itself. Second, to use discerning criteria to determine whether the internet site or digital content includes potential for addiction, gambling, lewdness, an invasion of privacy, exaggerated advertising, or encouraging suicidal activity. Third, awareness of the time used for internet activity, recognizing that a limit of three hours is recommended for preventing cyber syndrome. Digital culture is now becoming ubiquitous and has already become part of our daily routine. What will come next with this technology is unpredictable. Although digital..
This article deals with two contradicting themes. As digital telecommunication advances, it becomes difficult to challenge and shake traditionally significant values and foundations. In this essay, problems of contemporary digital culture will be analyzed. The position Christian education must take and the tasks needed to resolve them will be sought. After reviewing related literature, two major definitions for digital culture stood out. In a wider sense, digital culture is defined as a unique way of life for a group, living in a certain historical time. In a narrower sense, it refers to a colorful, artistic response emerging from the style and application of diverse digital technological media. Five positive functions and prospects of digital culture are identified. They are an easy accessibility to knowledge and information, ubiquity, upgraded quality of life, convenient e-shopping, and virtuality for attesting human imagination and creativity. The malicious application of digital culture creates at least six dysfunctions which are seriously harmful to humanity. These negative effects are shown in the digital divide, invasion of privacy, sexual lewdness on the Internet including cyber pornography, internet addiction, deprivation of morals and etiquette, and digital syndrome. Digital culture itself has nothing to do with societal evil; however, when used inappropriately, It could dehumanize humanity. Humanization in this essay refers to equipping or maintaining the quality or state of being human, which seeks for the dignity of life and the benefit of civilization that would be equally given to every human being Three positions are reviewed in relating Christianity to Digital Culture: God against Culture, God within Culture, and God above Culture. Paul Tillich's Theology of Culture and H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture are used as the major theoretical references. It is suggested that Christianity needs the wisdom to discern the true motivation and intention of the user of the digital culture. As Tillich states, it is not a matter of cultural form, but of content and the user's motivation. The discernment to decide if the digital culture is good or evil is based on the user's purpose and motivation. Three tasks are proposed for Christian educators seeking humanization within the digital culture: Biblical teaching, moral exhortations, and spiritual discernment. Three points are made concerning Biblical teaching on humanization. First, is to teach that humanization is the divine process toward humanity. Second, is to reassure that God is the creator of all living creatures. Third, is to point out that God opts for the poor who are in a dehumanizing situation. In moral exhortation, three positions are recommended. First, modern Christianity seems to take a neutral position toward contemporary digital culture. Second, the extremely exclusive Christian perspective against digital culture needs to be put in balance. Third, there must be a clear moral exhortation that the creator of all human culture is God, and when it comes to corruption, as with the cities of Sodom and Gomoltah, the digital culture will not be exempted from God's judgment. Regarding spiritual discernment, three criteria tips are suggested for preventing dehumanization. First, to discern if the digital media or internet site is harmfully based on malicious content or motivation or is it based on the cultural form itself. Second, to use discerning criteria to determine whether the internet site or digital content includes potential for addiction, gambling, lewdness, an invasion of privacy, exaggerated advertising, or encouraging suicidal activity. Third, awareness of the time used for internet activity, recognizing that a limit of three hours is recommended for preventing cyber syndrome. Digital culture is now becoming ubiquitous and has already become part of our daily routine. What will come next with this technology is unpredictable. Although digital..
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