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Death and the Digital Spell

August 1, 2019June 6, 2020 ~ Austin Gravley ~ Leave a comment

Sunday, June 9th, 2019 was a day of joy that instantly gave way to deep grief. In the morning, I went to church. In the afternoon, I watched the excellent Xbox E3 conference and was elated at all of the wonderful titles and features in the pipe for the Xbox One. In the evening, I … Continue reading Death and the Digital Spell

Guest Post: Watch Yourself

July 21, 2019June 6, 2020 ~ Austin Gravley ~ 1 Comment

We live in the age of the selfie. We now have the tools to take photos of ourselves looking our best in an attempt to exalt ourselves in the eyes of our friends and family. How do we exalt Christ when it is so easy to exalt ourselves?

…Is To Break The Spell (Episode Manuscript)

July 18, 2019June 6, 2020 ~ Austin Gravley ~ Leave a comment

We were made for the life beyond the screen.

Conclusions, Part Two (Episode Manuscript)

July 18, 2019June 6, 2020 ~ Austin Gravley ~ Leave a comment

Living in a distracted, digital age has consequences.

Conclusions, Part One (Episode Manuscript)

July 11, 2019June 6, 2020 ~ Austin Gravley ~ Leave a comment

It's time to come to some conclusions.

Walking By Faith And Sight (Episode Manuscript)

July 11, 2019June 6, 2020 ~ Austin Gravley ~ Leave a comment

"If the delivery is not the same, then the message, quite likely, is not the same." - Neil Postman

In The Beginning Were Words (Episode Manuscript)

July 11, 2019June 6, 2020 ~ Austin Gravley ~ Leave a comment

To understand the present, we must begin in the past.

To Ask The Question… (Episode Manuscript)

July 11, 2019June 6, 2020 ~ Austin Gravley ~ Leave a comment

Our technology has changed the world – but maybe not in ways we wanted it to.

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Finished Anna Karenina this morning. Truly a perfect book in every sense of the word. It is unlike anything I have ever read and unlike anything I ever expect to read again. I have never seen a book with such short chapters and plain language speak so deeply to betrayal, faith, family, marriage, and numerous other subjects. Such a beautiful, powerful, painful, and extraordinarily human - and modern! - story.
and now for something completely different - my band’s debut album released today. 30 minutes of anthemic, genre-bending prog rock/metal goodness. available wherever you get your music. follow @abtenauerband on all the socials too.
Are there any practical ways we can reduce polarization on social media from the bottom-up?

Bail proposes three strategies. The first strategy, “Seeing the Prism”, is straightforward: we need to teach people to see how social media bends and distorts our identities. The second strategy, “Seeing Yourself Through the Prism”, is more complicated: we need to learn how to see how social media distorts us and how we portray ourselves online is often not the same as how people interpret us online. The third strategy, “Breaking the Prism”, builds on the first two strategies to suggest how we can begin taking baby steps to meaningfully reach across the aisle and close the perception gap through finding common ground.
What is the “perception gap”? Simply put, the perception gap is the chasm created by false polarization; it’s the distance between how extreme people perceive others to be compared to where people actually are. The average Republican believes the average Democrat is more extreme than there are actual liberal extremists, and vice-versa for Democrats. This chasm between perception (the sense that the average Democrat or Republican is extreme) versus reality (that the number of both conservative and liberal extremists are a minority of the population) is the essence of the perception gap.

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