David Lyon is Professor and head of the Sociology department at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, as well as Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Regent College. He is author of The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society, Postmodernity and Living Stones: St. James' Church, Kingston, 1845-1995.
Christians in a Culture of Surveillance
Speaker(s): David Lyon
Date: Spring 2019
Length: 1h05mins
Product ID: RGDL4902I
Purchase Options:
MP3 Download - FREE |
Description
An evening lecture with Dr. David Lyon of Queen's University, author of The Culture of Surveillance.
The digital world of internet and social media use has become the context in which we all live our lives, both in Canada and internationally. Its surveillance dimensions are subtle, unavoidable and consequential. The everyday news is full of it--think Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, Google's Sidewalk Labs in Toronto, Huawei's 5G ambitions! We not only experience this from day-to-day through our phones, tablets and laptops but we also engage with it. How should Christian imaginaries and practices be shaped in the digital context where watching and being watched have become so culturally central? And how can we contribute to human flourishing in this environment?
David Lyon's research, writing, and teaching interests revolve around major social transformations in the modern world. Questions of the information society, globalization, secularization, surveillance, and debates over 'post-' and 'digital' modernity feature prominently in his work. Lyon was formerly an editor of Surveillance & Society and is Associate Editor of The Information Society. He also serves on the international editorial boards of several other journals.
See All Audio by David Lyon
Related Audio
Remembering Gordon Fee - "Vocation, Work & Ministry: In Pauline Perspective"
Speaker: Gordon Fee
Remembering Gordon Fee - "Exegesis & Spirituality: Completing the Circle and Living It Out"
Speaker: Gordon Fee
Don Lewis: In Memoriam (The Death of Death in the Death of Christ)
Speaker: Bruce Hindmarsh
Remembering Don Lewis - Do Not Be Discouraged (Psalm 37) (Chapel Talk Summer 2008)
Speaker: Don Lewis
Remembering Don Lewis - 19th Century Evangelicalism: Social Conscience and Global Vision
Speaker: Don Lewis
Remembering Andrew Walls - Poetry as a Means of Grace (Chapel Talk)
Speaker: Andrew Walls
Remembering J. I. Packer - Breakfast With Bunyan
Speaker: James I. Packer, Maxine Hancock
Faith and Migration: How Diaspora Churches Are Shaping North American Christianity
Speaker: Stanley John
Tears of Hope and Change: The Need for Lament in a Multicultural World - (Free)
Speaker: Soong-Chan Rah
Lunchtime Lecture - God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering: Theodicy without a Fall
Speaker: Bethany Sollereder
Celebrating Wisdom as the Threefold Gifts of the Magi - Matthew 2.1-23
Speaker: Jim Houston
BOOK LAUNCH LECTURE - THE BOOK OF ACTS: GOD'S STORY AND OUR STORY
Speaker: Dean Pinter
Contemplating Christ in Prayer: What Tabor teaches & how we so easily miss it
Speaker: Ross Hastings