How is the movement from mass media to massively participatory media reflected in the creation of Christian worship?
Schultze: Participation varies enormously among people. Some like to participate only as consumers, not producers. Still, a sizeable percentage of people who participate in worship also like contributing to the ways that worship is planned, executed, evaluated, and renewed. Worship is going in all kinds of directions with tremendous creativity and vibrancy as well as silliness and misguided practices. The question behind the technological explosion is how to educate the “masses” about the history and purposes of worship so they have enough context to participate wisely in worship and in worship renewal-beyond being just consumers. Fromm: What new spiritual practices are emerging from the networked churches? What traditional practices are being renewed or transformed? What are the new rules and the old rules for spiritual practices? Schultze: Churches can be networked within and without (intra and inter). The intra-networking is beginning to take off among the so-called emerging churche
