Author: Brian Draper
Publisher: Scripture Union
Publication Date: June 2007
ISBN: 184427280X
Format: Booklet, 32 pages

Summary:

The iPod is nothing less than an icon in our time. A huge critical and commercial success, Apple's portable MP3 player and companion iTunes music service has revolutionised the way we buy and listen to music. But if, as Shane Hipps believes, the medium is the message and no technology is value neutral, what has the iPod revolutionised and what are the implications for Christians wanting to embrace the technology?

Details:

In this booklet LICC's Christian cultural commentator Brian Draper explores the iPod as an icon and invites readers to wrestle with issues of active and passive listening, music as commodity or communion, the fluidity of self-expression and the art of silence.

The topics covered in six sections are:

• What's on your iPOD and why?
• The soundtrack of our lives
• Jukebox jury
• Turn off, tune in
• OK, computer?
• Use it up and wear it out