Sightings Articles
Common Sense and the 2020 Election
How do screens change our sense of national community?...
October 12, 2020
Tools for Studying Pandemic Religion
What can we learn from the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) about sighting and understanding religion during and after the pandemic? ...
July 13, 2020
Hip Hop and Christian Conversion Narratives
What do Kanye and Hip Hop have to do with Augustine of Hippo?...
January 30, 2020
Dopamine Fasting: Silicon Valley’s Not-So-New Trend
Does the new practice of dopamine fasting have religious roots?...
December 11, 2019
Mr. Zuckerberg, Meet Martin Luther
“Move fast and break things.” Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, used to rally his developers with these words. ...
February 4, 2019
Twitter’s “Like” Problem
Breaking up is always hard. But breaking off a decade-long relationship is especially difficult. So if you have Twitter thumbs, you may need to brace yourself because rumors are circulating that Twitter may soon be breaking up with the “Like” but...
November 15, 2018
How Facebook Is Transforming Religion
Editor’s Note: Sightings is pleased to bring you this follow-up to a previous column by the same author, “Social Media and Sin” (April 5), which was one of our best-received pieces of the past academic year. It addresses topics that are discussed in ...
July 12, 2018
Social Media and Sin
Facebook has come under fire of late for its actions (or inaction) surrounding Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But the problems with the social media network, and other platforms like it, run much deeper. Indeed, Sean ...