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Tag: communion

Pedagogies of the Pandemic Blog 3: Digital Alienation in a Shared World

8th Feb 20218th Feb 2021standrewsfoundationblog

Nicolete Burbach (Consultant researcher in the Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice, and Lecturer in postmodern theology at the University of Durham).

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It has become a truism in Catholic circles that online forms of communion are not really communion; that the presence it offers is a false, ‘virtual’ one; and that however much closer it may seem to bring us lonely individuals, bound to our houses, the physical gulf between us is an alienation that can never be overcome in a purely digital medium.

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