Yeh, you read that first word aright. It's a term that may apply to the idea of bottom-up 'veillance' of public institutions, including companies, which is being examed in this article.
And my question is how this could affect church. Could it intensify the mega church thing, or could it take the wind out of its sails? What about alternative forms of church gathering? Hmmm.
And what about turning this trend churchwards?
I actually think that an essentially voluntary institution or family of institutions which is the church may find it increasingly hard to function in such circumstances. Not because it/we have something to hide, but because the costs of maintaining PR and the desire by many people to remain private individuals and not be exposed, via their church involvement, to potentially very public scrutiny. Churches in Britain are already showing sighns (I'll leave that typo as it has interesting resonances) of struggling with the weight of legislation about financial transparency (simply because of the level of accountancy expertise required and the cost of addressing it means that smaller churches serving more deprived areas find it harder to recruit suitable officers) and the need for proper checks on property and voluntary personal ... It could turn out that this is yet another force pushing towards informal, not legally organised/recognised gatherings where people 'do church' simply by meeting together in small groups not seeking social entity status. Maybe.
trendwatching.com: May 2007 trend briefing | TRANSPARENCY TYRANNY
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As camera and video phones become both ubiquitous and more powerful, reviews of anything and everything will go multimedia
And my question is how this could affect church. Could it intensify the mega church thing, or could it take the wind out of its sails? What about alternative forms of church gathering? Hmmm.
And what about turning this trend churchwards?
ever growing number of whistleblower sites, leaked emails, activist portals and disgruntled consumers to name and shame corporations for stupid, unlawful, unclean, greedy, unethical, despicable behavior.
I actually think that an essentially voluntary institution or family of institutions which is the church may find it increasingly hard to function in such circumstances. Not because it/we have something to hide, but because the costs of maintaining PR and the desire by many people to remain private individuals and not be exposed, via their church involvement, to potentially very public scrutiny. Churches in Britain are already showing sighns (I'll leave that typo as it has interesting resonances) of struggling with the weight of legislation about financial transparency (simply because of the level of accountancy expertise required and the cost of addressing it means that smaller churches serving more deprived areas find it harder to recruit suitable officers) and the need for proper checks on property and voluntary personal ... It could turn out that this is yet another force pushing towards informal, not legally organised/recognised gatherings where people 'do church' simply by meeting together in small groups not seeking social entity status. Maybe.
trendwatching.com: May 2007 trend briefing | TRANSPARENCY TYRANNY
Technorati Tags: consumerism, sousveillance, church,
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