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Campbell, Heidi Professor
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Heidi A Campbell is Professor of Communication and affiliate faculty in Religious Studies and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. She teaches undergrad and graduate course in digital media, religious studies and communication. She is also director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies, and a recognized as one of the founder of Digital Religion studies, a new subfield of study that explores how religious beliefs and practices are performed online and offline within digital culture.
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Xu, S., & Campbell, H. A.
(2021).
The internet usage of religious organizations in Mainland China: Case analysis of the Buddhist Association of China. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies.
3(2), 339-346.
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Tsuria, R., Bellar, W., Campbell, H., & Cho, K. J.
(2021).
Transferred, mediated or transformed: considering the design, features, and presentation of sacred text mobile applications. 36(1), 57-78.
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Campbell, H. A., & Sheldon, Z.
(2021).
Religious Responses to Social Distancing Revealed through Memes during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Religions.
12(9), 787-787.
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Tsuria, R., & Campbell, H. A.
(2021).
"In My Own Opinion": Negotiation of Rabbinical Authority Online in Responsa WithinKipa.co.il. Journal of Communication Inquiry.
45(1), 65-84.
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Peterson, K. M., & Campbell, H. A.
(2020).
Introduction Essay: Special Issue of RMDC on Public Scholarship, Media and Religion. 9(2), 141-147.
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Campbell, H., & University, T.
(2020).
Considering the Religious-Social Shaping of Technolog. 38(2), 124-158.
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Campbell, H. A., & Evolvi, G.
(2020).
Contextualizing current digital religion research on emerging technologies. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies.
2(1), 5-17.
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Xu, S., & Campbell, H. A.
(2018).
Surveying digital religion in China: Characteristics of religion on the Internet in Mainland China. Communication Review.
21(4), 253-276.
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Campbell, H. A., Arredondo, K., Dundas, K., & Wolf, C.
(2018).
The Dissonance of "Civil" Religion in Religious-Political Memetic Discourse During the 2016 Presidential Elections. Social Media and Society.
4(2), 2056305118782678-205630511878267.
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Aguilar, G. K., Campbell, H. A., Stanley, M., & Taylor, E.
(2017).
Communicating mixed messages about religion through internet memes. Information, Communication and Society.
20(10), 1498-1520.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2017).
Religious communication and technology. Annals of the International Communication Association.
41(3-4), 228-234.
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Tsuria, R., Yadlin-Segal, A., Vitullo, A., & Campbell, H. A.
(2017).
Approaches to digital methods in studies of digital religion. Communication Review.
20(2), 73-97.
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Lovheim, M., & Campbell, H. A.
(2017).
Considering critical methods and theoretical lenses in digital religion studies. New Media & Society.
19(1), 5-14.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2017).
Surveying theoretical approaches within digital religion studies. New Media & Society.
19(1), 15-24.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2016).
Framing the human-technology relationship: How Religious Digital Creatives engage posthuman narratives. Social Compass: international review of sociology of religion.
63(3), 302-318.
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Campbell, H. A., Wagner, R., Luft, S., Gregory, R., Grieve, G. P., & Zeiler, X.
(2016).
Gaming Religionworlds: Why Religious Studies Should Pay Attention to Religion in Gaming. Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
84(3), 641-664.
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Campbell, H. A., & Virtullo, A.
(2016).
Accessing Changes in the Study of Religious Communities in Digital Religion Studies. 1(1), 73-89.
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Campbell, H. A., & Vitullo, A.
(2016).
Assessing changes in the study of religious communities in digital religion studies. Church, Communication and Culture.
1(1), 73-89.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2016).
Problematizing the Human-Technology Relationship through Techno-Spiritual Myths Presented in The Machine, Transcendence and Her. Journal of Religion and Film.
20(1),
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Golan, O., & Campbell, H. A.
(2015).
Strategic Management of Religious Websites: TheCase of Israel's Orthodox Communities. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
20(4), 467-486.
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Campbell, H. A., Altenhofen, B., Bellar, W., & Cho, K. J.
(2014).
There's a religious app for that! A framework for studying religious mobile applications. Mobile Media and Communication.
2(2), 154-172.
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Campbell, H. A., & DeLashmutt, M. W.
(2014).
Studying Technology and Ecclesiology in Online Multi-Site Worship. Journal of Contemporary Religion.
29(2), 267-285.
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Bellar, W., Campbell, H. A., Cho, K. J., Terry, A., Tsuria, R., Yadlin-Segal, A., & Ziemer, J.
(2013).
Reading Religion in Internet Memes. 2(2), 1-39.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2013).
Religion and the Internet: A microcosm for studying Internet trends and implications. New Media & Society.
15(5), 680-694.
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Kluver, R., Campbell, H. A., & Balfour, S.
(2013).
Language and the Boundaries of Research: Media Monitoring Technologies in International Media Research. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.
57(1), 4-19.
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Kluver, R., Campbell, H. A., & Balfour, S.
(2013).
The limits of language: Digital technologies and new methodologies for global media research. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.
57(1), 4-19.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2012).
Understanding the Relationship between Religion Online and Offline in a Networked Society. Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
80(1), 64-93.
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Ward, P., & Campbell, H.
(2011).
Ordinary Theology as Narratives: An Empirical Study of Young People's Charismatic Worship in Scotland. International Journal of Practical Theology.
15(2), 226-242.
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Campbell, H. A., & Loevheim, M.
(2011).
Rethinking the online-offline connection in the study of religion online INTRODUCTION. Information, Communication and Society.
14(8), 1083-1096.
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Campbell, H. A., & Golan, O.
(2011).
Creating digital enclaves: Negotiation of the internet among bounded religious communities. Media Culture and Society.
33(5), 709-724.
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Campbell, H.
(2011).
Religion and the Internet in the Israeli Orthodox context. Israel Affairs.
17(3), 364-383.
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Ward, P., & Campbell, H. A.
(2011).
Worshiping as narrative and performance: An empirical study of a charismatic worship event. International Journal of Practical Theology.
15(2), 226-242.
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Campbell, H. A., & La Pastina, A. C.
(2010).
How the iPhone became divine: new media, religion and the intertextual circulation of meaning. New Media & Society.
12(7), 1191-1207.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2010).
Bloggers and religious authority online. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
15(2), 251-276.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2010).
Religious Authority and the Blogosphere. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
15(2), 251-276.
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Campbell, H., Lynch, G., & Ward, P.
(2009).
"Can You Hear the Army?'': Exploring Evangelical Discourse in Scottish Youth Prayer Meetings. Journal of Contemporary Religion.
24(2), 219-236.
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Campbell, H., & Calderon, P.
(2007).
The Question of Christian Community Online: The Case of the Artist World Network. Studies in World Christianity: the Edinburgh review of theology and religion.
13(3), 261-277.
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Campbell, H.
(2007).
What Hath God Wrought? Considering How Religious Communities Culture (or Kosher) the Cell Phone. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.
21(2), 191-203.
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Campbell, H.
(2007).
Who's Got the Power? Religious Authority and the Internet. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
12(3), 1043-1062.
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Campbell, H.
(2005).
Considering spiritual dimensions within computer-mediated communication studies. New Media & Society.
7(1), 110-134.
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Campbell, H.
(2005).
Making space for religion in Internet studies. The Information Society.
21(4), 309-315.
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Xu, S., & Campbell, H. A.
(2021).
The internet usage of religious organizations in Mainland China: Case analysis of the Buddhist Association of China. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies.
3(2), 339-346.
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book
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Campbell, H. A., & Bellar, W.
(2022).
Digital Religion, The Basics. Taylor & Francis.
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Campbell, H. A., & Garner, S.
(2016).
Networked Theology (Engaging Culture) Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture. Baker Academic.
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Campbell, H. A., & Grieve, G. P.
(2014).
Playing with religion in digital games. Indiana University Press.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2012).
Digital religion: Understanding religious practice in new media worlds. Routledge.
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Campbell, H.
(2010).
When religion meets new media. Routledge.
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Campbell, H.
(2005).
Exploring Religious Community Online We are One in the Network. Peter Lang.
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Campbell, H. A., & Bellar, W.
(2022).
Digital Religion, The Basics. Taylor & Francis.
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chapter
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Campbell, H. A., & Jones, G.
(2022).
When the Church Embraced a Posthuman Future: How Pastoral Negotiations with Technology During the Covid-19 Pandemic Resulted in an Implicit Acceptance of Posthumanism. Postdigital Theologies.
(pp. 201-216).
Springer Nature.
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Campbell, H., & University, T.
(2022).
Judaism and Internet. Digital Jewish Studies: Exploring Jewish Communities in the Online Space.
(pp. 13-20).
Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Tsuria, R., & Campbell, H. A.
(2021).
Introduction to the study of digital religion. Digital Religion.
(pp. 1-21).
Taylor & Francis.
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Bellar, W., & Campbell, H. A.
(2021).
Building Social Sites of Collaborative Research: A Case Study of the Network for New Media, Religion, and Digital Culture Studies. Digital Humanities and Research Methods in Religious Studies.
(pp. 303-318).
DE GRUYTER.
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Campbell, H. A., & Connelly, L.
(2020).
Religion and Digital Media. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality.
(pp. 471-486).
Wiley.
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Campbell, H. A., & Rule, F.
(2020).
The Practice of Digital Religion. Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten.
(pp. 363-371).
Springer Nature.
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Bellar, W. R., Cho, K. J., & Campbell, H. A.
(2018).
The Intersection of Religion and Mobile Technology. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 4TH EDITION.
(pp. 6161-6170).
IGI Global.
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Campbell, H. A., & Rule, F.
(2016).
The Practice of Digital Religion. Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten.
(pp. 1-9).
Springer Nature.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2015).
Introduction: Studying jewish engagement with digital media and culture. Campbell, H. (Eds.),
Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture.
(pp. 1-15).
Routledge.
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Campbell, H. A., & Bellar, W.
(2015).
Sanctifying the internet: Aish hatorah's use of the internet for digital outreach. Campbell, H. (Eds.),
Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture.
(pp. 74-90).
Routledge.
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Campbell, H. A., & Connelly, L.
(2015).
Religion and New Media. Wright, J. D. (Eds.),
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition).
(pp. 273-278).
Elsevier.
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Campbell, H. A., & Grieve, G. P.
(2014).
INTRODUCTION: What Playing with Religion Offers Digital Game Studies. CAMPBELL, H. A., & GRIEVE, G. P. (Eds.),
Playing with Religion in Digital Games.
(pp. 1-22).
Indiana University Press.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2014).
Reflection: Koshering the cell phone. Media, Religion and Culture: An Introduction.
(pp. 119-120).
Routledge.
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Campbell, H., & Connelly, L.
(2012).
Cyber Behavior and Religious Practice on the Internet. Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior.
(pp. 434-446).
IGI Global.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2012).
Community. Campbell, H. A. (Eds.),
Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds.
(pp. 57-71).
Routledge.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2012).
Introduction: The rise of the study of digital religion. Campbell, H. A. (Eds.),
(pp. 1-21).
Routledge.
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Campbell, H.
(2011).
Internet and Religion. The Handbook of Internet Studies.
(pp. 232-250).
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Campbell, H.
(2004).
"This is my church": Seeing the internet and club culture as spiritual spaces. Dawson, L. L., & Cowan, D. E. (Eds.),
Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet.
(pp. 107-121).
Routledge.
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Campbell, H. A., & Jones, G.
(2022).
When the Church Embraced a Posthuman Future: How Pastoral Negotiations with Technology During the Covid-19 Pandemic Resulted in an Implicit Acceptance of Posthumanism. Postdigital Theologies.
(pp. 201-216).
Springer Nature.
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institutional repository document
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Campbell, H., & Daly, J.
(2023).
Report 2- Executive Summary of Mission to Serve Tech: Churches "Lock Down" Technology During the Global Pandemic
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Campbell, H. A., Daly, J., Osteen, S. A., & Wallace, A.
(2023).
Mission to Serve Tech: Churches "Lock Down" Technology During The Global Pandemic
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Campbell, H. A.
(2022).
The Digital Religion Yearbook 2022
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Campbell, H. A., & Osteen, S.
(2022).
Embracing Pastoral Entrepreneurship during the Pandemic: Traits needed to be an Effective Digital Pastor
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Campbell, H. A., & Jordan, M.
(2022).
The Digital Divide, Digital Reluctance and Its Impact on Pandemic Churches
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Campbell, H.
(2021).
The Digital Religion Yearbook 2021
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Campbell, H. A.
(2021).
Report 1- Executive Summary of "When Pastors put on the Tech Hat: How Churches Digitized during Covid-19"
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Campbell, H. A., & Osteen, S.
(2021).
When Pastors put on the Tech Hat: How Churches Digitized during Covid-19
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Campbell, H.
(2021).
Revisiting the Distanced Church
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Campbell, H. A., & Shepherd, T.
(2021).
What Should Post-Pandemic Religion Look Like?
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Campbell, H.
(2021).
Needed but Lacking: Impact of Pastors Technology Background During the Pandemic
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Campbell, H. A.
(2020).
Digital Ecclesiology: A Global Conversation
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Campbell, H. A.
(2020).
Social Distancing in a World of Memes
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Campbell, H.
(2020).
Reflexiones sobre los desafos de las iglesias online
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Campbell, H. A.
(2020).
Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World
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Campbell, H.
(2020).
The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online-ePub version
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Campbell, H., & Osteen, S.
(2020).
Overview Report of Key Findings From The Distanced Church
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Sophia, O., & Campbell, H. A.
(2020).
Summarizing Heidi A Campbells Research on Religion and Church Online
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Campbell, H.
(2020).
The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online
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Campbell, H.
(2020).
The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online-mobile version
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Campbell, H. A., & Osteen, S.
(2020).
Research Summaries and Lessons on Doing Religion and Church Online
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Campbell, H., & Daly, J.
(2023).
Report 2- Executive Summary of Mission to Serve Tech: Churches "Lock Down" Technology During the Global Pandemic
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webpage
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Jackson, M., Campbell, H. A., Pierce, J. M., Lewis, J. G., Laver, M., & Johnston, W.
(2023).
Lent is here remind me what its all about? 5 essential reads
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Campbell, H. A.
(2020).
How to build community while worshipping online
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Campbell, H.
(2017).
How to use digital devices this Lent for holy reflection
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Jackson, M., Campbell, H. A., Pierce, J. M., Lewis, J. G., Laver, M., & Johnston, W.
(2023).
Lent is here remind me what its all about? 5 essential reads
editor of
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book
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Campbell, H. A.
(2015).
Digital Judaism: Jewish negotiations with digital media and culture
Campbell, H. A. (Eds.),
Routledge.
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Campbell, H. A.
(2015).
Digital Judaism: Jewish negotiations with digital media and culture
Campbell, H. A. (Eds.),
Routledge.
Research
principal investigator on
- Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Seminar Grant, Religious (In)Tolerance and (In)Civility in Digital Media & Culture awarded by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2018
- Glasscock Three-Year Seminar Grant awarded by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2014 - 2017
- CLLA International Travel & Research Grant-TAMU to attend & give plenary at International Society of Media, Religion & Culture Conference at University of Kent-UK awarded by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2014
- CLLA International Travel & Research Grant-TAMU to attend & keynote at French Association of Social Sciences of Religion Conference at University of Paris awarded by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2013
Teaching
teaching activities
- COMM330 Technology & Communicatn Instructor
- COMM350 Theories Of Media Comm Instructor
- COMM458 Global Media Instructor
- COMM480 Religious Communication Instructor
- COMM480 Religious Communication-italy Instructor
- COMM491 Research Instructor
- COMM497 Hnr-independent Honors Instructor
- COMM685 Directed Studies Instructor
- COMM691 Research Instructor
- COMM691 Research Instructor
- JOUR458 Global Media Instructor
- LBAR181 Hnr-fr Seminar Liberal Arts Instructor
- RELS480 Religious Communication Instructor
- RELS491 Research Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Altenhofen, Brian Joseph (2016-05). 'Sharing' the Catholic Faith: How Priests Establish/Maintain Religious Authority on Facebook.
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Bellar, Wendi R (2017-07). iPray: Understanding the Relationship Between Design and Use in Catholic and Islamic Mobile Prayer Applications.
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Calderon, Patricia A. (2010-01). THE MEDIA'S PLACE IN RELIGIOUS INDIVIDUALISM: A CASE STUDY OF LAKEWOOD CHURCH.
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Tsuria, Ruth (2017-07). New Media in the Jewish Bedroom: Exploring Religious Jewish Online Discourse Concerning Gender and Sexuality.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Computer-mediated Communication and Practical Theology, University of Edinburgh - (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) 2002
- M.Th. in Theology and Ethics of Communication, University of Edinburgh - (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) 1997
- B.A. in Communications and International Studies, Spring Arbor University - (Spring Arbor, Michigan, United States) 1992
awards and honors
- Research Impact Award, conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States), 2023
- Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award, conferred by Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research, 2018
- Professional Excellence Award, conferred by Spring Arbor University - (Spring Arbor, Michigan, United States), 2018
- Presidential Impact Fellows, conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States), 2018
- Scholar of the Year, conferred by Religious Communication Association, 2017
- Aggies Celebrate Teaching! Award, conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States), 2017
- Faculty Mentorship Award, conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States), 2014
- American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant, conferred by American Academy of Religion - (Atlanta, Georgia, United States), 2006
- Junior Scholar Grant, conferred by Southwest Commission on Religious Studies - (United States), 2006
- Fellow, conferred by University of Edinburgh - (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), 2003
Contact
first name
- Heidi
has last name
- Campbell
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Communication
4234 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4234
USA
Other
In the News
- heidic@tamu.edu