Heidi A. Campbell

Heidi Campbell teaches media studies on themes related to media theory, global and popular culture and media & religion.

Her research focuses on how religion is translated and transformed by digital cultures and the influence of digital and mobile technologies on Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities.

She directs the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies, is co-editor of the Routledge’s Studies in Religion and Digital Culture book series and on the editorial board of the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, New Media & Society, the Journal of Media, Religion & Digital Culture and Ecclesiology & Ethnography.

She has authored over 100 articles and books including Exploring Religious Community Online (Peter Lang 2005), When Religion Meets New Media (Routledge 2010), Networked Theology (Baker Academic, 2016) and Digital Creatives and the Rethinking of Religious Authority (Routledge, forthcoming).

She has also edited four works including Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media World (Routledge 2013) and Playing with Religion in Video Games (University of Indiana Press, 2014) and Digital Judaism (Routledge 2015).

Recognized as an international scholar she has held research fellowships with the Institute for Advanced Studies-Durham University (UK), Caesarea Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science-University of Haifa (Israel), Institute for the Advanced Studies-University of Edinburgh (UK) and the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research-TAMU.

Her work on digital religion has been widely quoted in national and international media outlets including the Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian (UK), LaVanguardia (Spain), Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and she has been interviewed by CBC, BBC and Australian ABC radio and has appeared on PBS’s Religion and Ethics program.