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The Digital Nativity or Christmas 2.0

4 January 2011
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The video below tells the story of the Nativity using social media. ViralVideosNr1 uses “Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, [and] Amazon” to tell the story of the birth of Jesus.
For example, as Irina Slutsky at AdAge writes, “after Mary gets a text message on her iPhone from the Archangel Gabriel [...]

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The Bible Christmas Story

24 December 2010
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Do you like your religion with a dose of humor? What about the Christmas Story — yes, the one about the birth of the baby Jesus.
Adam Hoggatt created this reverent but tongue-in-cheek animation of the Bible’s Christmas Story. I love the part where Mary drops the bucket into the well when Joseph tells her that [...]

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Christmas Unwrapped- The History of Christmas

22 December 2010

How do you determine the origins of something, especially a religious holiday that is celebrated worldwide, and that has been celebrated for centuries? How can you tame all of that data and information, and determine what is “true” and “not true” in terms of the holiday’s origins in the mists of time?
In the documentary [...]

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Billshrink: Christmas By the Numbers

18 December 2010
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How much has consumer spending during the holiday season changed since the Great Recession began? How does the date of Christmas relate to a Roman pagan holiday? Did you know that a real Christmas tree costs less than a fake one?
Billshrink examines some of the data behind our start-of-winter frenzy with the infographic Christmas [...]

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