ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ways that social networking sites and blogs can function in practices of attentive television watching, collective reflection, and collaborative writing and will demonstrate that these practices express feminist values and are alternative methodologies to religious scholarship. There are several works in the areas of feminist literary criticism, media studies, television studies, and cultural criticism that articulate ways of using and critiquing popular media and discuss particular works and their issues regarding the representation of women. Interactive possibilities provided by the Internet have altered the way that television shows are presented to the viewing public. Social networking sites and blogs can become forums for viewers to share insights developed from attentive television viewing during or shortly after a programs telecast. Technologies that allow viewers to engage in critical use of television images and critique them through social media allow collaborative approaches to generating academic work to emerge.
