There are some questions I've been asking myself for years. After some frightening, life-threatening experiences, I began questioning things that were instilled in me from my youth about my Catholic upbringing and God. I was taught that if I believe in God, I'd "go to Heaven" when I die, and if I was a good Catholic, God would protect me.

Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media around the World: Communication Case Studies is an edited collection of cutting edge research on the practical applications of diverse types of emerging media technologies in a variety of industries and in many different regions of the world. In recent years, emergent social media have initiated a revolution comparable in impact to the industrial revolution or the invention of the Internet. Today, social media’s usage statistics are mind-boggling: almost ...