![]() Therefore we need voices and perspectives from various technology and media contexts to reach a more global understanding on key missional issues related to the media. But it is also partly because the current media situation is fundamentally different between technology-rich regions and other areas of the world, even though the situation in many places changes rapidly. Therefore everyone involved in Cape Town 2010 is a potential discussion partner in this area. When it comes to media, most if not all of us are participants, observers and producers. This is partly due to the fact that the various contemporary media are no longer the privileged and exclusive area of media enthusiasts, media professionals and media academics. The nature of the topic of this Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper invites contributions and reflections from others. This is illustrated by defining features of the Cape Town 2010 Congress such as the Lausanne Global Conversation and the Cape Town GlobaLink. The rapidly developing information and communication technologies of today’s world constitute a radically different media context for the Lausanne III Congress compared to the previous two Lausanne world congresses in 19, not to mention the much earlier conference in Edinburgh 1910. The varieties of local, global and glocal media messages certainly provide complex and ambivalent contexts for the key task of making the case for the truth of Christ in the 21st century. The missional issues related to media and technology are therefore of real significance to themes and topics at the Lausanne III Congress. Wherever we live in today’s globalized and pluralistic world, information and communication technologies increasingly influence and impact our human lives, our Christian witness and our Christian ministries. Media and technology: introductory reflections Responses to this paper through the Lausanne Global Conversation were fed back to the author and others to help shape their final presentations at the Congress. Editor’s Note : This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper was written by Lars Dahle as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the related session on ‘Media Messages Matter: On Global Technologies, Gloca l* Trends, and Gospel Truth’ at the Cape Town 2010 Congress.
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