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Towards Full Presence: A Pastoral Reflection on Engagement with Social Media
Vatican City: Dicastery for Communication (2023), 34 pp.
"The following pages are the result of a reflection involving experts, teachers, young professionals and leaders, lay persons, clergy, and religious. The aim is to address some of the main questions involving how Christians should engage social media. They are not meant to be precise “guidelines
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Fronteras, misión y cultura digital en la Iglesia desde la perspectiva sinodal
Medellín, volume 49, issue 187 (2023), pp. 335-352
"La aparición de los contenidos referidos a la cultura digital en el texto recientemente aprobado por la Asamblea Sinodal (2023), es un verdadero acontecimiento. Y lo es por varias razones: en primer lugar, porque contiene asuntos fundamentales que conciernen al desarrollo de la cultura digital que
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“There is Hope for a Different Way of Communicating. We Just Need the Courage to Dream It”: Dr. Paolo Ruffini at the SIGNIS Board of Directors Meeting in Bangkok
Signis (2023)
"From November 25th to the 28th, the capital of Thailand, Bangkok, welcomed the members ofthe SIGNIS Board of Directors who met for the first time in person since they were nominated. The meeting was an important moment to share the latest updates from the different SIGNIS regions around the world a
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Using YouTube as a Digital Pulpit. The Most Influential Catholic Youtubers in Spanish Speaking Countries: Who They Are and How They Communicate
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 1 (2023), pp. 59-83
"The Internet and social networks have enabled the appearance of new Catholic preachers with intense activity and a high number of followers on their channels. YouTube has been no exception to this communication trend. Some of the religious communicators who use this social network have in fact beco
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The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 158 pp.
"Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wildt interviews developers and players of games such as Assassin’s Creed to find out how and why the Pop Theology of Videogames is so appealing to mod
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Watching Competencies: Malay Women, Turkish Serial Dramas and Islamic Modernity
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 101-120
"This article discusses the emergence of Turkish serial dramas as a site for contestation over the impact of Islamic modernity on Malay women in contemporary Malaysia. Despite its popularity among Malay women, Turkish serial drama has been criticized for misleading and confusing the audience about I
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Democracy Through the Spirit: The Universal Church and its Interconnections with Brazilian Democracy
Horizontes Antropológicos, volume 29, issue 65, e650402 (2023), 32 pp.
"The connection between Evangelical church actors and contemporary Brazilian federal politics has raised many speculations, especially regarding the association of these churches with neoliberalism and populist governments. In a different manner, this article aims to show how churches from the third
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The Media Contest During the Iran–Iraq War: The Failure of Mediatized Shiism
Media, War & Conflict, volume 15, issue 3 (2022), pp. 378-398
"This article explains why Iran was unsuccessful in its efforts to persuade Shi'i Iraqis to support Iran during the critical early years of the Iran–Iraq war. Analysis of Iranian and Iraqi framing communicated to that target population shows Iran failed due to both structural and cultural factors.
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Religiöse Helden: Glaube, Religion und Moralität in der superheroischen Popkultur
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 220 pp.
"Superheld*innen sind in der Krise: Gut und Böse, Richtig und Falsch sind nach starken sozialen und politischen Umbrüchen längst nicht mehr klar und eindeutig. Für das Genre ein eklatantes Problem. Religion und Glaube könnten hier Orientierung bieten, verlieren aber - so der gängige Vorwurf -
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Some Pastoral Challenges and Perspectives on Shrines and Pilgrimages in the Philippines in Light of the 500 Years of Christianity Celebration and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 397-417
"A momentous occasion during the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines (2021-2022) was the opening of the doors of churches around the country for the Jubilee. It featured the country’s pilgrimage sites as dynamic sources of Catholicism. However, the pilgrims faced two challenges: t
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Empathy: The Key to Handle Digital Communications Post-Pandemic
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 143-159
"This essay establishes the four phenomena that have characterized the pandemic and digital communications. This refers to infodemic, which is the abundance of information and difficulty to manage it; hypersensitivity, indicated in classifying actors as heroes and villains; the development of atypic
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Israeli Information Policy, COVID-19 and the Ultra-Orthodox Haredim
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 45-67
"Against the background of the COVID-19 crisis in Israel, the country’s ultra-orthodox population, the Haredim, were faced with seemingly insuperable dilemmas of compromising their religious standards for the sake of dealing with the virus. The government launched a public relations campaign to pe
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Adiós al profeta de la Amazonía: Dom Cláudio Hummes (8 agosto 1934 - 4 julio 2022)
Misión CELAM, issue 8 (2022), 15 pp.
"La partida de nuestro hermano, el cardenal Cláudio Hummes, arzobispo emérito de São Paulo, deja un profundo vacío en la Iglesia de América Latina y el Caribe. Su legado, especialmente en la Iglesia amazónica, le permitieron trascender como uno de los más grandes e insignes obispos de nuestro
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The Role of Religions and Conspiracy Theories in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes
Politics and Governance, volume 10, issue 4 (2022), pp. 132-242
"This thematic issue asks about the role of religions and religious actors and conspiracy theories/theorists in democratic and authoritarian regimes in general. Special attention is given to the current Covid]19 pandemic, since the relevant state of emergency obviously endorses the persuasiveness
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Covid-19, Communication and Religion
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-263
"The contributions of this special issue are grouped in three sections: context, theoretical framework and empirical research. The first articles set up two important dimensions of the context we are living in that have to be definitely improved if we want to take advantage of the positive sides of
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Study Days Program Book
Seoul: Signis Korea (2022), 108 pp.
"Study days is one of the most important programs to communicate the meaning of SIGNIS World Congress. In Seoul, we have keynote speakers, panel speakers and discussants participating from fifteen countries to discuss 'Peace in the Digital World', the theme of the World Congress, composed of three s
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La communication sauvera l’Afrique
Kinshasa: Editions Baobab (2022), 159 pp.
"Sauver l'Afrique, c'est aussi soigner son image. La métaphore du selfie, de l'autoportrait doit nous inspirer. Les chrétiens africains ont un rôle particulier, d'annoncer de bonnes nouvelles à l'Afrique et de l'Afrique. Je publie ce recueil de textes à l'occasion de mes quarante ans de pratiqu
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La chiesa nel digitale: Strumenti e proposte
Todi: Tau Editrice; Associazione Web Cattolici Italiani (WECA) (2022), 247 pp.
"Il volume, nato dall’esperienza dei 150 video tutorial dell’Associazione Webmaster Cattolici Italiani (WECA), offre un cammino in quattro tappe per riflettere, scoprire, condividere sui social e pubblicare sul web l’esperienza di una Chiesa che, appunto, è presente anche nel mondo digitale.
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