"In 1998 at the Montreal assemblies of UNDA, the World Catholic Organization for Radio and Television, and OCIC, the International Catholic Organization for Cinema, the two associations agreed to merge. The merger was achieved in just over three years. This book gives an account of the merger proces
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s using reports written at the time and minutes of meetings. With the vote for SIGNIS in Rome in November 2001, the new World Catholic Association for Communication was inaugurated. This book gives a history of the Organization for its first two terms as we celebrate 80 years of its predecessors OCIC and UNDA. Special contributions come from the last President of UNDA, Angela Ann Zukowski MHSH, Robert Molhant, past Secretary General of OCIC and SIGNIS, Peter Thomas, past Vice President of UNDA and present Vice President of SIGNIS, Bernardo Suate, director of the Rome Services, Guido Convents, Cinema Desk, SIGNIS, and Jim McDonnell, SIGNIS England and Advocacy Desk." (Signis Media 4/2009)
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"Among processes towards democratisation, it has been asserted that alternative radio has a central role in the citizen making of the poor. However, it is important to analyse in detail what possibilities an alternative or citizens' radio has to strengthen ideas of citizenship and transform the publ
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ic space into a critical and deliberative public in urban sites. This paper focuses on one local Catholic radio station in Huaycan, a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima. It describes the radio's journalistic work, showing examples of how they mobilise local leaders and monitor democratic processes, such as municipal elections and the district's participatory budget. In addition, it shows how the public uses the radio to channel their claims. It also identifies the factors that prevent the radio from fully empowering the public and transforming public space into a more critical and democratic one." (Abstract)
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"Este livro é resultado de experiências estudos e reflexões sobre a ação pastoral e o seu irrecusável papel de fazer da comunicação nexo prioritário para o anúncio do Evangelho e para a renovação da Igreja. Concebe a comunicação em suas várias dimensões - humana e técnica teórica e
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prática - visando a uma pastoral apta a interpretar o tempo presente e a encontrar os caminhos para uma comunicação do Evangelho segundo as linguagens e a sensibilidade dos homens e das mulheres do nosso tempo. Apresenta a pastoral da comunicação de forma orgânica no contexto da estrutura da comunidade eclesial e não a partir do simulacro do marketing individual. Mantendo coerência com a caminhada da década de 1980 o texto incorpora justamente o frescor dos estudos da comunicação que apontam para a importância de considerar a comunidade como o ecossistema comunicativo a ser trabalhado e evangelizado para que ela mesma se torne produtora de uma nova mensagem sempre acolhedora da vida e da luminosa presença do Mestre. O livro traz preciosas diretrizes e orientações de como organizar a Pastoral da Comunicação nos vários níveis - nacional regional diocesano e paroquial - tendo sempre como objetivo o mandato de Jesus: "Ide por todo o mundo e pregai o Evangelho a toda a criatura". (Descrição da editora de livros)
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"This is the latest edition of the textbook especially written for seminary and religious communication formation. It is also published in India and has translations in Italian and Bahasa Indonesia. A Spanish translation is underway. New ideas are infused in a chapter “New media communication.”
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The history of communication is extended to the evolution of digitized media, satellites and Internet. Updated statistics on mass media penetration worldwide also add up to a comprehensive understanding of communication, and its influence on the Church’s essential mission. The book’s strength lies in the theology of communication expounded, and in practical explanation of human communication theories and concepts." (Publisher description)
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"This book serves as a primer on Church teachings and practices concerning communication issues. It is in fact a quite condensed text on nearly every aspect of Church communication. Eilers views communication as a theological principle that "guides and directs the way we see, study, and live our Chr
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istian faith in a time when communication is central to human society" (Page 23). The first part is a rapid march through "communication spirituality," a comparison of the way the Church and media operate and a discussion of the way they relate to each other; ethical models of communication; the contributions of the Church to communication in society; and citation of numerous papal encyclicals and other Church pronouncements on communication. The book's longest section is its discussion of Pastoral Communication, covering preaching and liturgy as well as communication planning, the specifities of different communication means from interpersonal communication to multimedia, and parish, diocesan and national communication. The final unit deals with evangelizing communication with an emphasis on the importance of understanding its inter-cultural aspects, especially in non-Western cultures. Eilers offers suggestions for using traditional means of communications such as drama, song, pilgrimages for evangelization, and he stresses the importance of inter-religious dialogue." (CAMECO Update 3-2009)
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"This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema." (Publisher description)
"Die Arbeitshilfe richtet sich in erster Linie an kirchliche Einrichtungen wie z. B. Kirchengemeinden oder kirchliche Verbände und Vereinigungen, die sich mit einer eigenen Website im Internet vorstellen wollen. Sie möchte auf die wichtigsten rechtlichen Gesichtspunkte hinweisen, die hierbei beach
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tet werden sollten. Nicht behandelt werden spezielle Rechtsfragen, wie sie sich beispielsweise in der „Online-Beratung“ ergeben oder im Zusammenhang mit gewerblichen Unternehmungen kirchlicher Einrichtungen auftreten. Die Darstellung beschränkt sich nicht nur auf die Aspekte, die Ersteller einer eigenen Website zu beachten haben, sie befasst sich darüber hinaus auch mit der Frage, welche Rechte der Betreiber einer Website hat und wie er sich in Fällen, in denen ihm selbst Verletzungen von Rechten anderer vorgeworfen wird, verhalten soll." (Einleitung)
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"Rather than being marginal to American popular culture, Catholic people, places, and rituals are all central to the world of the movie. Catholics in the Movies begins with an introductory essay that orients readers to the ways that films appear in culture and describes the broad trends that can be
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seen in the movies' hundred-year history of representing Catholics. Each chapter is written by a noted scholar of American religion who concentrates on one movie engaging important historical, artistic, and religious issues. Each then places the film within American cultural and social history, discusses the film as an expression of Catholic concerns of the period, and relates the film to others of its genre." (Publisher description)
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"La cultura mediática con sus diversos lenguajes y oportunidades se constituye en un desafío para la acción evangelizadora, que por naturaleza es la comunicación de una Buena Nueva, de una persona, de una propuesta de vida. Los discípulos misioneros estamos llamados a comunicar a nuestros herma
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nos la invitación de Jesús para un encuentro con Él, para transformar su vida cotidiana; para conocerlo cada vez más a través de la catequesis y la vida sacramental; para que también ellos se constituyan en comunicadores de la verdad, del camino y la vida que Él nos ofrece. El autor de este aporte a la profundización de las orientaciones de Aparecida sobre el tema de la comunicación, presbítero Carlos Arturo Quintero, comunicador social, nos conduce desde la reflexión sobre la importancia de la comunicación para la acción evangelizadora hasta llevarnos al desafío que ahora enfrentamos: la Misión Continental; pasando por el papel de la comunicación en la comunión eclesial y su contribución." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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