"As 12 palavras aqui reunidas – em simbólico compasso com os 12 anos de pontificado – são uma porta de entrada para o coração comunicador do Papa Francisco. Em sua voz e em seus silêncios, em suas mensagens e em seus encontros, ele nos mostrou que a comunicação é alegria que contagia, co
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ração que pulsa junto, diálogo que abre caminhos, encontro que gera comunhão, escuta que respeita o mistério do outro, esperança que não desiste, fraternidade que reconcilia, misericórdia que reergue, paz que se constrói no cotidiano, proximidade que encurta distâncias, ternura que humaniza e verdade que liberta." (Introdução, página 11)
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"Wie bedeutsam ist Religion noch für uns - gerade in einer Zeit, in der viele institutionelle Religionen immer mehr ihrer Mitglieder verlieren? Christina Behler nimmt die digitale Gesellschaft als Ausgangspunkt und liefert eine detaillierte Analyse der Twitter-Aktivität von Papst Franziskus. Auf G
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rundlage umfangreicher empirischer Daten macht sie so, vor dem Hintergrund einer systemtheoretischen Perspektive, die Funktion Sozialer Medien sichtbar und reflektiert dabei Muster sowie die Anschlussfähigkeit digitaler religiöser Kommunikation." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The last twenty years have brought profound changes in communication and technology. World leaders have extended their communication into the digital space. In the Catholic world, we speak of a digital papacy, seeing the growth of a community following the Pope on social media. Our study looks at h
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ow the language of the Holy See is changing in media-related texts published annually for World Communications Day. The research corpus consists of the messages of the last three popes – from 1995, when the vatican.va domain was created, up to 2022. Using textual analysis, we show that, in addition to the normal change in terminology, the approach of the popes as the ecclesiastical authorities to the community is changing, and the community itself is also changing. For example, the word ‘must,’ which was widely used in messages until the rise of social networks, has completely disappeared from the texts in the last few years. Our study leads us to posit that not only is there a change in how the popes address the Catholic community, but there is also a paradigm shift in society and culture." (Abstract)
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"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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Covid-19’s effects to bring about real social relations and a good communication of science [...] The following articles deal with three important core components needed to set up a theoretical framework, from which this issue intends to start a serious scholarly conversation around the lessons learned from the Covid’s impact on social communication: (1) how a person knows and shapes his/her judgment in practical affairs when s/he is critically involved in them, (2) why and how science has surrendered to technology in the last decades, (3) and how practical knowledge is socially shared [...] The context and theoretical framework having been set up, the issue enters into the empirical part of our research: several papers examine the news coverage of the Church dealing with the pandemic in a good sample of newspapers around the world, one paper looks at how social media have engaged in the response to the pandemic by the Catholic Church, and another at how local churches have managed the challenges of the pandemic [...] The analysis of worldwide media coverage aims to find out how the mainstream press has portrayed the role of Christian churches and other religious bodies in dealing with the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. All researchers have broadly shared a common qualitative methodology: looking for the frames and inducing the topoi (common places) underlying the resulting frames of the examination of news and editorial items." (Pages 2-4)
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"Sacred Cyberspaces reveals how long-standing conflicts over power, influence, and legitimacy within religious organizations are being waged in the digital realm. Oren Golan and Michele Martini describe the tensions that arise as religious groups seek to reach the faithful in online spaces where tra
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ditional clerical authorities have less expertise and control. Focusing on the Catholic world, they examine the rise of devotional digital entrepreneurship and the roles of lay religious webmasters: the video makers, app developers, and web designers who devote their lives to evangelization and who literally run the show. The book also explores the nature of religious experience as it pivots to online platforms: cyberculture, prayer, ceremonies, pilgrimage, proselytization, and the relation to the transcendental. From live-streaming at world-famous sites in the Holy Land to the Instagram feed of Pope Francis, Sacred Cyberspaces evaluates the contemporary media strategies of the Catholic Church and sheds light on the future of religion online." (Publisher description)
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"Pope Francis has gained a title as ‘the Pope of Surprises’ for his unprecedented and unconventional papal narratives, personal viewpoints, and equally electrifying mediatised public appearances. One of these surprises was his videotaped appearance on TED. By adopting postsecularism as a concept
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ual framework, this study examines the dominant discursive features in Pope Francis’ TED Talks. Three main types of narrative features were found: emphasis on the postsecular solidarity between the religious and the secular, negotiating religious doctrinal engagement in public spheres, and finally, de-emphasising the papal magisterial authority. While the surface language of the Pope’s TED Talks operates in a postsecular inclusive discursive spirit, its ontological roots are nevertheless cemented in a Catholic epistemology and a faith-motivated claim for moral theology. The similarities between Christian sermons and TED’s communicative norms and practices make the Pope’s new rhetoric possible without excessive attenuation of the Catholic vocabulary." (Abstract)
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"Qual è lo stile di comunicazione degli ultimi papi? Quali strumenti ha usato il Vaticano per comunicare e quali problemi incontra chi ne è responsabile? P. Federico Lombardi ha passato molti anni in questo servizio e ci racconta la sua esperienza in rapporto ravvicinato con Giovanni Paolo II, Ben
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edetto XVI e Francesco, e alla guida di tre istituzioni: la Radio Vaticana, il Centro Televisivo Vaticano e la Sala Stampa della Santa Sede. Tempi di entusiasmo e momenti di crisi. Passaggi storici, come le transizioni da un pontificato all'altro. Trasformazioni di tecnologie e linguaggi [...] Attraverso gli occhi e il cuore di un «addetto ai lavori» ci troviamo immersi nella dinamica della storia del nostro tempo, vissuta nella prospettiva della Chiesa e più specificamente del servizio del papa. «Ho sempre pensato che il mio servizio era eccezionalmente bello e privilegiato, perché ero al servizio di una comunicazione positiva, in massima parte di messaggi di amore, di speranza, di solidarietà, di dignità delle persone, di crescita umana, di perdono, di pace [...] E anche quando si trattava di moniti, di messa in guardia da rischi, di condanne dure di crimini e ingiustizie, ciò era sempre invariabilmente per il bene di tutti. Che cosa di più grande e bello potevo desiderare di fare?" (Prefazione di Ferruccio De Bortoli)
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"El Papa Francisco, contribuye directamente a señalar tanto las nociones básicas para una experiencia auténticamente comunicativa, describe los ambientes que gestan y nutren esta capacidad, especialmente desde el núcleo de la familia, así como recomienda el rumbo del desempeño profesional de l
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os comunicadores a la par de su comprensión y manejo de los recursos tecnológicos tanto tradicionales como de nueva generación a su alcance. Así, se puede concluir, y a partir de una síntesis conceptual de sus Mensajes dirigidos a la Jornada Mundial de las Comunicaciones Sociales cuatro ejes que pudieran representar su carácter de Pastor y comunicador. Se agrupan así sus constantes sobre la experiencia de la comunicación cuatro dimensiones: 1. Entender la comunicación humana; 2. Comprender el don de la palabra; 3. Comprender los nuevos escenarios de la palabra, y; 4. La comunicación como promesa y anuncio." (Conclusión, página 19)
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"Religious matters are much more present in standard media coverage than many people think. This paper discusses eight of the most relevant issues and events about the Catholic Church that made news headlines in 2018. The highlights, listed in chronological order, are: Pope Francis’ January trip t
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o Chile and Peru; the fifth anniversary in March of the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope; the release of Wim Wenders’ documentary film Pope Francis - A Man of His Word; Pope Francis’ August trip to the World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland; the global clergy sexual abuse crisis and the Viganò affair; the agreement between the Holy See and China on appointment of bishops in September; the canonization of Archbishop Romero and Pope Paul VI in Rome in October; and the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment also in October. The selection is inevitably subjective, but the author has chosen these topics mainly because they received substantial coverage from international mainstream media." (Abstract)
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"La complejidad de la comunicación en una organización tan diversa y con tantos ‘portavoces’ como la Iglesia Católica resulta fascinante para los investigadores. El ‘valor mediático’ de los tres últimos pontífices ha ayudado a difundir las ideas de la Iglesia Católica a través de los
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medios de un modo que no tiene precedentes. Los pontificados de Benedicto XVI y Francisco han profundizado, cada uno con acentos propios, en el legado mediático de Juan Pablo II: el crecimiento de la estatura mediática de los papas es quizá una de las grandes historias de la comunicación y los medios a finales del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI. Con la herencia de San Juan Pablo II como punto de partida, se realiza una síntesis de hitos comunicativos relevantes de los pontificados de Benedicto y Francisco en la última década, se plantean ‘patologías’ que pueden acechar a la comunicación de instituciones globales tan complejas como la Iglesia Católica y se proponen recomendaciones para paliarlas." (Resumen)
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"Papal visits to different countries are very important to bring about closeness between the Church and the people. To assure the effectiveness of a visit, it is essential to have a well-planned broadcast of the event. The broadcast will transmit the message to the audience and move it beyond time a
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nd space, transforming a local homily into a universal message. The experience of organizing the broadcast of a visit can be used as a road map to futures visits; this work may help to plan a broadcast from scratch and understand the essential role TV has on today’s apostolic trips. A good broadcast strategy will facilitate the relationship with the media and make it easier to generate content and news with the provided feeds." (Abstract)
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"Il libro che avete tra le mani in questo momento non è quello che pensate. Se credete di leggere l'ennesima biografia di Jorge Mario Bergoglio resterete delusi. Questo non è un testo agiografico teso ad esaltare la figura o la personalità di Papa Francesco. Non si propone come un'analisi del suo
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pontificato, e certamente non pretende di offrire né interpretazioni della sua teologia, né considerazioni sul suo Magistero. Questo volume intende offrire al lettore una chiave di lettura della comunicazione del Papa innovativa e coraggiosa. Ci rivela delle sfaccettature insolite, sia dell'uomo Bergoglio come persona sia di Papa Francesco come personalità. A partire dai gesti. I gesti sono un linguaggio universale. Sono un richiamo a tutto ciò che ci unisce come esseri umani, in modo atavico, antico e antropologico. I gesti sgorgano dal più profondo della nostra memoria collettiva, scatenati da ciò che è più vero, più spontaneo e più intimo. I gesti sono autenticità. L'autore ha approfondito i temi della gestualità e dell'autenticità in occasione del corso di Paralinguismo della Pontificia Università Gregoriana di Roma, da me tenuto alcuni anni fa." (Prefazione, Seàn-Patrick Lovett)
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"Más que sus cartas y exhortaciones lo que más atrae del Papa son sus gestos cotidianos, que fascinan a creyentes y no creyentes, y que deben de ponerse, sin lugar a dudas, junto a los grandes documentos de su pontificado. Por lo tanto, esta sería su gran encíclica, la de los gestos, que van hac
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iendo relaidad y poniendo en práctica lo que predica: la misericordia, la Iglesia pobre y para los pobres, que sale al encuentro y está cerca del sentir de la gente, una Iglesia que recorre junto a las mujeres y hombres el camino de la vida. El libro está dividido en cuatro partes principales: 1. Los gestos de la vida cotidiana. 2. Los gestos de la caridad y de la misericordia. 3. Los gestos pastorales. 4. Los gestos de la comunicación." (Cubierta del libro)
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"Immer seltener stehen päpstliche Lehrentscheidungen, Enzykliken oder Kardinalserhebungen im Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Immer häufiger geht es um die Person des Papstes selbst, seinen Charakter und seine Handlungen. So ist der Papst heute einer der Menschen, der weltweit am meisten fotogr
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afiert, am meisten gefilmt, über den am meisten berichtet und am meisten debattiert wird. Wenn man vom Papst sprechen will, muss man also zwangsläufig auch von den Medien sprechen. Genau das nimmt sich der Band vor. Aus der Perspektive verschiedener Professionen und Disziplinen werden Reflexionen über den Papst und die Medien interdisziplinär und multiperspektivisch zusammengeführt: Die Artikel renommierter Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaftler, Literatur- und Filmwissenschaftler, Soziologen und Psychologen, (Kunst-)Historiker und Theologen ergänzen journalistische und biographische, künstlerische und satirische, hagiographische und zeithistorische Annäherungen prominenter Autoren." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"La conclusión de esta investigación es que la visión comunicativa del Papa Francisco está ligada al testimonio de vida, al gesto, a la metáfora, a los ejemplos de la vida real, a la misericordia y al encuentro con el otro. En este encuentro se debe vivir un verdadero diálogo en el que se debe
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comunicar el rostro misericordioso de Dios. Su estilo de comunicación se caracteriza por comunicar con el cuerpo y las palabras. Es una comunicación creadora de encuentros. Esto implica apertura a los demás, valorar a los otros. El Papa crea diálogos con espontaneidad, lo que se observa cuando interrumpe un discurso para dar espacio al diálogo y mirar al auditorio que le escucha. De esa manera, el Papa da confianza a la gente y se hace más cercano." (Conclusión, páginas 119-120)
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"This study investigates Pope Benedict’s visit to Turkey as a global media event. The presentation includes the interaction between the global and the local in mass communication studies. The argument is that this visit makes visible some contradictions such as: East/West, EU/Turkey, Christian/Mus
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lim, Catholic/Orthodox. Before this trip, it was presupposed that these contradictions and stereotypes reinforced by the media were to set the agenda; however, it did not happen to be the case. Instead, the existing frames had been replaced by the new ones, which was called a frame shift in news reporting. The discourse method is used to prove this hypothesis. Data were collected during the trip and the visual materials helped in building our theoretical perspective. The aim is to observe the handling of this media event by Western press. Within this perspective, our sample had been formed by pioneering newspapers: Le Monde, Le Figaro, La Libération, The Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times, Der Spiegel, BBC on-line and Time (magazine)." (Abstract)
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