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Social Media Utilization, Perceptions and Experience Among Vowed Religious Men and Women in the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi, Kenya
Nairobi: Daystar University, Master Thesis (2023), xii, 112 pp.
"The main objectives of the study were: to assess the perceptions of vowed religious people towards social media; to explore the uses to which vowed religious people put social media; to find out the experiences of vowed religious people regarding their social media utilization. The study employed m
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Infopastoral: O Agir Pastoral Numa Sociedade Em Transformação
São Paulo: Paulus (2023), 128 pp.
"A autora oferece aos comunicadores católicos uma nova proposta de evangelização e presença da Igreja no ambiente digital: a infopastoral, ou infopráxis, que nasce da convicção de que o povo de Deus precisa integrar a mensagem do Evangelho à cultura digital, na realidade da infosfera, e, ass
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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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Churches Online in Times of Corona. Die CONTOC-Studie: Empirische Einsichten, Interpretationen und Perspektiven
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2023), viii, 599 pp.
"Die CONTOC-Studie hat in ökumenischer und internationaler Ausrichtung die digitale kirchliche Praxis unter den Bedingungen der Corona-Pandemie im Frühsommer 2020 erforscht. Dieser Band dokumentiert die Rahmenbedingungen und Umfrageergebnisse in den beteiligten Ländern. Daran schließen sich Pers
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SIMBAHAY: Flipping Church Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic Uncertainty and Implications to Spirituality
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 68-99
"Guided by the relational prayer theory (Baesler, 2002), this paper analyzed how Catholics flipped their homes as church to be saved from COVID-19 uncertainties by attending online masses at the Manila Cathedral (MC). Through Facebook Analytics, the study determined the number of attendees to online
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La formazione dei catechisti nell'era del cyberspazio: Nuovi processi formativi per catechisti
Todi: Tau Editrice (2022), 248 pp.
"L’avvento dell’era digitale ha interessato sempre più il settore di ricerca delle scienze della comunicazione con notevoli ricadute anche in campo catechetico. Questo libro prova a rispondere all’esigenza di formare una nuova figura di catechista chiamato ad interagire con i “soggetti digi
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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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The Catholic Church and the Media: A Text Mining Analysis of Vatican Documents from 1967 to 2020
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 21, issue 3 (2022), pp. 155-173
"In the last two decades, mainstream religious institutions have progressively incorporated ICTs in both their organizational infrastructure and their devotional practices. Stemming from digital religion scholarship, the present article aims at investigating how the official discourse of the Catholi
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Communication Leading to Communion: Social Communications in the Digital Culture Through the Catholic Church’s Engagement in Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 369-396
"With the prohibition of religious gatherings by the Philippine government to help curb the spread of the COVID-19, the Catholic Church had to close its doors to the public and instead hold masses and other activities online, primarily utilizing the livestreaming features of Facebook. The study prob
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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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Influenciadores digitais da fé: Celebridades ou evangelizadores?
Rumores, volume 16, issue 31 (2022), pp. 230-252
"Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão inicial sobre o conceito de influenciadores digitais, considerando as perspectivas anteriores dos estudos de celebridades, com objetivo de propor novas dimensões para a análise desse fenômeno circunscrito no ambiente da fé. Buscando apreender os fenômenos
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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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Sacred Cyberspaces: Catholicism, New Media, and the Religious Experience
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2022), xvii, 218 pp.
"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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Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries
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London: Bloomsbury Academic (2022), 240 pp.
"This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North Amer
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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
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Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.
"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual
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La formazione dei catechisti nell’era del cyberspazio: Nuovi processi formativi per catechisti
Todi (IT): Tau Editrice (2022), 248 pp.
"L’avvento dell’era digitale ha interessato sempre più il settore di ricerca delle scienze della comunicazione con notevoli ricadute anche in campo catechetico. Questo libro prova a rispondere all’esigenza di formare una nuova figura di catechista chiamato ad interagire con i “soggetti digi
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Santa Dulce dos pobres: Canonização e engajamento no Instagram
In: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas VII: atualidades
Daniela Magalhaes Costa de Jesus; José Gileá; Kátia Maria Mendes Silva; Pedro Camilo de Figueirêdo Neto (eds.)
Editora Mente Aberta (2022), pp. 252-265
"Santa Dulce dos Pobres foi a primeira mulher brasileira a receber esse título pela Igreja Católica, o que reforça a hipótese de que esse episódio, somado à sua trajetória de doação e entrega ao bem comum, associado ao trabalho que continuou com as Obras Sociais Irmã Dulce (OSID), especial
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Church Communication in the New Normal: Perspectives from Asia and Beyond
Top Insights
Bangkok: Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication (2022), xxvii, 343 pp.
"Despite the wide-ranging topics presented in this collection, this volume takes ‘communication’ as the keyword for the various research and reflections on the life and mission of the Catholic Church during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as post-crisis. The reader will readily recognize that what
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Comunicar o Evangelho: Panorama Histórico do Magistério da Igreja sobre a Comunicação
São Paulo: Paulus (2021), 111 pp.
"Comunicar o Evangelho apresenta de modo conciso os diversos momentos históricos da relação Igreja e comunicação, a partir de três chaves de leitura que representam as grandes mudanças de paradigma nessa relação: 1) Das praças ao púlpito; 2) Do púlpito ao estúdio; 3) Do estúdio de volt
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Pastoral Creativity Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Experiences
Inspiring Practice
Bangkog, Manila: Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication;Logos (Divine Word) Publications (2021), ix, 243 pp.
"The content of the book is organized into four sections. The first three sections are essays recounting real-world experiences of pastoral agents. These essays are roughly divided into three sub-groups. The first group of essays focus on the parish setting and the ministries that each parish attemp
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