"The arrival of digital media has brought new challenges to the Roman Catholic Church. While the Church coped mostly successfully with the web 1.0, it has experienced greater difficulty in encountering the world of social media and web 2.0. Examining the role of Twitter in the 2015 Synod of Bishops
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- a general discussion on the family in the Church and in the contemporary world - the chapter found that the debate on the Internet, particularly through instantaneous micro-blogging, as well as the mainstream media, polarized discussion in the Synod. It is argued that digital media simplifies the debate and introduces a secularized approach to intra-religious events." (Summary)
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"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on-
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line journalism, and as a subject of foreign news, the book surveys religion reporting in five key countries: USA, Russia, India, China, & Nigeria. The book then looks at media events through the cases of the election of Pope Francis, and the death of rabbis. The book addresses the question of the influence of religion reporting in politics; the impact of religion reporting upon religious identity; and the role of social media - through looking at case studies in France, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and Israel." (Publisher description)
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"The Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) visited vary consistently in resources and services they offer. The table below summarizes the services currently available at each of the presented venues: Community radio and photocopies are always present; ICTs courses are also very present, except, at the
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moment, in Chitima, Dondo and Ilha de Mocambique; Each venue, then, differ for a number of different service specific to the place, ranging from scanning, printing and fax facilities, to television signal, language and civic education courses, cinema and local newspaper; Finally, the Internet is available for the public just in 2 out of the 10 CMCs." (Conclusion, page 11)
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"The authors present a broad corpus of data and suggest some potential theoretical patterns for their interpretation. Through this they invite the readers to look with a critical eye at their research and draw their own conclusions as to the potential implications these forms of usage have for the C
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hurch and for the larger study of religion online. The book also offers other researchers of religion and the internet access interesting material on Catholic use of the internet for their own analysis. Thus the book present a rich resource for future studies exploring how a distinctive religious community engages with the internet, and may aid in the identification of common patterns of internet appropriation or networking strategies used within different religious organizations." (Preface, page 10)
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