"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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"This volume brings together the lectures and presentations of the main speakers at the eleventh edition of the Professional Seminar for Church Communications Offices: Dialogue, Respect and Freedom of Expression in the Public Sphere, organized by the School of Church Communications of the Pontifical
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Univwersity of the Holy Cross, in Rome in April 17 to 19, 2018." (Back cover)
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"Gli studi sul rapporto tra famiglia e mass-media solitamente limitano il loro campo di ricerca a questioni come l'effetto della violenza televisiva sui minori, la violenza domestica e il consumo familiare dei mezzi di comunicazione. Il progetto qui proposto considera la famiglia come istituzione un
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itaria e non solo, quindi, da una determinata e limitata prospettiva. Alla base di questa considerazione c'e' la convinzione che conoscere il modo in cui i mass-media rappresentano la famiglia ha un interesse non solo descrittivo ma anche operativo. Da un lato, infatti, può offrire strumenti che facilitino e orientino l'azione della famiglia come agente sociale, formativo e pubblico. Dall'altro, va ad arricchire il background dei professionisti della comunicazione." (Descrizione della casa editrice)
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