Covid-19, communication and religion
Church, communication & 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 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." ()p.2-4)
Catholic social media & online communities
Contents
Covid-19, communication and religion: Looking back at the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic / Norberto González Gaitano, 1
SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL CONTEXT
The Covid-19 catastrophe: A science communication mess? / Bienvenido León, Ignacio López-Goñi & Ramón Salaverría
6
The pandemic: An epiphany of relations and opportunities for transcendence / Pierpaolo Donati, 23
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
The formation of personal judgment in practical affairs: An epistemological view / José Angel Lombo, 58
How technology influences information gathering and information spreading / Giovanni Iacovitti, 76
Credibility, trust, and suspicion: Social relationships put to the test by Covid-19 / Sergio Belardinelli & Guido Gili, 91
NEWS COVERAGE OF THE CHURCH DEALING WITH THE PANDEMIC
La imagen de la Iglesia en la prensa Latinoamericana de referencia dominante durante la pandemia del Covid-19 / Alfredo García Luarte, 114
The image of Christian churches in the Slovak and Czech media during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic / Terézia Roncáková, 127
News coverage of the Church dealing with the pandemic: Spanish and Italian newspapers / María-José Pou-Amérigo, 154
News coverage of Christian churches and other religious bodies dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic: An analysis of newspapers in German and English / Rafal Lesniczak, 175
SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE CHURCH DEALING WITH THE PANDEMIC
The message of Pope Francis in time of pandemic: Engagement and sentiment on Twitter / Víctor Manuel Pérez-Martínez, 196
Dando sentido a los desafíos de la covid. Relatos de vida ordinaria en YouTube / Teresa Téramo, 220
The response of Roman Catholic priests to Covid-19: A case study on the pastoral and communication activities of nine dioceses worldwide during the first months of the pandemic / Daniel Arasa, Lidia Kim, Jean-Florent Angolafale & Daniele Murrighili, 238
SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL CONTEXT
The Covid-19 catastrophe: A science communication mess? / Bienvenido León, Ignacio López-Goñi & Ramón Salaverría
6
The pandemic: An epiphany of relations and opportunities for transcendence / Pierpaolo Donati, 23
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
The formation of personal judgment in practical affairs: An epistemological view / José Angel Lombo, 58
How technology influences information gathering and information spreading / Giovanni Iacovitti, 76
Credibility, trust, and suspicion: Social relationships put to the test by Covid-19 / Sergio Belardinelli & Guido Gili, 91
NEWS COVERAGE OF THE CHURCH DEALING WITH THE PANDEMIC
La imagen de la Iglesia en la prensa Latinoamericana de referencia dominante durante la pandemia del Covid-19 / Alfredo García Luarte, 114
The image of Christian churches in the Slovak and Czech media during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic / Terézia Roncáková, 127
News coverage of the Church dealing with the pandemic: Spanish and Italian newspapers / María-José Pou-Amérigo, 154
News coverage of Christian churches and other religious bodies dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic: An analysis of newspapers in German and English / Rafal Lesniczak, 175
SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE CHURCH DEALING WITH THE PANDEMIC
The message of Pope Francis in time of pandemic: Engagement and sentiment on Twitter / Víctor Manuel Pérez-Martínez, 196
Dando sentido a los desafíos de la covid. Relatos de vida ordinaria en YouTube / Teresa Téramo, 220
The response of Roman Catholic priests to Covid-19: A case study on the pastoral and communication activities of nine dioceses worldwide during the first months of the pandemic / Daniel Arasa, Lidia Kim, Jean-Florent Angolafale & Daniele Murrighili, 238
