What is changing in papal communication with the rise of social media?
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 ho...
| Published in: | Church, Communication and Culture |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2023
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Church, Communication and Culture
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| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KCB Papacy KDB Roman Catholic Church ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Francis B Papacy B Media B Communication |
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| Summary: | 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 how 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2375-3242 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church, Communication and Culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2244011 |