Title | Discovering the Digital Authority: Twitter as Reporting Tool for Papal Activities |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Guzek, D |
Journal | Online - Heidelberg Journal for Religions on the Internet |
Abstract | This article focuses on Pope Francis activities on Twitter and understanding the way of using this kind of social media by religious authorities. By examining Francis’s tweets from half a year of his pontificate (from September 13, 2013 to March 16, 2014), the author offers an in-depth overview of methods for studying the presence of religious authority in the digital world. In fact, he faces both the rapidly growing Heidi Campbell’s Religious Social-Shaping of Technology analytic frame and the grounded theory approach. Conducting the research the author shows that Pope Francis’s Twitter can be treated as a good example of ‘religion online’ based on specific strategy to extend religious authority from the real to the virtual world. |
URL | https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/religions/article/view/23533 |