@inbook {2132, title = {The Complexities of Mediatization: Charting the Road Ahead}, booktitle = {Dynamics Of Mediatization}, number = {Transforming Communications {\textendash} Studies in Cross-Media Research}, year = {2017}, pages = {315-331}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan, Cham}, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan, Cham}, abstract = {This chapter discusses some of the complexities of mediatization that have appeared in the volume. Firstly, we reflect on the complexities related to the institutional, cultural and social dimensions of mediatization as well as the various levels of mediatization (e.g., with reference to a macro-micro scale). Secondly, on this basis, we systematize the main features that run through the complex nature of the mediatization process, and we account for three kinds of complexity: the complexity of the media environment or landscape, the complexity of an entanglement of practices with digital media technologies, and the complexity of the levels of analysis. Reflecting these complexities, in a third section, the chapter delineates some future trajectories of mediatization research.}, keywords = {mediatization}, issn = {978-3-319-62982-7}, url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-62983-4_15$\#$citeas}, author = {Bolin, G and Hepp, A} } @conference {1894, title = {La foi et le langage : paradigmes de sens pour les m{\'e}dias}, booktitle = {4th Workshop international Essachess: M{\'e}dia, spiritualit{\'e} et la{\"\i}cit{\'e} : Regards crois{\'e}s franco-roumains}, year = {2015}, month = {12/2015}, publisher = {Iarsic}, organization = {Iarsic}, address = {Bucarest-Villa Noel}, abstract = {Cette communication t{\^a}chera de montrer dans la perspective d{\textquoteright}une {\'e}pist{\'e}mologie sociale que les paradigmes de sens irr{\'e}ductibles pour toute type de m{\'e}diatisation sont la foi et le langage. Elle produira une argumentation en faveur de l{\textquoteright}hypoth{\`e}se que ce qui est fondamentalement sp{\'e}cifique pour les diff{\'e}rents approches m{\'e}diatiques de la r{\'e}alit{\'e} ne r{\'e}side pas dans la production de sens, mais dans la direction que chaque type de m{\'e}diatisation se donne pour orienter la vie de l{\textquoteright}individu, de la soci{\'e}t{\'e} et d{\textquoteright}une mani{\`e}re g{\'e}n{\'e}rale du monde. Enfin, la communication apportera une lecture de la libert{\'e} de conscience dans ce contexte o{\`u} l{\textquoteright}{\^e}tre humain - un existant donn{\'e} - doit s{\textquoteright} "in-former" sous la pression de l{\textquoteright}{\^e}tre social - un existant historique construit collectivement.}, keywords = {Faith, freedom of opinion, language, media, mediatization, religion, secularization}, isbn = {978-2-9532450-6-6}, url = {http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/45600/ssoar-2015-bratosin-La_foi_et_le_langage.pdf?sequence=3}, author = {Bratosin, Stefan} } @article {2042, title = {Surveying Theoretical Approaches within Digital Religion Studies}, journal = {New Media and Society}, volume = {19}, year = {2017}, pages = {15-24}, abstract = {This article provides an overview of the development of Digital Religion studies and the theoretical approaches frequently employed within this area. Through considering the ways and theories of mediatization, mediation of meaning, and the religious{\textendash}social shaping of technology have been engaged and applied in studies of new media technologies, religion, and digital culture we see how Digital Religion studies has grown into a unique area of inquiry informed by both Internet studies and media, religion, and culture studies. Overall, it offers a concise summary of the current state of research inquiry within Digital Religion studies.}, keywords = {Digital Religion, internet, mediation of meaning, mediatization, New Media, religion, religious{\textendash}social shaping of technology, theory}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444816649912}, author = {Campbell, H} } @article {2083, title = {Considering religion and mediatization through a case study of~J+K{\textquoteright}s big day (The J K wedding entrance dance): a response to Stig Hjarvard}, journal = {Culture and Religion~}, volume = {12}, year = {2011}, pages = {167{\textendash}184}, abstract = {This article reviews the strengths and weaknesses of Hjarvard{\textquoteright}s theory of the mediatisation of religion. By suggesting actor-network theory as a methodological approach to the study of the mediatisation of religion, this article proposes a case study of the viral wedding video, J K wedding entrance dance, to highlight problems with the assertion that the media are replacing or displacing religion{\textquoteright}s authoritative role in society. Drawing upon recent theories of how digital and mobile media are reshaping society by enabling participation, remediation and bricolage, I suggest instead that the media do not bring about secularisation, but rather that the media are contributing to a personalisation of what it means to be religious (or not). This article thus introduces an alternative definition to the concept of mediatisation: that mediatisation may be understood as the process by which collective uses of communication media extend the development of independent media industries and their circulation of narratives, contribute to new forms of action and interaction in the social world and give shape to how we think of humanity and our place in the world. }, keywords = {actor-network theory, mediatization, personalization, religion, secularization, viral video, wedding}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14755610.2011.579717}, author = {Clark, LS} } @inbook {2133, title = {Introduction: Situating Dynamics of Mediatization}, booktitle = {Dynamics Of Mediatization}, number = {Transforming Communications {\textendash} Studies in Cross-Media Research}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan, Cham}, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan, Cham}, abstract = {In the introduction to this volume, we set out why it is important to focus on dynamics of mediatization and how this contributes to the study of media-related social change. We stress that to fully understand dynamics of change, mediatization should be studied in interrelation with other meta-processes, such as commercialization or politicization. Furthermore, also the contexts of change need to be taken seriously, in terms of field(s) of analysis, space and geography, as well as in terms of time, thereby avoiding so-called epochalist thinking.}, keywords = {mediatization}, issn = {978-3-319-62982-7}, url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-62983-4_1$\#$citeas}, author = {Driessens, O and Hjarvard, S} } @inbook {2136, title = {Rethinking Transforming Communications: An Introduction}, booktitle = {Communicative Figurations}, number = { Transforming Communications {\textendash} Studies in Cross-Media Research}, year = {2018}, pages = {3-13}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan, Cham}, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan, Cham}, abstract = {This chapter introduces the contributions to this volume in three stages. First, it is argued that when considering the present stage of deep mediatization, it is insufficient to concentrate solely on the media as such: one also has to consider how communication transforms with changing media. It is by virtue of the change in human communicative practices together with other social practices that processes of social construction change. This is what is called transforming communications. Second, the chapter outlines why it is helpful to take a figurational approach for researching such transforming communications. The term figuration goes back to Norbert Elias, who used it to describe structured interrelations between humans. However, for the analysis in question, it is extended to reflect questions of communication. Finally, this introduction provides an overview of the arguments presented in the following chapters.}, keywords = {Communication, mediatization}, issn = {978-3-319-65583-3}, url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_1$\#$citeas}, author = {Hepp, A and Breiter, A and Hasebrink, U} } @article {2084, title = {Mediatization: analyzing transformations of religion from a gender perspective}, journal = {Media, Culture \& Society }, volume = {38}, year = {2016}, pages = {18{\textendash}27}, abstract = {This book presents new research on the changing relationship between the media, religion and culture from a Nordic perspective, while engaging with the theory of the mediatization of religion. In contemporary society, news journalism, film and television series, as well as new digital media, provide critical commentary on religion while also enabling new forms of religious imagery and interaction. Religious leaders, communities and individuals reflexively negotiate their presence within this new mediatized reality. In an increasingly globalized Nordic context, the media have also come to play an important role in the performance of both individual and social identities, and in the representation and development of social and religious conflicts. Through empirical analysis and theoretical discussions, scholars from film and media studies, the sociology of religion, and theology contribute to the development of the theory of the mediatization of religion as well as to the broader research field of media, religion and culture.}, keywords = {GENDER, mediatization, public sphere, religion}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0163443715615411?journalCode=mcsa}, author = {L{\"o}vheim, M} } @inbook {2137, title = {{\textquoteleft}Blogging Sometimes Leads to Dementia, Doesn{\textquoteright}t It?{\textquoteright} The Roman Catholic Church in Times of Deep Mediatization}, booktitle = {Communicative Figurations}, number = { Transforming Communications {\textendash} Studies in Cross-Media Research}, year = {2018}, pages = {267-286}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan, Cham}, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan, Cham}, abstract = {The chapter analyzes religious authorities in Catholicism in times of deep mediatization. Like few other organizations, the Catholic Church seems to be caught between the general tendency of deep mediatization and its own reluctance to adapt to a mediatized world and society. One topic that is directly connected to media change is the construction of religious authority. Unlike earlier perspectives on the relation of religious authority and media, the figurational perspective offers the possibility to look at changes in the construction of religious authority and their interrelation with media change on different levels. Those different levels refer to different actor constellations and different media ensembles, as well as to different levels of authority, in other words local and translocal authority. In this chapter, we will explore how official religious authorities in the Catholic Church, namely priests in different positions, deal with deep mediatization. This includes the question concerning how they use media themselves, in which situations they use or don{\textquoteright}t use media, how and why they are reluctant; but also how they define their own and other{\textquoteright}s authority in a mediatized society and how all of this effects the organization as a whole. We will find out that there are different scopes in which authority is constructed differently: while the degree of mediatization is relatively low on the local scope, religious authorities are expected to go with mediatization in a translocal and global scope.}, keywords = {Blogging, dementia, mediatization, Roman Catholic Church}, issn = {978-3-319-65583-3}, url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_11$\#$citeas}, author = {Radde-Antweiler, K and Gr{\"u}nenthal, H and Gogolok, S} } @article {1594, title = {La reconstrucci{\'o}n de lo {\textquotedblleft}religioso{\textquotedblright} en la circulaci{\'o}n en redes socio-digitales}, journal = {La Trama de la Comunicaci{\'o}n}, volume = {18}, year = {2014}, chapter = {151}, abstract = {En este art{\'\i}culo, se presenta una reflexi{\'o}n sobre la mediatizaci{\'o}n digital de la religi{\'o}n, fen{\'o}meno socio-comunicacional en que se sit{\'u}a la actual reconstrucci{\'o}n de lo religioso. En sitios cat{\'o}licos brasile{\~n}os, se analiza el desv{\'\i}o de la pr{\'a}ctica de la fe al ambiente online a partir de l{\'o}gicas medi{\'a}ticas, los llamados rituales online, que complejizan el fen{\'o}meno religioso y las procesualidades comunicacionales. Se describen tres modalidades de oferta y apropiaci{\'o}n de lo sagrado: la inter faz interaccional, las interacciones discursivas y las interacciones rituales. A partir de esas nuevas modalidades de percepci{\'o}n y de expresi{\'o}n de lo sagrado, se analizan las pr{\'a}cticas de instituciones sociales como la Iglesia y la sociedad en general al hablar p{\'u}blicamente sobre lo religioso en las redes digitales {\textendash} en este caso, lo {\textquotedblleft}cat{\'o}lico{\textquotedblright}, es decir, constructos simb{\'o}licos que la sociedad considera como vinculados a la doctrina y tradici{\'o}n de la Iglesia Cat{\'o}lica-. Se analizan, entonces, los conceptos de reconexi{\'o}n y dispositivos conexiales. Como conclusi{\'o}n, se afirma que, en esa reconstrucci{\'o}n de lo {\textquotedblleft}cat{\'o}lico{\textquotedblright}, surge una religiosidad en experimentaci{\'o}n marcada por e-rej{\'\i}as, o sea, nuevos sentidos simb{\'o}licos de lo religioso en red, {\textquotedblleft}bricolajes de la fe{\textquotedblright} en el ambiente digital. This article presents a reflection on the digital mediatization of religion, socio-communicational phenomenon in which stands the current reconstruction of the religious. In Brazilian Catholic sites, it analyzes the displacement of the practice of the faith to the online environment based on mediatic logics, the so-called rituals online, that turn the religious phenomena and the communication processualities more complex. It describes three forms of of fer and appropriation of the sacred: the interactional inter face, the discursive interactions and the ritual interactions. From these new modes of perception and expression of the sacred, it analyses practices of social institutions as the Church and society in general to speak publicly about religion in digital networks {\textendash} in this case, the {\textquotedblleft}Catholic{\textquotedblright}, ie symbolic constructs that society considers as linked to the doctrine and tradition of the Catholic Church. It then discusses the concepts of reconnection and connectial devices. In conclusion, it is stated that in the reconstruction of the {\textquotedblleft}Catholic{\textquotedblright} arises a religiosity in experimentation marked by e-resies, ie new symbolic meanings of the networked religious, {\textquotedblleft}bricolages of faith{\textquotedblright} in the digital environment.}, keywords = {Catholic Church, Catholicism, circulation, connectial dispositifs, mediatization, mediatization of religion, reconnections, socio-digital networks}, issn = {1668-5628}, url = {http://www.latrama.fcpolit.unr.edu.ar/index.php/trama/article/view/472}, author = {Mois{\'e}s Sbardelotto} } @article {1593, title = {The Sacred in Bits and Pixels: An Analysis of the Interactional Interface in Brazilian Catholic Online Rituals}, journal = {Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (JRMDC)}, volume = {3}, year = {2014}, chapter = {82}, abstract = {Through digital technologies, a new form of communicational interaction between the user and the sacred occurs in an online religious experience. This phenomenon is illustrated in practice by numerous religious services present in the online Catholic environment, which manifest new modes of discourse and religious practices, beyond the scope of the traditional church {\textendash} what I term here {\textquotedblleft}online rituals{\textquotedblright} {\textendash} marked by a process of mediatization of religion. In this paper, from a corpus of four Brazilian websites, I analyze key concepts for the understanding of this phenomenon, including digital mediatization and interface. I examine, in these Brazilian Catholic websites, the communicational configurations of the religious experience from five areas of the interactional interface: the screen; peripherals; the organizational structure of content on websites; the graphic composition of the webpages; and possible interface failures. Finally, I examine a shift in the communicational dynamics of religion today, marked by new materialities present in online religious rituals.}, keywords = {Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Interaction, interface, internet, mediatization, mediatization of religion, online rituals, religion, technology}, issn = {2165-9214}, url = {http://jrmdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sbardelotto-Catholic-Sacred.pdf}, author = {Mois{\'e}s Sbardelotto} } @article {468, title = {{\textquoteright}E o Verbo se fez bit{\textquoteright}: Uma an{\'a}lise da experi{\^e}ncia religiosa na internet}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Com a manifesta{\c c}{\~a}o de um fen{\^o}meno de apropria{\c c}{\~a}o da Internet por parte das institui{\c c}{\~o}es religiosas cat{\'o}licas, este texto busca analisar o funcionamento das intera{\c c}{\~o}es entre fiel-Igreja-Deus para a viv{\^e}ncia, a pr{\'a}tica e a experi{\^e}ncia da f{\'e} nos rituais online do ambiente digital cat{\'o}lico brasileiro. Examina-se particularmente, por meio de uma metodologia anal{\'\i}tica qualitativa, fundamentada nas contribui{\c c}{\~o}es do pensamento sist{\^e}mico e complexo, um corpus de pesquisa de quatro sites cat{\'o}licos: CatolicaNet, Irm{\~a}s Ap{\'o}stolas do Sagrado Cora{\c c}{\~a}o de Jesus {\textendash} Prov{\'\i}ncia do Paran{\'a}, A12 e Pe. Reginaldo Manzotti. Perscruta-se, assim, que religi{\~a}o resulta dessa manifesta{\c c}{\~a}o de pr{\'a}ticas religiosas a partir do emprego e da atividade dos meios digitais, com o objetivo de colaborar com a an{\'a}lise das primeiras consequ{\^e}ncias diretas que esse fen{\^o}meno est{\'a} trazendo para a religi{\~a}o e, particularmente, para a Igreja Cat{\'o}lica como a conhecemos hoje. A partir de uma leitura de alguns estudos que abordam a interface entre comunica{\c c}{\~a}o e fen{\^o}meno religioso na Internet, reflete-se sobre alguns conceitos e perspectivas de an{\'a}lise para a investiga{\c c}{\~a}o dos sites cat{\'o}licos institucionais brasileiros, como a midiatiza{\c c}{\~a}o digital do sistema religioso; a quest{\~a}o da t{\'e}cnica transformada em meio; novas modalidades de experiencia{\c c}{\~a}o; e novas configura{\c c}{\~o}es de tempo-espa{\c c}o-materialidades na experi{\^e}ncia religiosa do fiel-internauta. Em seguida, descrevem-se tr{\^e}s modalidades de estrat{\'e}gias de oferta de sagrado por parte do sistema e de apropria{\c c}{\~a}o por parte do fiel nos sites cat{\'o}licos brasileiros, a partir de infer{\^e}ncias obtidas em nosso corpus de pesquisa: os n{\'\i}veis tecnol{\'o}gico e simb{\'o}lico da interface interacional; quatro fluxos de intera{\c c}{\~o}es discursivas; e dois fluxos, com dois subfluxos cada, de intera{\c c}{\~o}es rituais. Como pistas de conclus{\~a}o, aponta-se que, por meio dessas estrat{\'e}gias interacionais, a religi{\~a}o que nasce no ambiente online {\'e} vivenciada, praticada e experienciada por meio de novas temporalidades, novas espacialidades, novas materialidades, novas discursividades e novas ritualidades marcadas pelos protocolos e processualidades da Internet.}, keywords = {Interaction, internet, mediatization, religion, system}, isbn = {1806-003X}, url = {http://www.ihu.unisinos.br/images/stories/cadernos/ihu/035cadernosihu.pdf}, author = {Mois{\'e}s Sbardelotto} }