TY - JOUR T1 - La reconstrucción de lo “religioso” en la circulación en redes socio-digitales JF - La Trama de la Comunicación Y1 - 2014 A1 - Moisés Sbardelotto KW - Catholic Church KW - Catholicism KW - circulation KW - connectial dispositifs KW - mediatization KW - mediatization of religion KW - reconnections KW - socio-digital networks AB - En este artículo, se presenta una reflexión sobre la mediatización digital de la religión, fenómeno socio-comunicacional en que se sitúa la actual reconstrucción de lo religioso. En sitios católicos brasileños, se analiza el desvío de la práctica de la fe al ambiente online a partir de lógicas mediáticas, los llamados rituales online, que complejizan el fenómeno religioso y las procesualidades comunicacionales. Se describen tres modalidades de oferta y apropiación de lo sagrado: la inter faz interaccional, las interacciones discursivas y las interacciones rituales. A partir de esas nuevas modalidades de percepción y de expresión de lo sagrado, se analizan las prácticas de instituciones sociales como la Iglesia y la sociedad en general al hablar públicamente sobre lo religioso en las redes digitales – en este caso, lo “católico”, es decir, constructos simbólicos que la sociedad considera como vinculados a la doctrina y tradición de la Iglesia Católica-. Se analizan, entonces, los conceptos de reconexión y dispositivos conexiales. Como conclusión, se afirma que, en esa reconstrucción de lo “católico”, surge una religiosidad en experimentación marcada por e-rejías, o sea, nuevos sentidos simbólicos de lo religioso en red, “bricolajes de la fe” 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 – in this case, the “Catholic”, 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 “Catholic” arises a religiosity in experimentation marked by e-resies, ie new symbolic meanings of the networked religious, “bricolages of faith” in the digital environment. VL - 18 UR - http://www.latrama.fcpolit.unr.edu.ar/index.php/trama/article/view/472 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Sacred in Bits and Pixels: An Analysis of the Interactional Interface in Brazilian Catholic Online Rituals JF - Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (JRMDC) Y1 - 2014 A1 - Moisés Sbardelotto KW - Brazil KW - Catholic Church KW - Catholicism KW - Interaction KW - interface KW - internet KW - mediatization KW - mediatization of religion KW - online rituals KW - religion KW - technology AB - 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 – what I term here “online rituals” – 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. VL - 3 UR - http://jrmdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sbardelotto-Catholic-Sacred.pdf IS - 2 ER -