Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2248186
Luciano H. Elizalde, Arturo Fitz Herbert
One of the first rank authors to define the centrality of public communication for politics and society was J€ urgen Habermas. His discussion with Niklas Luhmann in the 80s and 90s of the 20th century placed communication as a central category within the social sciences. Although there were authors who had been working on communication, mass media, and cultural industry (Lazarsfeld, Lasswell, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Morin, Moles, to name a few), the philosophical weight of the discussion imposed by Habermas was decisive in elevating communication from being a minor category within the social sciences. His earliest book on the subject is: Strukturwandel der € Offentlichkeit. Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der b€ urgerlichen Gesellschaft. It was published in German in 1962, and in English in 1989, under the title The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Although Habermas began his academic career in 1956 as an assistant to Theodor Adorno at the University of Frankfurt, the book we are reviewing is Habermas’ habilitation thesis, defended in 1961 at the University of Marburg, under the supervision of Wolfgang Abendroth, a jurist and political scientist of great recognition at the time, whom Habermas explicitly acknowledges. In this study, Habermas sought to understand the structural transformation of the public sphere (an aspect considered in the Catalan edition’s translation) and the principle of publicity from a Hegelian-Marxist perspective, while also taking into account the liberal point of view introduced in the works of Kant, Stuart Mill, and Tocqueville. When delving into the concept of ‘bourgeois publicity’, one encounters a Habermas who is much more liberal than his social context might allow at that time. Especially considering his position within the group of members of the Frankfurt School’s Institute for Social Research, as a research assistant to Theodor Adorno. Interestingly, contrary to what many may think, this first work shows a more evident Kantian influence rather than a Marxist one. Habermas defines the concepts of public opinion and the public sphere under the influence of Kantian ideas of rationality and publicity. Habermas has already begun working on his fundamental work, which many years later will become his theory of communicative action. Under the influence of Kantian and Hegelian-Marxist categories, Habermas cannot explain how to achieve a critical public sphere that remains beyond the reach of the systematic domination of the market and the bureaucratic-absolutist state.
哈贝马斯（J€ urgen Habermas）是最早定义公共传播对政治和社会的核心作用的著名作家之一。他与尼克拉斯-卢曼（Niklas Luhmann）在二十世纪八九十年代的讨论将传播学作为社会科学的核心范畴。尽管当时也有一些学者（拉扎斯菲尔德、拉斯韦尔、阿多诺、本雅明、马尔库塞、莫林、莫尔斯等等）在研究传播、大众传媒和文化产业，但哈贝马斯的讨论所具有的哲学分量，决定性地使传播不再是社会科学中的一个次要范畴。哈贝马斯在这方面最早的著作是Strukturwandel der € Offentlichkeit.Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der b€ urgerlichen Gesellschaft.该书的德文版于 1962 年出版，英文版于 1989 年出版，书名为《The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere》。尽管哈贝马斯的学术生涯始于 1956 年，当时他在法兰克福大学担任西奥多-阿多诺的助手，但我们所评述的这本书是哈贝马斯 1961 年在马尔堡大学的毕业论文答辩，指导老师是当时享有盛誉的法学家和政治学家沃尔夫冈-阿本德洛特（Wolfgang Abendroth）。在这项研究中，哈贝马斯试图从黑格尔-马克思主义的视角来理解公共领域的结构转型（加泰罗尼亚语版译本中也考虑了这一问题）和公共性原则，同时也考虑到康德、斯图亚特-米尔和托克维尔著作中引入的自由主义观点。当深入研究 "资产阶级宣传 "这一概念时，我们会发现哈贝马斯比他当时所处的社会环境更加自由。特别是考虑到他在法兰克福学派社会研究所成员中的地位，即西奥多-阿多诺的研究助理。有趣的是，与许多人的想法相反，哈贝马斯的第一部著作更明显地受到了康德思想的影响，而不是马克思主义的影响。哈贝马斯在康德理性和公共性思想的影响下定义了公众舆论和公共领域的概念。哈贝马斯已经开始着手他的基础性工作，多年后这将成为他的传播行动理论。在康德和黑格尔-马克思主义范畴的影响下，哈贝马斯无法解释如何实现一个批判性的公共领域，使其不受市场和官僚专制主义国家的系统性支配。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2237072
Juan Narbona
Each historical period presents a different challenge for religions. Among other conditioning factors, our time is profoundly marked by the mediation of our human relationships (and also relationship with the divine) through digital technologies. With this premise, Golan and Martini have written Sacred Cyberspaces, a book in which they analyze how digital communications are modifying the perceived authority and legitimacy of religions, especially Catholicism. The focus on this denomination is due to the challenges that it has been facing in recent decades. For the authors, the Catholic Church is trying to react to a crisis of identity and popularity caused by secularism and modernity, as well as by the emergence of relevant competitors (especially in Latin America). In doing so, after overcoming the reticence of some groups, it is using digital media in order to make itself relevant again. Scholars are interested in analyzing how that use is changing the status quo of influence and authority within the institution. This study is a further contribution to an area of study on religious communication called Digital Religion, dedicated to analyzing how digital tools and languages are shaping the religious human experience. In this case, Golan and Martini are focusing on how a specific Christian denomination, where tradition and hierarchy carry so much weight, is changing its attitude towards digital technologies and how their use is altering the balances of trust, power and relevance with regard to the faithful. The authors recount how, in 2014, they saw at a Christian religious ceremony in the Holy Land a priest broadcasting it from his phone for his community in Mexico. ‘Throughout the conversation, likes and hearts were popping up on his screen’ (4), they remember. This double liturgical presence, physical and virtual, so to speak, suggested to the authors the question about how the digital realm is changing the Catholic spiritual experience. What authority does the broadcaster have? What perception do the spectators have of the sacred place? What is the religious experience of the celebration like? How does it interfere with the audience present? Are the new forms of religious participation a game-changer in terms of socio-religious activity, or does the internet merely reproduce existing structures, theologies, and modes of devotee interaction? The book takes this question to areas as varied as official websites, Instagram, YouTube and apps.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2166546
J. Pujol
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2174890
Sonsoles Madrid Gil
Abstract The recent racial attacks that took the lives of several African-Americans in the USA have unleashed a whole social movement in defence of the rights of minorities who face discrimination. What began as a plea in favour of the black population has become a convulsive current throughout America, seeking to cleanse its history by disassociating it from its founding sins, which include slavery, but above all, colonization as a whole. This amalgam of revisionist and vindictive currents has awakened a new culture. The Woke movement has initiated the battle for the narrative: they cancel any tendency contrary to their principles, silence freedom of expression and tear down any statue that represents any symbol of oppression or authority, Christopher Columbus at the head. These are the premises of post-modern society: wounded by the culture of victimisation, it promotes ideological tribalism that destroys the truth. We are witnessing a phenomenon that seeks to deconstruct history, resignify the present and depersonalise the future. The black legend resurfaces with new force and America runs the risk of blurring its identity traits. Listening to the voices of experts is essential in order to interpret the shadows of a legacy in the light of truth, which shows us the deep richness of a common culture.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2182801
D. Contreras
Abstract The year 2022 will be remembered for the outbreak of war in Ukraine, a conflict that shattered the incipient optimism caused by the gradual disappearance of the Covid pandemic. Alongside the succession of news about the war and the Pope’s appeals for peace, the media echoed other important events in the life of the Church. In these pages we offer a selection of the most significant ones. Obviously, this is a choice based on the author’s criteria, which include the persistence of the news throughout the year.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2170898
María Fernández de Casadevante
Abstract There is no doubt that lack of a common language is the main obstacle to communication between people from different backgrounds. However, the cultural aspect also plays a very important role, since even two people with a common language may not understand each other in certain situations, that is, when extra-linguistic factors intervene. We hypothesize that religion and religious beliefs and customs are part of one’s culture and may also pose communication barriers and lead to misinterpretation by society and more specifically by the public services that receive these people. To confirm our hypothesis, we intend to analyse the case of Germany, a society in which, statistically, Catholics and Muslims make up the two largest demographic groups, in order to find out whether the differences between the followers of these religions could lead to misunderstandings. In conclusion, we recommend intervention by properly trained linguistic-cultural mediators in order to avoid these barriers, and suggest for this purpose the implementation of Service-learning activities at the university level to foster translation and mediation competence among these future professionals.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2166859
Michael J. Mazza
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2183226
Nicolás Massmann
A few months after the resignation of Benedict XVI, a prestigious German cardinal and theologian wrote that this pontiff did not fit into any scheme (Kasper 2013, 490). With this he sought to underline something of the mystery of his person, but also the impossibility of interpreting and classifying him within the typical categories. However, this difficulty does not prevent us from glimpsing as a common thread of his pontificate some features with relatively clear outlines. One of them is to have elaborated a style of communicating the faith capable of reaching the heart and understanding of today’s man, while at the same time, presenting a message with sufficient intellectual credentials to enter into direct dialogue with contemporary culture. Understanding this communicative style implies first of all recognizing the fact that Benedict XVI never resigned from being a theologian. And it is precisely there, in his theological vision, that this style sinks its deepest roots. To be more precise, in the meaning that Ratzinger granted to the word as both the means chosen by God to communicate himself to man (revelation) and the most eminent mode of human communication (Benedict XVI 2008a). A word that, in order to be effective, must appeal to the moral conscience as well as to discursive reason and the affections of the heart. Benedict XVI trusted from the beginning of his pontificate in the silent power of the word (T€ uck 2013, 12), being aware that the echoes and fruits of it can come quite some time later. Although usually it did not take long to notice the positive effects. Good testimony to this positive effect includes the early fascination with which his speeches were received, the growing attendance at his catechetical sessions, the sales of his books and the spiritual nourishment many found in his homilies. This new style of discreet and sober communication definitely offers a certain novelty. Benedict XVI is clear that communicating does not consist only in transmitting wellarticulated ideas, following the rules of rhetoric or attending to the science of communication. This is where his theological vision comes into play once again: to communicate is to enter into communion (Scheffczyk 1966, 19). To communicate effectively, it is necessary to enter into the logic of personal encounter and to respect the dialogical dimension of the word. For Benedict XVI the communication of his message always meant a continuous communication of himself through his words, as Archbishop Gil Tamayo said in an interview (Latorre de Silva 2023). For only from love and friendship is authentic communication possible:
本笃十六世辞职几个月后，一位著名的德国红衣主教和神学家写道，这位教皇不适合任何计划(Kasper 2013, 490)。他试图以此来强调他这个人的神秘之处，但也强调了在典型的类别中解释和分类他的不可能性。然而，这一困难并不妨碍我们从他的教宗任期的一个共同线索瞥见一些特征与相对清晰的轮廓。其中之一是精心设计了一种传达信仰的风格，能够触及现代人的心灵和理解，同时，呈现出一种具有足够智力证书的信息，可以与当代文化直接对话。理解这种沟通方式意味着首先要认识到本笃十六世从未放弃神学家的身份。正是在那里，在他的神学视野中，这种风格扎下了最深的根。更确切地说，在意义上，Ratzinger授予这个词作为上帝选择的手段来沟通自己给人(启示)和最杰出的人类交流模式(本笃十六世2008a)。这个词，为了有效，必须诉诸道德良知，以及话语理性和心灵的情感。本笃十六世从上任之初就相信圣言无声的力量(T€uck 2013, 12)，他意识到圣言的回响和果实可能会在相当长的一段时间后才会出现。虽然通常用不了多久就能注意到积极的影响。这一积极影响的有力证据包括:早期他的演讲受到人们的热烈欢迎，他的教理问答课的出席人数不断增加，他的书的销量以及许多人从他的讲道中获得的精神滋养。这种谨慎而冷静的沟通方式无疑会带来某种新奇感。本笃十六世清楚地指出，沟通不只是传递清晰的思想，遵循修辞的规则或关注沟通的科学。这就是他的神学观点再次发挥作用的地方:沟通就是进入共融(Scheffczyk 1966,19)。为了有效地沟通，必须进入个人相遇的逻辑，并尊重话语的对话维度。对于本笃十六世来说，传达他的信息总是意味着通过他的话语不断地传达他自己，正如吉尔·塔马约大主教在一次采访中所说(Latorre de Silva 2023)。因为只有爱和友谊才是真正的交流;
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2166857
J. Langan
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2022.2159467
José M. Díaz-Dorronsoro
Abstract From the point of view of institutional communication, the Second Vatican Council can be considered the most significant media event of the 20th century organized by an institution. This was so because of its duration, impact on millions of people, and the media interest it generated. For the Catholic Church, the management of the official information of this Assembly was an undertaking of enormous proportions, involving complex challenges. This article provides an overview of how the Vatican II information services dealt with such challenges.
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