Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2170897
F. Pérez-Latre, C. Sádaba-Chalezquer, X. Bringué
Abstract The crisis triggered by the effects of Covid-19 has created a new context for work among journalists. High unemployment rates in Europe, particularly worrying among the youth, are yet another reason to think about working conditions in the media sector, which has been considered crucial to the health of democratic societies. The practice of communication professions has privileged activity, production, and fast publication, which now takes place in multiple media, mobile and social platforms. According to different research, distrust in media content seems to be growing. Is there a relationship between these two problems? Are there ways in line with the anthropology of work that could help to regain trust? The academic literature has studied the crisis of trust in institutions and has also explored the work of journalists. However, there are not many studies that bridge the structural crisis of trust in the media and the working conditions of professionals. This article seeks to contribute to alleviating this gap. It proposes three possible lines of argument to develop the anthropological keys to the work of journalists: a recovery of time, making research the working method; a primacy of audiences; and a need to stress the personal growth of professionals.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2023.2174889
Carmen Fuente-Cobo, Luis Gutiérrez-de-Cabiedes, Ana Visiers Elizaincin
Abstract The communication of religious ideas has followed a path that is similar to the dissemination of other types of content. The Internet and social networks have enabled the appearance of new Catholic preachers with intense activity and a high number of followers on their channels. YouTube has been no exception to this communication trend. Some of the religious communicators who use this social network have in fact become the natural heirs to the former TV preachers, or televangelists. Others have adapted their religious discourse to the narratives of these channels, addressing young audiences who are familiar with the new languages. Still others have launched channels on YouTube in order to broaden the audience of their usual liturgical and clerical activities. They are the new influencers in the religious realm, capable of multiplying audiences, establishing dialogues with them, and generating engagement. This article shows the results of an analysis of the Spanish-speaking Catholic communicators with the largest number of followers on YouTube. Based on a sample of videos with the most views, conclusions have been drawn about profiles, followers, subjects, production, positioning, generating engagement, and relationships with audiences.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2022.2108471
T. Galanti
I believe that artists, like certain madmen, have within them the seed of a very distant memory, something that happened before all stories. Beauty is the spark of everything. I, here, believe that in certain men a memory is left, grainy, gone into the subconscious. These men look at everything as it really is, before the thing that happened, and that changed everything.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2022.2089902
Marc Carroggio
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2022.2089187
Yago de la Cierva
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2022.2086891
Cristian Mendoza
This book by Shoshana Zuboff, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, can be counted among the studies that denounce the existence of social oppression of the individual. It is not difficult to suppose that the author seeks to free us from the institutional control exercised, in this case, by the Internet industry and social networks. The old books of political philosophy that proposed to free the individual from social institutions, as JeanJacques Rousseau and his disciples did in their day, also had a warning tone. Zuboff takes up this urgency a few centuries later to remind us that the use of digital tools is neither neutral nor innocuous, but responds to the economic design of those who own these tools. ‘The fact that what is called the technological development of modern times has been so largely oriented economically to profit-making is one of the fundamental facts of the history of technology’ (22). The social institutions of the digital world use and control us to obtain economic results, hence the title ‘surveillance capitalism’. ‘I consider surveillance capitalism’s operations as a challenge to the elementary right to the future tense, which accounts for the individual’s ability to imagine, intend, promise, and construct a future’ (25).
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2022.2104739
José-Alfredo Peris-Cancio, G. Marco
Abstract This article considers whether the Pope Francis’s proposal in his approach to cinema as a subject for reflection, i.e., as a suitable media for presenting ideas, can be related to an interpretation of the best cinema that highlights the dignity of the person, particularly the most fragile and defenceless, and which thereby helps us train our gaze on true humanity. To answer this question, the meaning of Hollywood’s ‘filmic personalism’ as a cinematic philosophy and its relationship with film studies will be analysed. Following from this, the cinematographic phenomenology of film studies of French personalism will be related to Hollywood’s film personalism to show that there are elements of deep convergence around defending cinema as an art that serves personal dignity, despite certain aspects of difference. This will be particularly visible in the interrelationship that can be traced between Italian neorealism and Hollywood filmic personalism, proving that neorealism was a form of personalism for some Italian writers. At the same time, we keep in mind that there are current expressions of filmic personalism. We conclude with solid arguments that are given to establish an approach between the cinematic proposal of Pope Francis and filmic personalism.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2022.2111972
Giorgio Faro
Abstract In this article I wish to shed light on the meaning of work, which contributes to a deep understanding of ourselves, our identity, our dignity, and our desire for happiness, by specifying some intrinsic virtues: industriousness, professionalism (both technical and moral), and the spirit of service. Two opposing interpretations are to be avoided: the merely functional, minimalist interpretation (Aristotelian in origin); and the emphatic, excessive interpretation of ‘workism’ (connected to the scientific revolution and scientism, as human dominance over nature through work). In the conclusion, I instead emphasize Aristotle, pointing out that, in work, all three dynamic dimensions of the human being that he theorized are included: alongside the productive dimension (poiesis), we in fact find the moral dimension (praxis) and the speculative dimension (theoria), which Aristotle (but not his successors) believed were implicated in every activity. This makes it possible to highlight the multifaceted semantics of work. I anticipate that I will often turn to fiction and to the extreme experiences of the gulags and concentration camps to make this essay more compelling.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2022.2111975
Joseph Lee
Abstract Catholic entities are being sued for personal injury compensation arising from sexual abuse perpetrated by church personnel. In some jurisdictions, the situation has deteriorated because of changes to the statute of limitations, the naming of an entity to sue, the setting aside of previous settlements, and abuse compensation law firms. Oftentimes there are overstated, doubtful or apparently false claims, and disturbing decisions. There is a feeling of being cornered with minimal prospects for change. How and what does the Church communicate when its predicament is frequently not ‘right and just?’ This article scrutinizes such powerlessness using the Magisterium of the Catholic Church on the truth of social communications. The Church insists on a proper understanding of truth and its uses. Despite the new adverse realities, the Church’s responses should communicate the truth in love. The article begins an analysis of various factors and recent changes causing the Church to find itself in a no-win situation. Next, several significant yet alternative perspectives are presented. Finally, there is an investigation of the magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church on the truth of social communications which offer a theological context to rethink the Church’s current circumstances.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/23753234.2022.2111315
Enrique Fuster
Abstract In this interview we will explore García-Noblejas’ thought on public communication, which is deeply marked by his interpretation of Aristotle’s Poetics and influenced by some contemporary thinkers. For García-Noblejas, communication is a service and a form of practical knowledge with five dimensions: ethics, politics, rhetoric, aesthetics, and poetics. Poetics is the most important of these, since its symbolic perspective of the representation of human actions allows us to deeply understand the narrative and dramatic texts typical of journalism, advertising, and propaganda, as well as written and audiovisual fiction. Poetics is the art of creating “possible worlds” in which the reader/spectator recognizes himself (or herself) and with which he dialogues starting from his own identity. García-Noblejas defends public communication that is based on the gift of self and looks to community fruitfulness. He also discusses some frequent pathologies in the media. Finally, he proposes his theory of the Second Navigation to discern the meaning of a text and explains why it is necessary to give a transcendent meaning to the Aristotelian concept of catharsis.
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