Daniel Arasa eBooks

Church communication: creative strategies for promoting cultural change. E-book. Formato EPUB Daniel Arasa   -  Edusc, 2016  - 

Every true culture is also a creative culture, which generates ideas that can change the world. Throughout history and across cultures, Christianity, through its faith in a personal God (not in a mere organizer of the world), has known how to value human reason and the potentialities inherent in human nature. The fact that man can establish a personal relationship with God has always produced revolutionary changes in culture and in social life. Men from every walk of life are henceforth directed towards the path of the good, the true, and the beautiful. It’s a path found today in the media, an essential element of each of our lives and a privileged path to take. The Ninth Professional Seminar on the Communication Offices of the Church entitled, “Church Communication: Creative Strategies for Promoting Culture Change”, aims to offer positive experiences and criteria for debating and communicating the faith in the public sphere. When the Gospel is incarnated into lifestyles, ideas, and cultures, it possesses a creative force that is capable of changing the world. The challenge for the Church communicator is to shed light upon the allure of this innovative force in the various folds of a secular and plural society. “The profession of communicators and media technology allow us to reach very far and deep inside the human heart, where important decisions are made (...). Similar to the creative word of God, communicators- with a single word- can create or recreate an image of reality. Plus, modern technology globalizes and stimulates the power of speech. The fascinating and powerful action and influence of the media in society and culture is evidence. They can help you grow or disorient. They can recreate many things, informing us about the reality to help us in the discernment of our options and decisions; or instead, they can create virtual simulations, fantasies and fiction that move us toward viable options. (...) The media are now the main tools for the creation of Culture” (J.M. Bergoglio).

Church communication: creative strategies for promoting cultural change. E-book. Formato PDF Daniel Arasa   -  Edusc, 2016  - 

Every true culture is also a creative culture, which generates ideas that can change the world. Throughout history and across cultures, Christianity, through its faith in a personal God (not in a mere organizer of the world), has known how to value human reason and the potentialities inherent in human nature. The fact that man can establish a personal relationship with God has always produced revolutionary changes in culture and in social life. Men from every walk of life are henceforth directed towards the path of the good, the true, and the beautiful. It’s a path found today in the media, an essential element of each of our lives and a privileged path to take. The Ninth Professional Seminar on the Communication Offices of the Church entitled, “Church Communication: Creative Strategies for Promoting Culture Change”, aims to offer positive experiences and criteria for debating and communicating the faith in the public sphere. When the Gospel is incarnated into lifestyles, ideas, and cultures, it possesses a creative force that is capable of changing the world. The challenge for the Church communicator is to shed light upon the allure of this innovative force in the various folds of a secular and plural society. “The profession of communicators and media technology allow us to reach very far and deep inside the human heart, where important decisions are made (...). Similar to the creative word of God, communicators- with a single word- can create or recreate an image of reality. Plus, modern technology globalizes and stimulates the power of speech. The fascinating and powerful action and influence of the media in society and culture is evidence. They can help you grow or disorient. They can recreate many things, informing us about the reality to help us in the discernment of our options and decisions; or instead, they can create virtual simulations, fantasies and fiction that move us toward viable options. (...) The media are now the main tools for the creation of Culture” (J.M. Bergoglio).

Church Communications Through Diocesan Websites: A Model of Analysis. E-book. Formato PDF Daniel Arasa   -  Edusc, 2015  - 

Daniel Arasa was born in Barcelona (Spain), on February 11, 1971. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism (1994) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, a M.A. in Television and Radio (2001) from the Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, TX, and a Ph.D in Social Institutional Communications (2007) by the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy. He worked from 1994 to 1997 as a journalist in the political, social and local sections of Europa Press news agency (Spain). Currently, he is the coordinator of studies at the School of Institutional Communications of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, in Rome, where he started teaching in 2001. His main research interest is online religious communication, particularly the Internet communication of Catholic institutions. While the Church continues to be an essential object of the mass media’s attention, it is in a position to become a more active subject of communication to spread her message through the Internet. This book offers a practical analysis of what Catholic dioceses’ websites say and how they are managed. It does not intend to propose the ideal diocesan website, but to offer useful instruments to analyze existing websites and, from this analysis, to propose some guidelines for the planning, creation and management of diocesan or other Church websites. The websites selected for the study were from nine major Catholic dioceses around the world: Bogotá (Colombia), Johannesburg (South Africa), Los Angeles (USA), Madrid (Spain), Manila (Philippines), Melbourne (Australia), Mexico City (Mexico), Milan (Italy) and São Paulo (Brazil). The analysis of the content and services of Catholic diocesan websites, combined with in-depth interviews with the webmasters and journalists who cover religion, provides valuable insights into the use of diocesan websites as instruments for the Church’s institutional communications. This research is of particular interest to two communities: first, the academic community dedicated to electronic communication and institutional communications; second, the Church’s leaders and, in general, all those responsible for communications in dioceses and other Church institutions, from bishops to media officers.