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Faith in the net: towards the creation of digital networks of religious acknowledgement and recognition
Foi dans le réseau: vers la création de réseaux numériques de reconnaissance religieuse
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Abstract Undoubtedly, the technological revolution in information and communications causing major changes in citizens' social interactions. The new reticular rationality offers the possibility of shaping, developing, and strengthening social networks and virtual communities. All of them facilitate the creat... view more
Undoubtedly, the technological revolution in information and communications causing major changes in citizens' social interactions. The new reticular rationality offers the possibility of shaping, developing, and strengthening social networks and virtual communities. All of them facilitate the creation of new interactive spaces, new social collectives promoting citizenship and that, from different social fields and levels of experience, articulate and streamline processes of production, circulation and appropriation of new symbolic products. Such products contribute not only to generating new sources of knowledge but, above all, to strengthening processes of citizen interaction. In such processes, the field of media, religiosities and socio-cultural processes are strategically intertwined. In this context, experiences of civic religiosity find in the potential generated by the global network, new possibilities of interaction and religious recognition. Also new forms and spaces to share plural options of faith and socio-religious practices that make sense of the existence of cybernauts. This text is divided into three parts: First, critically contextualizes the global phenomenon of social networks. Second, it makes an approximation to some experiences of digital networks of religious recognition from Latin America. Finally, raises some questions that arise from such virtual practices.... view less
Keywords
cognition; practice; Internet; social network; interaction; sociocultural development; digitalization; religion; media
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Sociology of Religion
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 93-111
Journal
ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 10 (2017) 2
Issue topic
Mediatization of religion and power
ISSN
1775-352X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed