Presentation
From Vatican Radio to Inter Mirifica and Beyond - 20th Century Popes on [Im]media.pdf
Lovelette Interdisciplinary Series
(2019)
Abstract
[Im]mediacy, a meaningful encounter or contact where there is no space between participants, is a central concept in understanding how 20th century Popes have learned to communicate. The 20th century was characterized by extensive growth of mass media technologies. Modern papal approaches to communication developed from an instrumental to an [im]mediate contact orientation. Where media were originally seen as important tools for sending messages, John Paul II made interpersonal contact the focal point of papal communication via his nearly continuous world tour. The tour itself is mass mediated for the world to see, and each pastoral event is an immediate personal encounter between the Pope and a people.
Keywords
- Inter Mirifica,
- Paul VI,
- John Paul II,
- Vatican Radio,
- Immedia,
- Contact,
- Papal Communication,
- Vatican Media,
- Incarnational Rhetoric
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 25, 2019
Location
Seton Hall University
Citation Information
Jon P. Radwan and Dennis Mahon. "From Vatican Radio to Inter Mirifica and Beyond - 20th Century Popes on [Im]media.pdf" Lovelette Interdisciplinary Series (2019) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jon_radwan/29/
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