Against resignation: the Church’s tasks in the media world
Against resignation: the Church’s tasks in the media world

Summary/Abstract: There are many perspectives from which we can study the media. This paper does so with an eyeon Catholic Social Teaching (CST) reflections, stressing that information and communication technologies(ICTs) are instruments for human flourishing, not goals in themselves. Moreover, we assert thatCST’s scope is not to indicate which instruments people should use for social development, but ratherto observe the culture we create when using ICTs; a culture that should respect the personal freedomand responsibility of each individual acting in society. While a vast number of published works oftenregard descriptive literature, we here focus mostly on authors looking at the conceptual power of socialchanges when making use of ICTs. The last group of authors usually refer to three fields of studies:economy, politics and technology. After considering their descriptions of ICT’s social impact in thesefields, and striving to understand not only the instruments but also the theories behind them, we offera final proposal. A proposal that regards the task that CST could have when studying ICTs: to stressthat human motivations appear before technological developments, and that human work is the bestmacro approach for developing humanity.

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