The Problem of Online Media Values in the Context of Documents of the Church’s Magisterium Related to the Means of Communication Cover Image

Etinių principų raida komunikavimo priemonėms skirtuose Bažnyčios Magisteriumo dokumentuose
The Problem of Online Media Values in the Context of Documents of the Church’s Magisterium Related to the Means of Communication

Author(s): Rimas Skinkaitis, Valdas Kilpys
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Media studies, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Theology and Religion
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: the means of communication; new media; ethical principles; verbal aggression;

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the main documents of the Church’s Magisterium that discuss the means of communication, with a particular focus placed on online media. Based on the Decree Inter mirifica on the means of social communication and on Communio et Progressio, pastoral instruction of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, the attitude of the Church’s Magisterium towards analogue and digital means of communication is compared, while the main ethical principles of the media declared in the documents are sought to be elucidated and adapted for current challenges that arise during the development of digital technologies. A particular priority is given to the development of the Church’s perspective towards the means of communication. The paper emphasises the central notion that any new (digital) technologies that serve disse¬mination of information and propagation of the human good are received positively by the Church. However, in spite of this, personal responsibility of each user of digital technologies is increasing.

  • Issue Year: 98/2019
  • Issue No: 70
  • Page Range: 67-81
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Lithuanian