Keywords
mass-media religion
social semiosis
discursive strategies
socio-symbolic practices
recognition
tele-faithful-viewers
socio-cultural mediation
media processes
reading contracts
communication
television
religiosity. mediations
media
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Abstract
In this text, the author presents a report of his doctoral research in social communication titled “Tele-faith: Mass-media Religion: Strategies for the Experiencing of Religious Meaning by Tele-faithful Viewers of the Rede Vida Television Network in Porto Alegre, R.S., Brazil”. The research focuses and analyzes the contemporary phenomenon of mass-media religion in Brazilian Catholic television, from the theoretical perspective of the social semiosis of media influence through discursive strategies of recognition and socio symbolic practices of religious meanings, as developed by tele-faithful viewers of devotional and preaching programs broadcast by Rede Vida Television Network in Porto Alegre, RS (Brazil). This text briefly presents the research in five sequential parts: context and problems; objective and central questions; approach and theoretical discussion; options and methodological development; and finally, results and prospective conclusions.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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