269, Jun 2006
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In this issue: Peter Scally, Jesuit priest and webmaster, made persuasive assertions to a Christian Conference being held in London this month, that the internet is a powerful means of promoting prayer and spirituality. Many millions of visitors to prayer websites he manages, and huge volumes of MP3 prayer downloads, attest to this. Thirty eight internet communicators from across Europe met in the East End of London to examine the use of the internet by Christians for building community, for education and for mission. Also: Jim McDonnell talks about the challenge of media literacy in the information society; news from WACC seminars and 'Communication Rights and Wrongs.
Paper given by Dr Jim McDonnell, Director of Advocacy, SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communication) to the XI European Christian Internet Conference
London, June 14-18 2006
Peter Scally, Jesuit priest and webmaster, made persuasive assertions to a Christian Conference being held in London this week, that the internet is a powerful means of promoting prayer and spirituality. Many millions of visitors to prayer websites he manages, and huge volumes of MP3 prayer downloads, attest to this.
3WE’s unique monitoring project has, since 1989-90, regularly monitored the quantity of international programming on the UK's mainstream TV channels (BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, C4 and C5). These are the channels which have public service obligations and which together still retain 80% of all TV audiences.
This report examines the output of factual international programmes by the public service broadcasters during 2005, the year of Make Poverty History and the BBC’s Africa season. We have again commissioned Professor Steven Barnett of the University of Westminster to produce the research, with funding from DFID.
Previous research reports include ‘The World on the Box’, on 2003; and ‘Losing Reality’, on 2000-01.
Con el lanzamiento del libro “El desafío del Foro Social Mundial – un modo de ver”, del dirigente fundador Francisco Whitaker, se desarrolló el sábado 3 de junio en Santiago el segundo Foro Social de Santiago. Withaker señaló que el Foro Social Mundial que comenzó con 20 mil personas en Porto Alegre en 2003 y contó con 150 mil personas en Mumbai, India, el año pasado, es “un espacio democrático donde se escuchan propuestas para mejorar el destino del mundo y donde se mantienen en el tiempo aquellas que contienen verdad”.
Las iglesias son espacios privilegiados para el cambio social, cultural, de prácticas religiosas y la construcción de relaciones en equidad entre géneros, generaciones, etnias, "y son también desafiadas a cambiar sus mentalidades", dijo la rectora de la Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana (UBL), de Costa Rica, Violeta Rocha.
La irrupción de la religión carismática en toda la región demuestra que las iglesias tradicionales no lograron controlar el profundo impulso religioso de América Latina, sostuvo el jueves el misionero presbiteriano Dennis Smith en la Primera Cátedra de Pastoral y Comunicación de la Asociación Mundial para la Comunicación Cristiana (WACC por sus siglas en inglés) que se desarrolla en esta ciudad.
Nalaka Gunawardene
Source: SciDev.Net
Soon after the Asian tsunami left a trail of destruction around the Indian Ocean rim, a second wave hit — as local and foreign journalists arrived to begin intense and incessant coverage of the unfolding humanitarian crisis. In a few dreadful hours, the tsunami killed, injured or otherwise shattered the lives of millions. The 'media tsunami' that followed turned the plight of affected people into a global information circus. The rights to privacy and dignity of thousands of people were repeatedly violated.