The Media Literacy Model

09Dec09

This media literacy model will help us to to give more effort than simply staying with the default model. but this effort will be worth it because it will help us to gain much more control over our exposure habits and the path meaning is constructed in our everyday lives.

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Defining Media Literacy

09Dec09

Defining Media Literacy is a great help for all of us who has a great knowledge on social communication. This because in defining media literacy will help us pay attention on the messages that triggers our attention  and to interpret the messages from the media literacy.

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Pastortal Instruction “Aestatis Novae” on social Communication on the Twentieth Anniversary of Communio et Progressio

08Dec09

Upon reading this pastoral instruction; the concern that I found here, basically concerned about the cultural dimensions what is now taking place. Precisely as powerful tools of the globalization process, the new information technology and the internet transmit and help still a set of cultural values, ways of thinking about social relationship, family, religion, and human condition, whose novelty and glamor can challenge and; overwhelm traditional cultures.

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Images of God

01Dec09

The article the images of God, is dealing to the popular culture on how they look and go beyond to the different point of view of looking the existence of God. Cultures have a great influenced to those who belong to their teachings, especially in looking God in different perspectives. The concept that we have seen in the article “images of God,” is precisely the idea that he post modern way of presenting God. Understanding God is to go out to the traditional way of looking God, we to understand God and look God in our present time, this is thoroughly by using post modern language. Some cannot deny the fact that they are really influenced by their cultures especially by their practices and doctrine etc.

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Concerning others

01Dec09

As I find myself by His infinite grace more disposed to humble myself on all points rather that defend myself on a few and as I think it will be to His greater glory, I have decided to make the most of the opportunity. The greatest experience that I had here in this formation is basically our concern in each one of us. That we lived in one community, stand together, walk together, praise together, work together, and pray together for the better glory of our lord Jesus Christ.

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The Role of Language in the Object Transcendence

01Dec09

The main concern of David Vessey on his article was the given title itself. “The role of language in the object of transcendence” that according to him, when we are dealing of what is transcendence our awareness of object must be earthly place to lay on the limits of our common experienced. David Vessey opens the arguments dealing with Hans-George Gadamer in explaining our immediate sensory experience of object. In this article the author giver us two main ways of his concerns, in reaching out the problem of the title itself. The first main concern of David Vessey was Gadamer in his idea on the nature of perception that has been come to a center theme from the beginning of phenomenology, and the nature of our awareness of objects as transcendent has been a central theme of the nature of perception. The problem now here is the disagreement among phenomenologist. Because, Gadamer, “inherit from classical Phenomenology the view that the perception is directly of the objects of perceptions is not mediated through ideas or representations; rather “consciousness is.”

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Pornography and Violence in the Communications Media: A Pastoral Response

01Dec09

As I read the article on the pontifical council for social communications, it leads me to go beyond to the basic virtue of solidarity, which is the measure of the technological service of the common good. It is common good that supplies the context for considering the ethical question: are the media being used for good or evil?

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Communio et Progressio

24Nov09

As I ponder on the article “communio et progressio” I was enlightened by the proper use of the internet as means of social communication that need to be informed and guided as well, especially by the resolute commitment to the practice of solidarity in the service of the common good, within and among the whole world.

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Guide to the training of Future priests concerning the Instruments of Social Communication

16Nov09

I really reminded by the use of social communication especially when Vatican II came out with the decree on the means of social communication. Which they present it as Inter mirifica means “among the wonderful” technologies that modern people of talent have seen with God’s amazing grace.

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Inter Mirifica

09Nov09

Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ; he used the means of preaching to his apostles and believers during his time. In order to spread the kingdom of God, this means of social communication which is preaching was very limited to some places only to human resources. Which are precisely the amiability, mental capacity or human standard of reaching human level of communication to others. But social communication now a day has a wide coverage, which could cater the whole Christendom.

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