Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Comm to Italy Blogging on Religion and Media Across Tuscany-Blog 1

Welcome to Religious Communication-Tuscany Version.  In the class we will specifically exploring how the Catholic Church uses and responds to different forms of media. As part of the class students will be keeping a blog to reflect on a number of different aspects of how religion and media intersect. Your first blogging assignment involves exploring how religious art, as an early form of media, express different religious beliefs and how Catholic church leaders have expressed positive and negative views about using art to capture and translate religious stories and values.

For your first blog post you are to select at least 2 images from two different locations that present a common form or representation of a religious, specifically Catholic focused beliefs.  Your blog should address the following question:

What message do your chosen images (2-3) communicate about religion and how the Catholic church uses media? 

Use concrete examples based on description of images and contexts in which they were found to back up claim. Also use ideas from presented from lectures 1 &2 to make your argument. Your Blog Posts should be 250+ words and posted along with the images you talk about on your own personal blogs.



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