RT Article
T1 Discovering the digital authority: Twitter as reporting tool for papal activities
JF Online - Heidelberg journal of religions on the internet
VO 9
SP 63
OP 80
A1 Guzek, Damian
LA English
PB Heidelberg University Publishing
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1538062216
AB This article focuses on Pope Francis activities on Twitter and understanding the way of using this kind of social media by religious authorities. By examining Francis’s tweets from half a year of his pontificate (from September 13, 2013 to March 16, 2014), the author offers an in-depth overview of methods for studying the presence of religious authority in the digital world. In fact, he faces both the rapidly growing Heidi Campbell’s Religious Social-Shaping of Technology analytic frame and the grounded theory approach. Conducting the research the author shows that Pope Francis’s Twitter can be treated as a good example of ‘religion online’ based on specific strategy to extend religious authority from the real to the virtual world.
K1 Digital Authority
K1 Pope Francis
K1 Religion
K1 Tweets
K1 Twitter
DO 10.11588/rel.2015.0.26251