The Dictionary of Communication, published by Carocci, is the latest publishing effort of Msgr. Dario Viganò Edward, Professor Communication at the Pontifical Lateran University and president of the Foundation Board of the Show. This afternoon will be presented in Turin at the Fondazione Carlo Donat-Cattin, in the presence of Mgr. Guido Fiandino, vicar general of the archdiocese of Turin, and Mark Bonatti, director of communications for the Exposition of the Shroud. There speaks David Dionisi: The diverse and complex world of communication in its various disciplinary approaches, ranging from the history of communication to semiotics, sociology and psychology from ethics, theology and education media from economics to politics , enhanced with essays and information sheets. All of this is the Dictionary of Communication, Mgr. Edward Dario Viganò, published by Carocci. A teaching aid for college students, who in the course of his academic training, aim to approach the communication sciences, but also a valuable support and critical information for anyone working in the field of communication.
Bishop Viganò, because a dictionary of communication?
The communication is really a reality magma, from which are multiple approaches and each approach identifies a small part, a small jurisdiction with regard to the communication world. We wanted in some way offering the possibility of an orientation, a compass - we say - with respect to this complex, diverse, chaotic world of communication.
What is your opinion on the change so sudden, and at the same time radical, which occurred in recent years in the communications world?
There are many factors change as well as many aspects of change. I think, for example, first of all that which may be a reflection to the right to be well informed, which is more and more, somehow clouded by words simulacrali of this desire, self, be continued so full of tension and rivalry; And yet we imagine that a very significant aspect to think about might be the network. From this point of view I think we can do much, while in order to avoid confusion. Think, for example, of how it would be interesting to develop an ethical reflection on the network, and in particular the world of Second Life, where too often think the avatars as parallel lives. No, I certainly think that the avatar is a digital simulacrum of ourselves, but what exactly is the avatar does the extension of our personality. So it is certain that when the avatar is different from beating somebody beating someone in real life, but the aggressiveness that the avatar expresses exactly the aggression of which I load my avatar. So it's an extension of me. I believe that one of the challenges of adults who were not born with digital media, is precisely to overcome the idea that life online is simply a parallel life. It is not. It is an extension, is an interconnection. From this standpoint, I believe that digital technologies offer us a great opportunity to reflect, for example, about these challenges that are ethical challenges, even more strongly that those rules, even though it takes. But I believe that this could be an interesting scenario.
