The Relationship Between Media And Societal Institutions...

Mediatisation is a relatively new and complicated concept useful for discussing the relationship between media and societal institutions including politics, and religion. This essay will examine the way in which the Christian Faith has interacted with media in the past and how the process of Mediatisation has influenced it at present by looking at various implications. Firstly, this essay will define Mediatisation and examine a brief history of the relationship between media culture and religion, secondly, it will argue how religious authority and education have been reconstructed due to Mediatisation. Thirdly it will discuss the role of ‘religious’ individuals in a mediatised world and the new form of religiosity that only a process of Mediatisation could create. Finally, this essay will look to Mediatisation and its relationship to secularisation parallel. Overall, this essay will argue that while religion, in the past has used media as a tool to communicate particula r values and aid in the process of identity construction and framing, now the media, through the process of Mediatisation has become its own, autonomous institution with the power to reframe religious positions and ideas creating a new form of religiosity influenced primarily by media rather than religious institutions. As Mediatisation is key to this essay, it is important to define the concept in order to elaborate on its implications on religious institutions. Mediatisation is a new theoreticalShow MoreRelatedEssay on what is the sociological perspective (imagination)691 Words   |  3 Pagesdefines perspective as â€Å"the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance†. Having a sociological perspective means that you view all of societies components and their relationship to the individual. First I will discuss how individuals are socialized. 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