Notebook La Civiltà Cattolica, will give the opening address caritativo, que fue el pionero en el uso del cine of the SIGNIS World Congress 2014. Fr. Spadaro, para la educación y evangelización en la ciudad de drawing on his own experience as a “cyber” Cuenca. El padre Crespi fue el autor del primer theologian, blogger and cultural critic, will discuss documental cinematofráfico Los invencibles shuaras the theological, spiritual and ethical dimensions of del alto Amazonas filmado en 1926, y que registra the emerging digital culture and the role of the “los avatares del trabajo misionero salesiano con new generation. He is the author of Cyberteologia. comunidades indígenas del Oriente” de ese país Pensare il cristianesimo al tempo della rete andino. Fuente: catholictv.tv (Cybertheology: Thinking about Christianity in the Era Premio Martín Fierro Honorífico para el of the Web) 2012. He also edits his own influential Papa Francisco - La Asociación de Periodistas blog, Cyberteologia and recently he made de la Televisión y Radiofonía Argentina (APTRA) headlines around the world with his revealing otorgó el premio Martín Fierro Honorífico al interview with Pope Francis. He is a consultor to © Glenna Gordon programa Biblia, diálogo vigente, del Canal 21 del the Pontifical Council for Social Communications arzobispado de Buenos Aires, en el que participó and the Pontifical Council for Culture. As a el cardenal Bergoglio, desde finales del 2011 y literary critic and cultural commentator, he has durante todo el 2012. “Muchas gracias, se ve que published widely on the emerging digital culture. han trabajado bien ustedes para merecer este He graduated in Philosophy at the University of Wade C.L. Williams, Reportrice premio. Sepan mantener el nivel de trabajo que ha Messina, and completed his doctorate in theology d’investigation – La journaliste libérienne merecido este premio y que Dios los bendiga”, dijo at the Gregorian University in Rome, where he is Wade C.L. Williams a obtenu le Prix des médias Francisco desde el Vaticano, en un video grabado a visiting Professor. pour le développement du Ministère allemand cuando el director del canal, Julio Rimoldi, se lo de la Coopération et de la Deutsche Welle. Elle entregó en mano. Sus compañeros en el programa, Mathew Tombers at the SIGNIS world dirige le journal papier et le site d’information el Rabino Abraham Skorka y el protestante Congress in Rome. He is Head of New «FrontPageAfrica » situé à Monrovia. Malgré les Marcelo Figueroa recibieron el premio en el Teatro Media, Distribution, IT and Education for the US menaces, elle continue à dénoncer les injustices Colón y mostraron su gratitud. multifaith and multimedia organization, Odyssey sociales et à défendre les droits humains, en Networks. Tombers managed the launch of particulier les droits des femmes. L’article primé Odyssey’s websites and its mobile video app, Call dénonce les conditions de vie des femmes et on Faith, which now offers over 200 videos in 20 des jeunes filles au Liberia, qui vivent toujours specialized “channels”. ​In the past he has worked dans une extrême pauvreté alors que le pays est for a range of TV companies including Discovery aujourd’hui dirigé par une femme qui avait promis Channels in Australia and India. d’améliorer leur condition. Still a hard Life – une vie encore difficile raconte le combat de Mercy P. Carlos Crespi, el documental Padre Carlos Womeh contrainte de casser des pierres pour Fr. Antonio Spadaro : ‘Thinking about faith Crespi, un hombre de Dios, Apóstol de los pobres financer ses études. C’est l’un des rares moyens de in the Internet age’. Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, (47 min.) es el documental de Audiovisuales Don gagner quelques pièces dans un pays où le taux de editor-in-chief of the influential Jesuit magazine Bosco sobre la vida de este misionero salesiano chômage dépasse les 20%. 13th SIGNIS TV Seminar St Petersburg – 23-26 June 2014 Focus on Dialogue of Cultures in St Petersburg, Russia The 13th SIGNIS It will also allow for the discovery of a fascinating city. A cultural Seminar for TV excursion will lead the participants to experience the history, Producers and beauty, spirituality, hospitality, gastronomy and, for the bravest, the Broadcasters will white nights of St Petersburg. take place in St Petersburg, Russia. The Seminar will take place in Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra This first major Monastery, one of the main centres of the Orthodox faith in Russia, SIGNIS event in thanks to the support of the Orthodox Church. The Monastery Russia is organized also hosts the offices of Blagovest Media, international member of in collaboration SIGNIS, and our main partner in the organization of the Seminar. with Blagovest The participants will be accommodated at the Catholic Seminary Media and the St Petersburg International Film Festival of of St Petersburg, thanks to the collaboration of the Catholic Festivals, with the support of both the Orthodox and the Catholic Church in Russia. Churches. In a city of cultural diversity, symbolized by its iconic bridges, in an Orthodox country, the focus of the Seminar could The SIGNIS TV Seminars give the opportunity to Catholic only be on dialogue and tolerance. With the theme “Dialogue of television producers and leaders to showcase their television Churches, Dialogue of Cultures”, the Seminar wants to explore channels, newest productions or multimedia initiatives. how this dialogue of cultures and faiths can be achieved through audiovisual art and media. Registration for the Seminar will open on 10th March 2014 and close on 1st May 2014, to allow for the specific visa procedure required to travel This will be discussed in a round table organized in collaboration to Russia. The Seminar itself will take place from 23-26 June 2014. with the St Petersburg International Film Festival of Festivals. The Mark the dates! Go to www.catholictv.tv Festival will also offer the opportunity to the participants of the Seminar to experience this major cultural event in St Petersburg. 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A culture of peace is built on the images that express our hopes and aspirations of a society at peace with itself. In our ever changing multimedia culture the speed of technological development, the emphasis on commercial growth and the democratization of the media environment poses immense challenges to society’s images of itself. Our media environment is filled with images of aggressive competition, violence and xenophobic stereotypes. To meet these challenges it is not enough to propose philosophical assessments of society, “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the and ‘teach’ values. We need to work together to be the peace we hope to achieve to build minds of men that the defences of peace must images that drown out the icons of violence and re-shape our culture fashioned on new be constructed.” images of tolerance and peace. We must work across generational gaps creating the new images of a human culture of peace on our Globe. n UNESCO’s motto draws attention to the extent to which the creation of a culture of Cultures émergentes : peace will depend on the transformation of the mass media. The media are the mental les défis d’une nouvelle génération environment in which we live, even in the most remote parts of the world. Our imaginations « La paix n’est pas seulement un but lointain que nous nous fixons, are shaped, our attitudes formed, and our mais un moyen qui nous permet d’arriver à ce but » understanding influenced by the images from Martin Luther King Jr TV, radio, print, films, photographs, music, that we absorb daily. Les images de notre société que nous produisons, sont celles de la société que nous construisons. Une culture de paix est bâtie sur des images qui expriment nos espoirs Overwhelmingly, those images form a et aspirations dans une société meilleure, en paix avec elle-même.