Media and technological processes: Perspectives for a religious life from digital environments

Abstract

The field of communication mobilizes actors with languages and discourses, shaping practices of interaction via media products. Digital media and the production of meaning in the technical-communicational relationship are problematized, with the convergences not only of audiences but also of the means that produce mediatization. In this context, media and technological processes are prominent in the production of imaginaries, meanings, and connections, enabling the reconstruction of environments based on religious practices. The interconnections between production and consumption processes produce the mediatization of society in its various segments, including the religious factor embedded in culture. With the emergence of possibilities arising from technological means, a new conceptual construct was established in interactions in the field of religion involving representatives of institutions and their adherents. This reflection is reflected from the perspective of communication, aiming to construct a perspective for a religious life based on technological and mediatized processes.