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television image from television's prehistory begins, strictly speaking, the most fundamental technical breakthroughs that made possible the transmission distance of the moving image.
was in July 1928 from the experimental station W3XK of Washington, the U.S. began Jenkins primarily to transmit scanned images of films with some regularity and with a definition of 48 lines. And since the 50's, television has become the communication medium par excellence.
television was not born as a response to any immediate need and unavoidable. When the man proposed to transmit images to remote, wired or wireless, I thought of a massive and indiscriminate reception, but in a public service that would allow only the verification of documents, send drawings or pictures necessary for technical work or burocráticos.Pero simplifying paperwork, once created the necessary technical support for transmission moving images, some scientists realized that television could repeat the success of the radio years ago.
On television and in cinema is a combination of the image with the word. The nature of this combination of messages is different from that given printed material. In any case, it was always a combination within the meaning of complementarity between image and word. Film and television this balance is upset in favor of a growing dominance or prominence of the image. The language is a simple factor of the image. We are, with a new instrument of communication that we know to understand the messages through he is us.
language television, the image, figurative language, but not conceptual. Appeals to the senses, but is not there a close relationship with high mental activity. Contrary to what happens with verbal language.
television image from television's prehistory begins, strictly speaking, the most fundamental technical breakthroughs that made possible the transmission distance of the moving image.
was in July 1928 from the experimental station W3XK of Washington, the U.S. began Jenkins primarily to transmit scanned images of films with some regularity and with a definition of 48 lines. And since the 50's, television has become the communication medium par excellence.
television was not born as a response to any immediate need and unavoidable. When the man proposed to transmit images to remote, wired or wireless, I thought of a massive and indiscriminate reception, but in a public service that would allow only the verification of documents, send drawings or pictures necessary for technical work or burocráticos.Pero simplifying paperwork, once created the necessary technical support for transmission moving images, some scientists realized that television could repeat the success of the radio years ago.
On television and in cinema is a combination of the image with the word. The nature of this combination of messages is different from that given printed material. In any case, it was always a combination within the meaning of complementarity between image and word. Film and television this balance is upset in favor of a growing dominance or prominence of the image. The language is a simple factor of the image. We are, with a new instrument of communication that we know to understand the messages through he is us.
language television, the image, figurative language, but not conceptual. Appeals to the senses, but is not there a close relationship with high mental activity. Contrary to what happens with verbal language.
The image culture
The changing times we are experiencing is framed in a culture where the role of the image has taken piping surprising, to be called "image culture" at present, given in a point, so looking through a screen, and from there learn, understand, solve and lived reality.
Ahead of its time, Paul VI warned in his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi: "We know the ideas of many psychologists and sociologists who say that modern man has passed beyond the civilization of the word, ineffective and useless these days, today he lives in the civilization of the image. (...) (But all this) should not diminish the enduring value of the word, not to lose confidence in it. The word remains ever relevant, especially when accompanied by the power of God "(n.42).
We can not oppose the image of the word, because in fact the two are harmonized in a new discourse that points to the emotional.
addition, the image is itself a very high value that we recognize. Ever since God became man in Christ, the image may be speaker of both the Incarnation and the Transcendence of God. Christ is "the visible image of the invisible God" (Col 1.15).
a theology of communication has to take into account this dimension that helps to assess the visual from the divine perspective and deepen the depth of expression captured by the image visible. Evangelization think committed a serious analysis of the culture and take their values \u200b\u200bto coat the wisdom of God that gives the true sense of the things that man lives, is amazed, enjoy, create or perfect. The denunciation of evil, this century, it encourages a commitment to transformation of reality, from God and His Truth.
By being aware of visual stimuli of television, which are more effective than visual and auditory alone, we find in them an important tool when communicating the Gospel. We can not let this sign of Providence, and use this means in our power, to explain to people today the message of the Gospel is always new.
Television, which enters the home, daily life becomes part of the cluster of habits of any man of our time, is a more than fair to make the Word of God reaches the hearts of viewers and give reasons for their existence. Faced with a content able to satisfy the craving that man has always truth, goodness and beauty, happiness and sense, television is an ideal instrument for making a call humanizing and liberating.
is no doubt that television is an effective source in creating and shaping attitudes in children and young people especially at a young age, are under their influence without having other information. It uses it to satisfy needs of distraction, reduce tension and as a means to obtain information. A full schedule of values, from the creative and ingenious, can entertain educating and reporting. This is the challenge we face Catholic communicators to media that we use with greater confidence, less prejudiced, more presence and less tyranny. One way that God provides us to make their voices heard and show your face to a world thirsty for it vague.
No one can consider itself immune to the degrading effects of pornography and violence or safe from erosion caused by those acting under their influence. Children and youth are particularly vulnerable and likely to be victims. Pornography and sadistic violence despised sexuality, corrode human relationships, exploit individuals -Especially women and children, undermine marriage and family life, foster antisocial attitudes and weaken the moral fiber of society.
We do need to purify our gaze. The image culture has saturated our vision. There's nothing new or unknown to watch. Everything is exposed to view unfiltered and without reservations, without shame and without limit. We naively to look at everything not hurt us, and yet avoid many spiritual ills if we knew to look away in time. Not everything we see makes us okay. Moreover, if we note that the visual saturation that produces our culture is saturated images of violence: the violence of pornography and the same sadistic violence and disturb us go blind. Look but not see. That is when the eye becomes shallow and shallow, up to not feel the full meaning of things, events, ourselves and others. The reality seems to be noticed only by the small screen, and only fragments of reality induced by special interests, which do not articulate all the springs that form the complex reality we live.
The changing times we are experiencing is framed in a culture where the role of the image has taken piping surprising, to be called "image culture" at present, given in a point, so looking through a screen, and from there learn, understand, solve and lived reality.
Ahead of its time, Paul VI warned in his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi: "We know the ideas of many psychologists and sociologists who say that modern man has passed beyond the civilization of the word, ineffective and useless these days, today he lives in the civilization of the image. (...) (But all this) should not diminish the enduring value of the word, not to lose confidence in it. The word remains ever relevant, especially when accompanied by the power of God "(n.42).
We can not oppose the image of the word, because in fact the two are harmonized in a new discourse that points to the emotional.
addition, the image is itself a very high value that we recognize. Ever since God became man in Christ, the image may be speaker of both the Incarnation and the Transcendence of God. Christ is "the visible image of the invisible God" (Col 1.15).
a theology of communication has to take into account this dimension that helps to assess the visual from the divine perspective and deepen the depth of expression captured by the image visible. Evangelization think committed a serious analysis of the culture and take their values \u200b\u200bto coat the wisdom of God that gives the true sense of the things that man lives, is amazed, enjoy, create or perfect. The denunciation of evil, this century, it encourages a commitment to transformation of reality, from God and His Truth.
By being aware of visual stimuli of television, which are more effective than visual and auditory alone, we find in them an important tool when communicating the Gospel. We can not let this sign of Providence, and use this means in our power, to explain to people today the message of the Gospel is always new.
Television, which enters the home, daily life becomes part of the cluster of habits of any man of our time, is a more than fair to make the Word of God reaches the hearts of viewers and give reasons for their existence. Faced with a content able to satisfy the craving that man has always truth, goodness and beauty, happiness and sense, television is an ideal instrument for making a call humanizing and liberating.
is no doubt that television is an effective source in creating and shaping attitudes in children and young people especially at a young age, are under their influence without having other information. It uses it to satisfy needs of distraction, reduce tension and as a means to obtain information. A full schedule of values, from the creative and ingenious, can entertain educating and reporting. This is the challenge we face Catholic communicators to media that we use with greater confidence, less prejudiced, more presence and less tyranny. One way that God provides us to make their voices heard and show your face to a world thirsty for it vague.
No one can consider itself immune to the degrading effects of pornography and violence or safe from erosion caused by those acting under their influence. Children and youth are particularly vulnerable and likely to be victims. Pornography and sadistic violence despised sexuality, corrode human relationships, exploit individuals -Especially women and children, undermine marriage and family life, foster antisocial attitudes and weaken the moral fiber of society.
We do need to purify our gaze. The image culture has saturated our vision. There's nothing new or unknown to watch. Everything is exposed to view unfiltered and without reservations, without shame and without limit. We naively to look at everything not hurt us, and yet avoid many spiritual ills if we knew to look away in time. Not everything we see makes us okay. Moreover, if we note that the visual saturation that produces our culture is saturated images of violence: the violence of pornography and the same sadistic violence and disturb us go blind. Look but not see. That is when the eye becomes shallow and shallow, up to not feel the full meaning of things, events, ourselves and others. The reality seems to be noticed only by the small screen, and only fragments of reality induced by special interests, which do not articulate all the springs that form the complex reality we live.
images and evangelism
is this reality and this culture that we have to evangelize. But evangelism does not begin with us. Therefore, we must learn from the rich tradition of the Church, over the centuries has been known to use elements of the culture to proclaim the Gospel.
The images were part of evangelization, and in the early Christian communities, who represented the Saviour of the world with images of the Good Shepherd. Later appear the Paschal Lamb and other icons representing the life of Christ. The images have been provided a means to publicize and spread the faith in Christ and the veneration and love for the Blessed Virgin and the Saints. Witness to this are the catacombs where you can still images taken by the early Christians. These images bear witness to their faith and the use of images. Today the image
has reached a surprising sophistication through the media. Then we must recognize that we have higher quality items that our ancestors to evangelize. Then we can not waste this blessed time, and these effective tools at our disposal. And the time is now. Today, as in the early days of the Christian era, the image must be a vehicle of transmission of faith and helps the knowledge of the truth of God. Before Jesus
images often represented idols, were used for idolatry. In the fullness of time, the true God would become incarnate and thus have a human image. Jesus Christ is the visible image of the Father.
tells us the Catechism: "As the Word became flesh by assuming a true humanity, the body of Christ was limited (cf. cc. Lateran in 649: DS 504). So you can" paint "the human face of Jesus ( Ga 3.2). In the Seventh Ecumenical Council (CC of Nicea II, in 787: DS 600-603) the Church recognized the legitimate representation in sacred images "(476).
It seems that the third-century Christian church, albeit in a very early stage, using the iconography with a catechetical purpose to outline the true path that can lead to eternal bliss.
In a hypothetical second stage, the Church, through the iconography emphasizes the divine protection and sharing in the Eucharist as a way to ensure the Christian's salvation. Here come full paradigms of Salvation through the same growth for the faithful assume all a message of hope.
Finally, through the iconography of further reiterates that, thanks to the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, man can attain eternal bliss.
Today in the culture of the image, these elements give us strength and light to take the new evangelization creatively put at the service of the Gospel of persuasive, attractive and appealing visual image from the infinite multiplicity of forms and colors that technology today enables us and proposes.
The language of beauty
course not just use the means at our disposal. We use them well. The media, for example, require that conveys an aesthetic beauty. The Church has always been a promoter of real art. Pope John Paul II has repeatedly expressed his invitation to return to art in the context of faith, and spoke of a "nostalgia for the beauty" in men today. Therefore, beauty is not a superfluous or peripheral aspect of life. The beauty comes from God and leads us to God.
The youth of today feel a special attraction to beauty, image is, be it music or both. Helps to bring the beautiful people, and is a feature of the celebration and festivity. It is harmony, proportion, order. Everything beautiful is sharing the beauty of God. Therefore, the contemplation of beauty leads us to admire God, author and model of all beauty. The symbolism and language of forms and harmonious colors opens us to higher values, transcendent. The aesthetic life gives a more human and hopeful. "This world we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, is he who sees the joy in the hearts of men, is that precious fruit which resists erosion of time, which unites generations and makes them in admiration "(The message from the Council to the artists).
We must recover in evangelizing the value of aesthetics in the service of beauty as the Absolute communication. Especially this is a challenge to a world where concerns about the appearance and the obsession with the figure, are topics that today many young people move to pursue the image of advertising models, far from the model it is possible arrive. They are the media which has greatly helped create a false image of beauty today, a style that does not correspond to reality.
Current fees Beauty, require unrealistic physical standards, which often help to create insecurity and psychological problems in young people, such as anorexia and bulimia.
Catholic communicators must point to an aesthetic that, while respecting the style of each entity and the key cultural characteristics of each country or region, also point to the supernatural, where reality is seen through the eyes of hope. It's time to push our creativity to achieve a real new aesthetic, imbued human and Christian values.
We must be able to translate the rich content of faith to languages \u200b\u200bsuch as multimedia clips, interactive video games and humanizing, stories, aid educational and interactive pages and more. All this, of course, but the message is leaner, compromising the deposit of faith. True evangelism enriches cultures, helping them to overcome weak points or even inhuman in them, and communicating to their legitimate values \u200b\u200bthe fullness of Christ. (Cf. CT 53).
is this reality and this culture that we have to evangelize. But evangelism does not begin with us. Therefore, we must learn from the rich tradition of the Church, over the centuries has been known to use elements of the culture to proclaim the Gospel.
The images were part of evangelization, and in the early Christian communities, who represented the Saviour of the world with images of the Good Shepherd. Later appear the Paschal Lamb and other icons representing the life of Christ. The images have been provided a means to publicize and spread the faith in Christ and the veneration and love for the Blessed Virgin and the Saints. Witness to this are the catacombs where you can still images taken by the early Christians. These images bear witness to their faith and the use of images. Today the image
has reached a surprising sophistication through the media. Then we must recognize that we have higher quality items that our ancestors to evangelize. Then we can not waste this blessed time, and these effective tools at our disposal. And the time is now. Today, as in the early days of the Christian era, the image must be a vehicle of transmission of faith and helps the knowledge of the truth of God. Before Jesus
images often represented idols, were used for idolatry. In the fullness of time, the true God would become incarnate and thus have a human image. Jesus Christ is the visible image of the Father.
tells us the Catechism: "As the Word became flesh by assuming a true humanity, the body of Christ was limited (cf. cc. Lateran in 649: DS 504). So you can" paint "the human face of Jesus ( Ga 3.2). In the Seventh Ecumenical Council (CC of Nicea II, in 787: DS 600-603) the Church recognized the legitimate representation in sacred images "(476).
It seems that the third-century Christian church, albeit in a very early stage, using the iconography with a catechetical purpose to outline the true path that can lead to eternal bliss.
In a hypothetical second stage, the Church, through the iconography emphasizes the divine protection and sharing in the Eucharist as a way to ensure the Christian's salvation. Here come full paradigms of Salvation through the same growth for the faithful assume all a message of hope.
Finally, through the iconography of further reiterates that, thanks to the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, man can attain eternal bliss.
Today in the culture of the image, these elements give us strength and light to take the new evangelization creatively put at the service of the Gospel of persuasive, attractive and appealing visual image from the infinite multiplicity of forms and colors that technology today enables us and proposes.
The language of beauty
course not just use the means at our disposal. We use them well. The media, for example, require that conveys an aesthetic beauty. The Church has always been a promoter of real art. Pope John Paul II has repeatedly expressed his invitation to return to art in the context of faith, and spoke of a "nostalgia for the beauty" in men today. Therefore, beauty is not a superfluous or peripheral aspect of life. The beauty comes from God and leads us to God.
The youth of today feel a special attraction to beauty, image is, be it music or both. Helps to bring the beautiful people, and is a feature of the celebration and festivity. It is harmony, proportion, order. Everything beautiful is sharing the beauty of God. Therefore, the contemplation of beauty leads us to admire God, author and model of all beauty. The symbolism and language of forms and harmonious colors opens us to higher values, transcendent. The aesthetic life gives a more human and hopeful. "This world we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, is he who sees the joy in the hearts of men, is that precious fruit which resists erosion of time, which unites generations and makes them in admiration "(The message from the Council to the artists).
We must recover in evangelizing the value of aesthetics in the service of beauty as the Absolute communication. Especially this is a challenge to a world where concerns about the appearance and the obsession with the figure, are topics that today many young people move to pursue the image of advertising models, far from the model it is possible arrive. They are the media which has greatly helped create a false image of beauty today, a style that does not correspond to reality.
Current fees Beauty, require unrealistic physical standards, which often help to create insecurity and psychological problems in young people, such as anorexia and bulimia.
Catholic communicators must point to an aesthetic that, while respecting the style of each entity and the key cultural characteristics of each country or region, also point to the supernatural, where reality is seen through the eyes of hope. It's time to push our creativity to achieve a real new aesthetic, imbued human and Christian values.
We must be able to translate the rich content of faith to languages \u200b\u200bsuch as multimedia clips, interactive video games and humanizing, stories, aid educational and interactive pages and more. All this, of course, but the message is leaner, compromising the deposit of faith. True evangelism enriches cultures, helping them to overcome weak points or even inhuman in them, and communicating to their legitimate values \u200b\u200bthe fullness of Christ. (Cf. CT 53).
Response image culture
is true that the predominant use of the images tends to cancel the development of language, and its consequence is to reduce or cancel the analytical capacity of abstract thought. Is the specified threshold and one of the issues presented as challenges of the culture of the image. Today we do not understand any process of training or skill transfer or messages without taking into account the visual. And is that the person is not only brain, and the image and sound points to various organs and faculties of human beings to make fuller communication and relationship between sender and receiver. But it is neither naive nor without risk. Often the process of learning from television, transmission of customs and fashions, is designed for professionals in the service of rating or sponsors, presenting things in a much more entertaining than the teacher or professor, and above all things, not demand anything or take exam later.
of these aspects have to be aware. It is up to authorities, institutions and above all parents take responsibility about controlling your children watch, promoting dialogue and exchange of views against indiscriminate cataract images that saturate the imagination and thought. You need an exercise of critical versus what you see, and analysis of the proposals that we receive through the media. So we can clarify their content, reinforce certain aspects of education, moral or social and counteract negative aspects.
The task of evangelization can not ignore the fact that part of the culture to which we communicate the Gospel. At the same time used the wealth of images to make known God's truth and lead the people today to meet with him, be formed in that capacity critical of everything that is received daily. It is a way to help the human growth of man and woman of this time they will live in a time of great technological advances along with a great crisis of values. Clarity and confusion seem to blend into a path without direction or guidance. As a whole, is thought by others, which exerts a powerful influence on behavior, a reality that is disabling in thinking and indulging the senses that the critical void in a relentless pursuit of the pleasurable. It ignores the good for the atmosphere. It is after easy setting aside the important.
Basically, every human heart is hungry for a look of love, who knows from the interior and response. Need to be watched by a face in front of our eyes and give us clarity in the way of truth fulfilling occurrence. Each heart is still looking to see a reality that transcends, which is reflected in the sanctity of an image that is a mirror. Follows the man walking time, longing for an eternal vision that makes you see and experience what really quench it, which remains beyond the projected time and what a joyous life of contemplation that, similar to that of lovers. That vision will
. And it is the hope where the wait, because the eye still did not see what God has prepared for those he loves. One day our eyes will see the face of the living God to embrace us in love, and with the tenderness of his gaze, and the brightness of his face, and most will not want to contemplate, and then, the anxieties and deepest Quereres human existence, will find in this timeless vision, wholeness that both were looking for while we wandered, among lights and shadows, as pilgrims on earth, looking for our sky .-
is true that the predominant use of the images tends to cancel the development of language, and its consequence is to reduce or cancel the analytical capacity of abstract thought. Is the specified threshold and one of the issues presented as challenges of the culture of the image. Today we do not understand any process of training or skill transfer or messages without taking into account the visual. And is that the person is not only brain, and the image and sound points to various organs and faculties of human beings to make fuller communication and relationship between sender and receiver. But it is neither naive nor without risk. Often the process of learning from television, transmission of customs and fashions, is designed for professionals in the service of rating or sponsors, presenting things in a much more entertaining than the teacher or professor, and above all things, not demand anything or take exam later.
of these aspects have to be aware. It is up to authorities, institutions and above all parents take responsibility about controlling your children watch, promoting dialogue and exchange of views against indiscriminate cataract images that saturate the imagination and thought. You need an exercise of critical versus what you see, and analysis of the proposals that we receive through the media. So we can clarify their content, reinforce certain aspects of education, moral or social and counteract negative aspects.
The task of evangelization can not ignore the fact that part of the culture to which we communicate the Gospel. At the same time used the wealth of images to make known God's truth and lead the people today to meet with him, be formed in that capacity critical of everything that is received daily. It is a way to help the human growth of man and woman of this time they will live in a time of great technological advances along with a great crisis of values. Clarity and confusion seem to blend into a path without direction or guidance. As a whole, is thought by others, which exerts a powerful influence on behavior, a reality that is disabling in thinking and indulging the senses that the critical void in a relentless pursuit of the pleasurable. It ignores the good for the atmosphere. It is after easy setting aside the important.
Basically, every human heart is hungry for a look of love, who knows from the interior and response. Need to be watched by a face in front of our eyes and give us clarity in the way of truth fulfilling occurrence. Each heart is still looking to see a reality that transcends, which is reflected in the sanctity of an image that is a mirror. Follows the man walking time, longing for an eternal vision that makes you see and experience what really quench it, which remains beyond the projected time and what a joyous life of contemplation that, similar to that of lovers. That vision will
. And it is the hope where the wait, because the eye still did not see what God has prepared for those he loves. One day our eyes will see the face of the living God to embrace us in love, and with the tenderness of his gaze, and the brightness of his face, and most will not want to contemplate, and then, the anxieties and deepest Quereres human existence, will find in this timeless vision, wholeness that both were looking for while we wandered, among lights and shadows, as pilgrims on earth, looking for our sky .-
Fr. Walter Moschetti
