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Tonight: Cyberethics workshop
Join is for our first CiD presentation: Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary and CiD member will present Cyberethics, on the Relationships we Pursue in Cyberspace.
More Catholics embrace online social networking
In this Our Sunday Visitor article, CiD member Dr. Sebstian Mahfood offers netiquette tips for Catholics involved in social networking:
- Remember the human. That sounds basic, but is often forgotten. “All technologies are extensions of the persons who use them,” Mahfood told OSV. “Behind every communication is a real human person who is not only an individual substance of a rational nature, but is also a being created in the image and likeness of Christ.”
- Keep Christ at the center of any social network that is developed. Mahfood explained: “The temptation exists in our social interactions to bracket Christ when we perceive a good or a value that we would like to pursue in the satisfaction of our own desires. The advice is traditional, but meaningful for online interactions — never do anything or say anything online that you cannot share with the Eucharist.”
- Begin all real-time chats with prayer “for the good of the community gathered and the participation of the Holy Spirit,” he continued.
- Apply established “netiquette” rules to the social networks that are created. “People who find themselves the hosts of very large social networking sites will not only want to follow established standards but promote them actively as a form of evangelization and prayer,” Mahfood said.
For those in the St. Louis area, Dr. Mahfood will address CYBERETHICS:
Our Relationships in Cyberspace on Thursday, February 19, 2009.
Cyberethics for Seminarians
In this series of videos Dr. Sebastian Mahfood addresses the subject of cyberethics for seminarians.
CYBERETHICS: Our Relationships in Cyberspace
Dr. Sebastian Mahfood,
Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies,
Kenrick-Glennon Seminary
CYBERETHICS:
Our Relationships in Cyberspace
Thursday, February 19, 2009, 7-8 pm
Main Auditorium, Cardinal Rigali Center
20 Archbishop May Drive, Shrewsbury, MO 63119
$5 suggested donation — RSVP
Cyberbullying and Other Ethical Excesses in Cyberspace
ST. LOUIS, MO — Last Summer, Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill outlawing cyberbullying. The action followed the suicide death, two years earlier, of a 13-year-old Missouri girl jilted by an imaginary, online boyfriend created by a neighbor.
On Thursday, February 19th, at the Cardinal Rigali Center in St. Louis, Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, associate professor of intercultural studies at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, will present a lecture on “Our Relationships in Cyberspace.” Dr. Mahfood is an authority on “cyberethics,” the application of moral standards to the internet and other virtual reality arenas. Mahfood contends that technology is an extension of our selves and that we need to remember that we are interacting with real persons when we engage them via websites, blogs, videos, and other online forums. Cyberbullying is one of several specific cases he will address.
In his presentation, and the question-and-answer session to follow, Dr. Mahfood will also discuss internet courtesy or “netiquette,” internet slander, anonymous blogging, plagiarism in cyberspace, software piracy, humorous and harmful hoaxes, etc.
Dr. Mahfood is a founding member of Catholic Internet Developers (CiD), a networking and support group for St. Louis-area writers, artists, and programmers providing content for the internet.
To schedule an interview with Dr. Mahfood, please contact: Bob Duplantier, Chairman
Catholic Internet Developers
Pope to Journalists: Live Your Faith
Benedict XVI is inviting Catholic journalists to bear witness to their faith by the life they lead. — Zenit.org
Summary of the Holy Father’s message to the president of the Catholic Union of the Italian Press.
Media Impact on Children
Media can be a positive influence in the lives of children and adolescents, but care is needed to avoid the negative side effects. This is the conclusion of a series of 10 short papers just released by the journal Children and Electronic Media. — Zenit.org
Zenit summarizes the research contained in these papers and concludes that “parents have to take responsibility for helping their children develop healthy media habits.”
New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship
Pope Asks Young Catholics to Use Technology to Share Their Faith
The theme for the 2009 World Communications Day, which will be celebrated May 24 in most dioceses, is “New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship.”
Releasing the message—which included e-mailing it directly to 100,000 young Catholics around the world and asking them to forward it or post it on their Web sites—the Vatican also announced that it would take a further step into the digital age by making video of the pope available on YouTube, a video-sharing Web site.
Parents & the New Media
The family and the ecclesial community must be the place where meaning is created, in which we learn to filter, to decide, to choose what is seen and heard. The family and the community are an occasion for dialogue between the Church and the world. — Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president, Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Zenit summarizes Archbishop Celli’s remarks in a video message to the Sixth World Conference of Families.
Crazy Mirrors for a Deranged Society
Are you as oblivious as Humpty Dumpty when it comes to the media, naively considering yourself a critical thinker when in actuality, you meekly swallow the preaching of today’s opinion-makers? — Zenit.org
Zenit summarizes the remarks of Dr. González Gaitano, dean of the faculty of institutional communication of Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, at the 6th World Meeting of Families.
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- Be the first to know the next Archbishop of St. Louis
- Tonight: Cyberethics workshop
- More Catholics embrace online social networking
- Cyberethics for Seminarians
- CYBERETHICS: Our Relationships in Cyberspace
- Pope to Journalists: Live Your Faith
- Media Impact on Children
- New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship
- Parents & the New Media
- Crazy Mirrors for a Deranged Society