Communicatio Socialis

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Communicatio Socialis

description Journal for Media Ethics and Communication in Church and Society (Subtitle)
Area of ​​Expertise Media ethics, communication and media studies
language German
publishing company Nomos Verlag (Germany)
First edition 1968
Frequency of publication quarterly
Editor-in-chief Renate Hackel-de Latour
editor Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen , Alexander Filipović
Web link www.communicatio-socialis.de
Article archive from Vol. 18 (1985), No. 3
ISSN (print) 0010-3497
ISSN (online) 2198-3852

Communicatio Socialis (Abbreviation: ComSoc ) is a communication and media science journal with the subtitle "Journal for Media Ethics and Communication in Church and Society". It deals with questions of communication and media ethics, as well as questions from the topic of "Religion, Church and Communication". While media ethics is otherwise often understood as a philosophical area ethics and thus as a sub-area of ​​philosophy, the journal uses a broader term of media ethics, which includes theoretical and empirical social science work in addition to philosophy.

The magazine is published by Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen and Alexander Filipović at the Center for Ethics in Media and the Digital Society.

Objective and task

The magazine sees the media change as an ethical challenge: With the mediatization and digitization of social communication, the importance of critical and ethical reflection on these fields is growing. The central theme of Communicatio Socialis is media ethics. Communicatio Socialis is supposed to become an interdisciplinary and “decisive place for media ethics discussion and research”.

The media-ethical orientation of the magazine is based on a Christian faith-based worldview. Media ethics is understood as a Christian-motivated contemporary service to society. The subject area "religion, church and communication" or (Catholic) church journalism is the second focus of the journal, on which the main focus was until 2013.

Frequency of publication

The magazine is published quarterly by Nomos Verlag . The individual issues have around 150 pages. In addition to the print edition, the articles are also published as an e-journal. Texts in the eJournal are chargeable within 36 months of publication. After the 36 months, all the contents of the journal are freely available ( open access ).

Special issues

Since issue 3-4 / 2013, the issues have been designed as themed issues. There are three to six articles in one issue on a mostly media ethical focus. Exemplary topics were:

  • Disability and media (1/2014)
  • Game over - Moral Dilemmas in Computer and Video Games (3/2014)
  • Image ethics (4/2014)
  • Credibility & Trust - Journalism Between Resource Crisis and Unleashed Audience (2/2015)
  • Flight and migration - facets of media ethics in an explosive debate (1/2016)
  • Sexuality and the media (3/2016)
  • Common good and media (1/2017)

history

In 1968, Franz-Josef Eilers founded together with Michael Schmolke and Karl R. Höller the journal for communication in religion, church and society "Communicatio Socialis". The title of the journal is derived from the title of the Council Decree Decretum de instrumentis Communicationis socialis " Inter mirifica " . This was the first decree of the Catholic Church on the means of communication. In terms of its theological orientation, the magazine stands in the spirit of this council and feels obliged to its statements and its ecumenical perspective. The founder Franz-Josef Eilers SVD saw a special task of the magazine in the collection and summary of news about events in the field of church journalism all over the world. Communicatio Socialis should serve as a source of information and stimulus for discussion for all those who feel committed to the Church's journalistic tasks. Recently Communicatio Socialis has developed in the direction of a general communication and media science journal with a media ethics and ecclesiastical and religious focus.

From 1968 to 1993 the magazine had the subtitle "Journal for Journalism in Church and World". In the year 26/1993 she switched to the “International Journal for Communication in Religion, Church and Society”. With the double issue 3/4 (2013) the magazine experienced its media-ethical realignment and now has the subtitle "Journal for Media Ethics and Communication in Church and Society".

Further information on the history of the magazine can be found in Volume 45/2012, Issue 4. A special volume has been published for the 50th year of the magazine, which gathers and classifies five exemplary articles from five decades of the magazine.

Editor and editor

List of previous and current publishers:

  • Karl R. Höller (born from 01/1968 to 35/2002)
  • Franz-Josef Eilers SVD (born from 01/1968 to 35/2002)
  • Michael Schmolke (born from 01/1968 to 45/2012)
  • Kees Verhaak (born between 04/1971 and 16/1983)
  • Peter Düsterfeld (born between 22/1989 and 26/1993)
  • Reinhold Jacobi (born between 26/1993 and 35/2002)
  • Walter Hömberg (born from 36/2003 to 43/2010)
  • Matthias Kopp (born from 36/2003 to 37/2004)
  • Ute Stenert (born from 38/2005 to 45/2012)
  • Andreas Büsch (born between 46/2013 and 49/2016)
  • Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen (born in 44/2011 until today)
  • Alexander Filipović (born in 45/2012 until today)

The members of the current editorial team are Renate Hackel-de Latour (responsible), Annika Franzetti, Petra Hemmelmann, Susanna Wolf, Susanna Endres, Susanne Wegener.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See self-image of the magazine Communicatio Socialis. In: communicatio-socialis.de, accessed on February 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ See website of the journal Communicatio Socialis. In: communicatio-socialis.de, accessed on February 23, 2017.
  3. ^ Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen, Andreas Büsch, Alexander Filipović: Media ethics as a task and obligation. For the realignment of Communicatio Socialis. In: Communicatio Socialis. 46/2013, issue 3/4, pp. 280–287, here: p. 281, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 824-cs.v46n3-4.64.g606 .
  4. ↑ Cf. EJournal of the journal Communicatio Socialis. In: communicatio-socialis.de, accessed on February 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b See personal entry in the Salzburg Wiki. In: salzburg.de, accessed on February 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ Cf. Michael Schmolke: Franz-Josef Eilers was 75. A collage as a tribute to the founder of “Communicatio Socialis”. In: Communicatio Socialis. International journal for communication in religion, church and society. 40/2007, issue 3, pp. 292–298, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 824-cs.v40n3.456.g4519 .
  7. ^ Franz-Josef Eilers: Journalism as a task. In: Communicatio Socialis. 1/1968, issue 1, pp. 1–5, here: p. 3.
  8. ↑ Michael Schmolke: Farewell and Thanks. One editor looks back on 45 years. In: Communicatio Socialis. 45/2012, issue 4, pp. 341–346, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 824-cs.v45n4.30.g246 .
  9. ↑ Altmeppen, Klaus-Dieter; Filipović, Alexander; Hackel-de Latour, Renate (ed.) (2017): Social Communication in Transition. 50 years of media ethics and communication in church and society. Special volume on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the magazine Communicatio Socialis. Baden-Baden: Nomos (Communicatio Socialis, special volume), ISBN 978-3-8487-4035-2 .