THE CHURCH IN CROATIAN INTERNET PORTALS
THE CHURCH IN CROATIAN INTERNET PORTALS

Summary/Abstract: Today’s culture of communication is influenced by the internet and social networks. Therefore, being virtually present on social networks and internet portals has become an imperative of everyday life. In this regard, the authors analyze the status of the Catholic Church on the most widely read secular and religious internet portals by exploring their relationship to the Catholic Church. The main goal of the research is to examine and determine whether the status of the Catholic Church in the period that was the subject of the research was negatively or positively intoned on the researched internet portals. The authors try to find the answer to the research questions by analyzing the content of articles on the topic of the Catholic Church published on six internet portals and shared on the official Facebook pages of these media. Descriptive statistics in the paper present the results of the research. The obtained results lead to the conclusion that the articles placed in the media about the Catholic Church are mostly positively intoned. However, the negative article placed by the secular media on social networks has a greater impact and thus seemingly creates the image that the negative media connotation of the Catholic Church is predominantly represented. The results obtained in the conducted research can be used for further research and further shed light on the topic of the media’s attitude towards the Catholic Church.

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