Generating Community through Interpersonal Relations and Digital Media: The Experience of Italian Parishes. Quantitative Research - First Stage Results

Authors

  • Lucia Boccacin Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
  • Linda Lombi Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v11i3.494

Abstract

This paper has two cognitive objectives: to illustrate the contribution of Italian parishes to the development of interpersonal and associative social relationships capable of building community environments, and to improve understanding of the role played by community technology in shaping these relationships.

The above were investigated using relative quantitative information culled from an online questionnaire from 420 Italian church parishes.

An analysis of the data revealed the particular contribution of Italian parishes in favouring the construction of a community at both the local and symbolic levels, communities where interpersonal and digital relationships play a crucial role even if via different modes and styles.

Author Biographies

Lucia Boccacin, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Department of Sociology

Linda Lombi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Italy

Department of Sociology

Downloads

Published

17.09.2021

How to Cite

Boccacin, L., & Lombi, L. (2021). Generating Community through Interpersonal Relations and Digital Media: The Experience of Italian Parishes. Quantitative Research - First Stage Results. Italian Sociological Review, 11(3), 833. https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v11i3.494

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2021)

Section

Articles

License

(APC) Article and submissions processing charges

ISR does not ask for articles and submissions processing charges APC

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following points:

  1. Authors retain the rights to their work and give to the journal the right of first publication of the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons License. This attribution allows others to share the work, indicating the authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. The authors may enter into other agreements with non-exclusive license to distribute the published version of the work (eg. deposit it in an institutional archive or publish it in a monograph), provided to indicate that the document was first published in this journal.
  3. Authors can distribute their work online (eg. on their website) only after the article is published (See The Effect of Open Access).