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14/10/2009 (2:16)
The Pontifical Council for Social Communications, together with CELAM (the Latin American Episcopal Conference) and SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communication), created a new Catholic mass media online directory called “www.intermirifica.net”.
This new Catholic web portal has a “Wiki” structure and is designed to be a directory where the users themselves can freely fill out or update it. Intermirifica.net also functions as a search engine for radio and television stations, as well as production companies in different languages and from distinct countries.
Users can add to the directory the basic information about a Catholic mass media: the country, language, telephone number, email, and website. Intermirifica.net’s main goal is to facilitate the communication within the Catholic mass media world so that they can interchange common ideas and projects. Currently it is only in Spanish, but very soon it will be translated into English, French, and Portuguese.
To join the Catholic directory or add information about a Catholic mass media one must enlist as a user-editor, registering the required information in Intermirifica.net in order to be accepted by one of the user-moderators. The information registered in the system by the user-editor is published online, upon verification by the user-moderator who can accept, reject, or publish the information, depending on the idiomatic group. The moderators can be from among the national managers of the Episcopal communication offices, the regional managers of SIGNIS, or other institutions from the Catholic mass communications world. According to Intermirifica.net’s organization chart, the user-editors depend on the user-moderators, who in turn depend on the user-administrators or international organizations who promote this project.
The Catholic directory ¨www.intermirifica.net¨, which refers to the first and only document from Vatican Council II dedicated to social communications, hopes to become “the yellow pages” of the Church’s mass media.
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