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One–way street: spokespersons in dioceses 2022. Interdiscursive analysis

Cite: , Ulica jednokierunkowa: rzecznicy w diecezjach 2022. Analiza interdyskursywna, "Kultura - Media - Teologia", 2023( 53) nr 1, s. 177-201.

DOI: 10.21697/kmt.53.9

Answering the question about the state of the Church’s spokespersonship in Poland in the face of social, moral, and religious changes in our country, as well as more frequent crises and scandals involving clergy, once again turns out to be essential and topical. It is the diocese’s press spokespeople who are responsible for the responsibility of conducting first line relations with the media on behalf of the particular churches they represent. The article presents the results of a research of 46 Polish dioceses carried out in July 2022. The research material was mainly a corpus of their websites. The study used the methods of content, communication, and interdiscursive analysis. That allowed to define communication in Polish dioceses as one–way and asymmetric, and to identify its main barriers.

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Adam Warzecha

Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

ORCID: 0000-0002-1738-0818