How can youth (and adults!) be good humans and good digital Catholics in the way we choose to use social media? What personal and group strategies do we need to develop? What conversations do we need to have with family, friends, colleagues, youth? What kind of a world do we want to live in?
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TEENS & SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ADULTS L.A. CONGRESS 2016
1. TEENS & SOCIAL MEDIA
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3. Canticle of Praise for the Media
We thank you, Lord God, for the unending Pentecost
of Your creative Holy Spirit, which enables Your
sons and daughters to be afire with Your Truth,
Beauty and Goodness.
May the blind see, the deaf hear, and the poor
receive justice through the proclamation of
the Good News through today’s media. Amen.
--Blessed James Alberione, SSP
10. How can we use media to be more human
rather than less human?
11. Technology
Generation Z (iGen) (2000- ) have handled digital media from the crib.
DIGITAL
ALIENS
DIGITAL
IMMIGRANTS
DIGITAL
ADAPTIVES
DIGITAL
NATIVES
The Silents
(1925-1945)
latecomers to
technology.
Internet, podcasts,
texting, online
gaming & social
networking are
largely alien
concepts to them.
The Baby Boomers
(1946-1964)
reached adulthood
without digital
technology. While
many embrace
new technologies,
some do so only
partially or
reluctantly.
Generation X
(1965-1982)
Digital
technologies
emerged largely
during their teen
years. They
willingly embrace
technology.
Generation Y /
Millennials
(1983-1999)
have enjoyed the
luxuries of digital
technology since
they were children,
including the
massive video
game industry.
39. What are some online “dangers”?
• Relationships – predators, strangers, “wrong crowd”
• Romance -- “ “ “ “ “ “
• Porn – dignity of the human person
• Violence (obscenity) e.g., beheadings, accidents, killings
• How I present myself to others—dignity of the human person
• Cyberbullying – dignity of the human person
• News & information – truth, caring about world
• Hoaxes, fact-checking
• ID theft and hackers – $ and personal property
• Illegal activity – copyright issues, theft
• Time – balance needed, face time needed
• Content / input – formation of conscience and tastes
• Consumerism – $ and dignity of the human person
• Health – exercise, fresh air, texting while driving, etc.
• Gambling -- $
73. Jesus is the Way
to follow
#TalkJesusWithMe
#LAYouthDay
74. Spiritual Works of Mercy
1. INSTRUCT THE IGNORANT
2. COUNSEL THE DOUBTFUL
3. ADMONISH THE SINNER
4. BEAR WRONGS PATIENTLY
5. FORGIVE OFFENSES WILLINGLY
6. COMFORT THE AFFLICTED
7. PRAY FOR THE LIVING & DEAD
80. •
ThehumanpersonistheimageofGod
Whatever you do to the least of my
brethren, you do to me.”
--Matthew 25:40
“We cannot love the God we can’t see
if we don’t love the brother or sister
we can see.”
--1 John 4:20
83. Christ has no online
presence but yours.
No Snapchat, no Facebook
page but yours.
Yours are the tweets through
which love touches this
world.
Yours are the posts through
which the Gospel is shared.
Yours are the texts and
updates through which hope
is revealed.
Christ has no online
presence but yours.
-- Meredith Gould
84. --How can we change some ways we use social
media to make it BETTER?
--What are 3 problems / 3 solutions for the world of
digital media?
--How can we be more like Christ online?
--How do you seek God & where do you find God in
media?
--How can we be better digital Catholics?
88. • Praise and ThankGod: for the media
• Petition:Pray for those in media, audiences
• Reparation:for evil media atMass
and EucharisticAdoration
• Create media:(Love for God& neighbor)
110. A short history of the digital revolution
• 1. personal computers & desktop publishing
2. "digital" technology=reproductions without loss of quality
3. "text" internet (tethered to a computer)
4. search engines (the world at your fingertips)
5. perfected delivery of graphics, video & audio over internet
6. Wi-Fi (untethered internet access on computers)
7. smartphones (untethered internet access on cellphones)
8. social media (instantaneous sharing of media, thoughts, reactions, activities,
creations via text, graphics, photos, videos, streaming)
9. people addicted to devices 24/7--almost as an appendage
10. young people's drastic loss of reading, writing & verbal literacy
skills in actual reality--in favor of digital communication in virtual reality
11. a return to a visual culture
115. Reflection Questions
• What kind of world do you want to live in (with regard to media)? Describe it.
• Are you happy with the way you, family, friends, colleagues, youth
use media around you? What example can you set?
• What is your personal plan for your own media device & social media use
now?
• What conversations do you need to have with family, friends, colleagues,
youth about media devices & social media?
When / how will you have these conversations?
• Where is God (specifically) in your digital life? Where might He
need to be?
117. “There is an appointed time
for everything under heaven.”
–Ecclesiastes 3:1
#BoundlessMercy
#RECongress
Notas do Editor
Animals have intelligence, memory, self-consciousness, emotions, instincts, but not free will, so they can’t truly love. But God loves them and they are very special, too.
Animals have intelligence, memory, self-consciousness, emotions, instincts, but not free will, so they can’t truly love. But God loves them and they are very special, too.
How would you describe God in one word? LOVE. (3 Persons loving each other perfectly.) Is God the source of all LOVE? Is God the source of all LIFE? God’s love IS life and God’s life IS love. You can’t separate LOVE and LIFE. Do we share in God’s LOVE and LIFE? (diff ways? image, baptism, sex) Did God invent sex? He couldn’t be all that bad, then, right? That’s the kind of God we have.
WHY DID GOD CREATE US? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE/MEANING OF LIFE? “To know, love, serve God and to be HAPPY WITH HIM HERE ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN.” (Not just in HEAVEN!) What is SEX FOR? (love between husband and wife / children / 3rd???)
Sex is meant to be a foretaste of the bliss of heaven. Did you know that? That’s why it has to be within MARRIAGE—because God’s love is faithful. He doesn’t love us and dump us. When we have sex with someone, our bodies are saying: LOVE AND LIFE WITH YOU FOREVER. This is called the LANGUAGE OF THE BODY. (Science: chemicals in our brains that bond us—that’s why break-up is so hard when people have had sex with each other, and teens brains/bodies can’t handle: suicide). “YOU!” exhibit at Museum of Science and Industry.
Whatever I do with my body, I do with my soul. Whatever I do with my soul, I do with my body. Death is unnatural. The worst thing that can happen to you. WHAT IS death? “Separation of body and soul.” We become “incomplete persons,” “disembodied souls.” Not part of God’s original plan for us!
Have a guy go up. “Look at _____.” “Look at _____’s body.” “Look at _____’s soul.” YOU DID THE SAME THING!
Have a guy go up. “Look at _____.” “Look at _____’s body.” “Look at _____’s soul.” YOU DID THE SAME THING! We don’t HAVE A BODY like a possession that we USE.
How would you describe God in one word? LOVE. (3 Persons loving each other perfectly.) Is God the source of all LOVE? Is God the source of all LIFE? God’s love IS life and God’s life IS love. You can’t separate LOVE and LIFE. Do we share in God’s LOVE and LIFE? (diff ways? image, baptism, sex) Did God invent sex? He couldn’t be all that bad, then, right? That’s the kind of God we have.
WHY DID GOD CREATE US? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE/MEANING OF LIFE? “To know, love, serve God and to be HAPPY WITH HIM HERE ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN.” (Not just in HEAVEN!) What is SEX FOR? (love between husband and wife / children / 3rd???)
Sex is meant to be a foretaste of the bliss of heaven. Did you know that? That’s why it has to be within MARRIAGE—because God’s love is faithful. He doesn’t love us and dump us. When we have sex with someone, our bodies are saying: LOVE AND LIFE WITH YOU FOREVER. This is called the LANGUAGE OF THE BODY. (Science: chemicals in our brains that bond us—that’s why break-up is so hard when people have had sex with each other, and teens brains/bodies can’t handle: suicide). “YOU!” exhibit at Museum of Science and Industry.