Social Media and Priestly Identity Among the Catholic Clergy in a Philippine Locality

• Main Author: Gozun, Jesus
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: Catholic clergy, social media, Facebook, religious identity, uses and gratifications
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/theses-dissertations/493
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Through the lens of the uses and gratifications theory, the study examined how Catholic priests used social media to gratify their identity needs along the three dimensions of a priest’s identity namely: institutional, professional, and personal (Altenhofen, 2016). The study further investigated...