Assistant Kilijan participated in the Doctoral Conference in Koprivnica

Hana Kilijan, an assistant from the University Department of Communication Sciences, participated on Friday, November 29, 2024, in the Doctoral Conference in the field of media and communication, organized by the University of the North in Koprivnica. Assistant Kilijan held a poster presentation on the topic "Digital space as a place for communicating religious identity: analysis of websites of Croatian-speaking religious communities".

Given that digital communication, understood as support for the evangelization mission, is a useful tool for promoting the culture of meeting, but also for communicating the identity of individual communities within the Catholic Church, assistant Kilijan analyzed the web pages of Croatian-speaking religious communities as a tool of institutional communication. in the digital space with special emphasis on the forms of communicating the identity of individual communities.

The research showed that the religious communities of the Croatian-speaking area have mostly adapted to the digital space and that through their websites they provide informative and formative content through which they directly or indirectly communicate their identities. It was also established that monastic or cloistered communities recognized the digital space as a useful tool for maintaining contact with the "outside world".