Corpus Linguistics Analysis of Vatican Documents from 1967 to 2020

Dataset resulting fomr the analysis of the entire production of papal Encyclicals, Apostolic Exhortations and World Communication Day addresses from 1967 to 2020. This included two phases. Firstly, texts were studied through a corpus linguistics software to identify and quantify the presence of terms that refer to mass media and new media technologies. Subsequently, an in-depth study around the evolution of the term “media” was conducted, including the selection and categorization of the term’s correlated verbs and their ethical characterization.