Communication Ethics: encouraging the meeting culture

Abstract

We are inserted in a remarkably communicative society. Progress, new technologies, advances in science, culture, and habits are the greatest promoters of this "brave new world". We are still learning to live with. And along this learning some gaps in communication itself have been making modern thinkers and society apprehensive. This comes because of a thesis more and more disseminated but with no answer: why do people communicate less although we live in a time when people have different mechanisms for communicating? So this article intends to indicate elements that either confirms or not this preoccupation. And more: it wishes to indicate a possible answer based on ethics as a way to humanize communicational relationships among people. For this, I will be based on recent ecclesiastic documents such as “Diretório de Comunicação da Igreja no Brasil” (Directory for Communication of Church in Brazil) and Holy Father's message for this year's "World Communication´s Day" besides communication and ethics' authors.