A5030554316- Social Media and Politics
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Humor Studies and Applications
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Regional Development and Policy
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Economic Issues in Ukraine
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Sports Analytics and Performance
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Romani and Gypsy Studies
- Educational Methods and Analysis
- Media Influence and Health
- Science Education and Pedagogy
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- EU Law and Policy Analysis
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
National School of Political Science and Public Administration
2015-2024
The aftermath of the 2016 US Presidential Elections and Brexit campaign in Europe have opened floor to heated debates about fake news dangers that these phenomena pose elections democracy, general. Despite a growing body scholarly literature on its close relatives misinformation, disinformation or, more encompassing, communication information disorders, few studies so far attempted empirically account for effects might have, especially with respect what scholars call third person effect....
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research neglected the differential effects of Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper draws a unique, extensive, experiment in sixteen European countries ( N = 15,412) to test...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken many countries worldwide and forced them to take unprecedented public health restrictive measures stop the spread of coronavirus infections. For any disease containment strategy be successful, willingness comply with is essential. In this paper, we report findings from a national online survey on perception in Romania. We show that individual compliance shaped by factors such as news consumption, trust institutions, feelings uncertainty, belief conspiracy...
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Abstract Political memes are ubiquitous in social media. They easy to make, alter and spread, they a funny way of sanctioning politicians. This paper seeks analyze the satirical targeting Viorica Dăncilă explore extent which such could be considered manifestation political trivialization rather than criticism. Drawing on qualitative methods text image analysis we ask: (1) how is humor constructed Romania’s former prime minister, (2) what either form criticism or matter pure entertainment....
Drawing on data from a series of informal conversations about public safety and police-community relations, we distinguish between speaker’s generalized communicative intentions with respect to metaphor use story-telling, based what Chafe (1994, p. 145) calls “unifying ideas that persist in semiactive consciousness” the spontaneous arise within short-term focus or spotlight consciousness guide production actual utterances. Although speakers occasionally enter conversation fixed intention...
<p>Populism is on the rise in Europe; this a fact attested by success of populist parties recent elections (regional, national, European). Populists’ electoral performance can be explained from variety perspectives, depending focus analysis; e.g. ideological, socio-economic, political factors. This paper aims to contribute insightful observations attempts show how these have managed score so well analyzing communication and discursive practices used politicians. I will examining...
<p>The financial and economic turmoil within the European Union has significantly impacted upon way in which citizens assess advantages of EU membership future integration process. Intensely preoccupied with problems, leadership lost sight constant decrease public support increasing lack citizens’ confidence Union. This paper seeks to show dynamics opinion between 2008 2013 a special focus on rise Euroscepticism, using secondary data analysis standard Eurobarometers. Our longitudinal...
The concern about misinformation in the public space has become more worrisome during COVID-19 pandemic and war Ukraine. In this context, we investigate what make people correctly recognize accurate information detect at beginning of conflict Romania, a bordering country. By means national survey ( N = 1006) conducted April-May 2022, looked for predictors people’s capacity navigating environment conflict. Data was gathered via an online panel by Kantar as part cross-country project...
The paper reports on a pilot study devoted to the analysis of opinions expressed by Facebook discussants related immigration crisis in Europe. Opinions were conceptualised as subjective expression evaluation. data investigated line with an original, tripartite typology consisting 46 criteria evaluative language coming from distinct scholarly traditions: media studies, linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis. Generally speaking, proposed templates proved effective when mapped onto social...
“Fake news is neither fake, nor news” – Alina Bârgăoanu bluntly states in her latest book focusing on the overhyped phenomena of fake and disinformation. An awful lot public discussion publications, both academic popular literature, have been generated, during last five years or so, by mania worldwide. However, significantly fewer efforts made to dissect clarify nature and, more importantly, political, social even psychological implications disinformation exponentially increased spread.
Abstract This paper examines sports metaphors as symbolic resources for electoral discourse, focusing on both their conventional nature and strategic value in delivering the political message. It takes form of a case study analyzing multimodal realizations ‘EuroChampion’ metaphor five posters used by Romanian Liberal Party 2014 campaign European Parliament. We argue that richness imagery are strategically to enhance deeper doctrinal party positioning, such promoting meritocracy...
Solidarity is a complex, abstract, multifaceted concept that may be unpacked and used in variety of situations, ranging from socio-economic political contexts to the currently salient pandemic context. Defining solidarity, either theory or practice, requires connections other less abstract ideas, which are more familiar people. In this paper, I examine way solidarity defined explained Romanian social studies textbook for 6th graders. My analysis focuses on two metaphorical framings found...
COVID-19 vaccine-related conspiracy narratives skyrocketed in social media the first year of pandemic. Science communicators have tried to debunk false information as did Vlad Mixich, a Romanian public health expert, who explain on Facebook why vaccine cannot modify human DNA. Drawing literature metaphor discourse phenomenon, this paper uses discourse-led approach analysis identify and analyze metaphors used by Mixich how vaccines work mRNA technology underlying vaccine. A particular is then...
The book by Paul Dobrescu and Flavia Durach is a reflection meditation on how economic, social, cultural, technological developments have shaped the world to way in which it today. collection of ideas contemporary development, some been previously published various outlets (books specialized journals) two authors together or separately. volume reviewed here examines most impactful global based detailed presentation analysis facts situations. do not intend offer solutions challenges problems...
Metaphors and analogies are efficient attractive tools used in science teaching to explain abstract ideas simpler, familiar terms. Science textbook authors teachers rely on metaphors scientific concepts convey them young learners. In this paper, we discuss a corpus of metaphorical expressions found Romanian physics chemistry textbooks for secondary education (grades 6-8), classified based target domains (i.e., the core presented unit lessons analyzed textbooks) source more concrete, from...