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Using Frame Analysis to Operationalize Discourse Theory for Critical News Media Research Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Rizwan Sarwar Sulehry,Derek Wallace
A main tenet of discourse theory, as derived from the original scholarship of Laclau and Mouffe, is that any social order is the contingent outcome of a political project. Such project is itself a consequence of material discursive practice, the pervasiveness of which is measurable in part by the extent to which its verbal articulations get disseminated with the help of news media. Thus, investigating
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Book review of 'Narratives in Research and Interventions on Cyberbullying among Young People' edited by Heidi Vandebosch & Lelia Green, Springer, 2019, 243 pages Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Diana-Maria Buf
Cyberbullying is a global phenomenon that has attracted scholarly attention since the beginning of this century. Due to the emergence of new media, researchers have focused their attention on new forms of cyberbullying and methods of intervention. In this context, the book Narratives in Research and Interventions on Cyberbullying among Young People comes to fill a gap identified in cyberbullying studies
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The Influence of Self-Efficacy in Ethical Consideration and Decision-Making Processes Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Nsini Anselem Eyo,Nurul Ain Mohd Hasan
The study explores factors influencing PR practitioners’ ethical consideration in decision-making process. In line with the theoretical approach of self-efficacy, practitioner’s performances emanate from individual self-efficacy aligned with organization culture and objectives. Thus, self-efficacy inspires individual behavior based upon their belief and capacity to execute or perform actions essential
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The Effects of Fake News on Consumers’ Brand Trust Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Gheorghe Ilie Fârte,Daniel Rareș Obadă
The aim of this study is to explore the effects of fake news on consumers’ brand trust in the food security context. The starting point of our research is the finding that issues related to food security cannot be addressed without the contribution of multinational food corporations. The efficiency of their intervention depends on their capacity to build and preserve their brand trust despite the multifarious
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Public Relations towards Member Engagement in Advocacy Networks: the ‘No Pesticides on My Plate’ Campaign Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-07-01 A. Banu Bicakci
When civil society organisations (CSOs) of asymmetric size, structure and scope become members of an advocacy network, all those variations may lead to discrepant communicative behaviour. Therefore, encouraging member organisations to collaborate and co-create messages towards an advocacy goal is a major challenge. To examine member engagement in an advocacy network, this study scrutinizes the strategic
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'I Hear You': Effects of Voice Communication on the Social Capital of Gamers Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Cosmin Ghețău,Mihai Bogdan Iovu
In the present paper we approached bonding and bridging social capital among gamers (seen as individuals who spend at least an hour a day in games) who use (or don’t use) voice communication while playing. Suspecting that voice communication usage facilitates the social capital formation. We also investigated the role of perceived anonymity as a confounding variable. To test our hypothesis, a quantitative
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Media Coverage in Times of Crisis. Intermedia Agenda-setting of COVID-19 – related Topics Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Dana Raluca Buturoiu,Ana Voloc
In times of crisis, the media play a crucial role in offering people information and updates related to the ongoing events. Thus, the media implicitly shape public opinion on the issues they cover and, as a result, influence public attitudes and behaviors. In this context, this paper aims at analyzing the media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, by means of quantitative content analysis
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What Globalization for the Many? Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Mălina Ciocea
Development “is a way of getting acquainted with ourselves” (Dobrescu, 2020, p. 9). Starting with The Century of the Emerging World (2013) and continuing with No Project Country (2019), Paul Dobrescu explores Romania’s recent history of development, in an attempt to understand what future is envisaged by current economic policies. As usual, the conclusions of the analysis are an elegy. Development
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Technology, Development, and the Competition for Supremacy Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Delia Cristina Balaban
From its very first pages, Paul Dobrescu’s new book The Dragons of Development makes its roots visible: it is built on a comprehensive literature review, and on a reflection upon progress and supremacy in contemporary societies. The author sees the development of a society as “a way to get to know ourselves” (p.10), and the ideas elaborated in the volume are based on historical and societal knowledge
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Review of Paul Dobrescu’s 'Dragonii dezvoltării: Revine istoria pe supercontinentul euroasiatic?' Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Tudor Vlad
From my point of view, Paul Dobrescu is one of the very few independent scholars and researchers in Romania, in the area of political and economic analysis. His studies do not answer to “orders” or fashions; They are based on sources and expertise that cannot be denied, and are built on broad cultural, historical, political and economic perspectives. Development, one of the main topics of the author
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Reply to reviewers of 'Dragonii dezvoltării: Revine istoria pe supercontinentul euroasiatic?' Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Paul Dobrescu
The common denominator of some of the questions and problems raised by the reviewers is represented by the new technological revolution, the role of AI in this revolution, and their impact on the world today. No one doubts the fact that we are living the greatest transformation of the information environment since Gutenberg’s printing press. Nevertheless, as John Naughton emphasized, “we’re as clueless
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The Method and the Madness Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Eugen Octav Popa
I highly recommend Hanganu-Bresch and Berkenkotter’s work to anyone who is interested in the vicissitudes of early psychiatric diagnosis, confinement and treatment. The book is well written and well documented. The reader benefits form the authors’ admirable knowledge on the evolution of psychiatry in the 19th century, the social co-creation of the institution of asylum and the many genres of discourse
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Response to reviews of 'Diagnosing Madness' Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Cristina Hanganu-Bresch
I want to thank the reviewers profusely for engaging so deeply and thoughtfully with our book, and for offering both generous assessments and thorough, well informed critiques. It has been two years since the book was published and four since my mentor and co-author passed away; it is, perhaps, a good time to reflect on it and respond to those who in good faith have parsed its ideas and placed them
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Viewing Constructions of Insanity and Mental Health through a Critical Lens Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Laura Russell
For as long as the human intellect has been documented, individuals have maintained curiosity towards the emotional, behavioral, and social dimensions of being. It comes as no surprise that our current world continues inquiring about the realm of “mental health”, questioning how it manifests physiologically and gets expressed outwardly. Far from being an objective practice, observing, interpreting
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The Effects of Framing on Oil Pollution as Covered by Print Media: A Case Study of Nigerian Newspapers Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Chika Ebere Odoemelam,Nik Norma Nik Hasan,Adnan Hussein
Incidents of oil pollution has become a reoccurring decimal over the last twenty decades in most countries of the world. The controversy over who is responsible for the massive oil pollution witnessed in some oil-producing countries globally has amplified tensions between significant stakeholders in those countries. The issue of oil pollution in Nigeria and Ghana, for instance, has caused ecosystem
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Radio Exposure and Drivers of Electoral Participation among Women Voters under the New Devolved Political Structure in Kenya Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Thomas Ibrahim Okinda,Charles Ongandi Nyambuga,Benson Oduor Ojwang
Radio dominates the news media ecosystem in Kenya. However, little is known about the relationship between radio exposure and drivers of electoral participation in Kenya. This research thus examines the correlation between radio exposure and political knowledge and attitudes, and interpersonal political discussions among women voters during the 2013 Kenya general election in Kakamega County. The study
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'So Don't You Lock up Something / That You Wanted to See Fly'. What Story for Asylum Psychiatry? Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-01 George Tudorie
In a rather long piece which an exhibition catalog has called „catholic propaganda”(Busch & Maisak, 2013, p. 342), Guido Görres reflected on madness and art, using Kaulbach’s iconic 1835 drawing of asylum inmates (Das Narrenhaus) as pretext. Görres wrote of “this hospital of the human spirit (…), this charnel ground of the living, who like specters roam, wearing on their foreheads the faded and almost
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Living Documents: A Textual Analysis Review Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Charlie Deitz
The 19th and early 20th centuries were, for English-speaking Western nations, marked by calamitous change. Among those changes was the way in which Western society handled and treated people who suffered from mental illness, the “mad” as it were. The insane asylum, a peculiar outcropping of culture that combined Christian saviorism with the nascent field of psychiatry, became the go-to vehicle for
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Hate Speech in Social Media and Its Effects on the LGBT Community: A Review of the Current Research Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Oana Ștefăniță,Diana-Maria Buf
Hate speech on social media is a real problem with real consequences. Despite the constant efforts of social media platforms to moderate, flag, and ban hate posts, there is still a vast amount of hateful content flooding them. Hate speech, in general, and offensive material online, in particular, are not easy to define and may include a wide spectre of expression. To thoroughly account for the nature
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What Determines Young People to Follow Influencers? The Role of Perceived Information Quality and Trustworthiness on Users’ Following Intentions Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Delia Balaban,Ioana Iancu,Maria Mustățea,Anișoara Pavelea,Lorina Culic
Social media is associated with the rise of new types of celebrities called influencers, who share their current experiences and ideas and often endorse brands. Developing and keeping a large community of followers is one of the most important goals of influencers. The size of their audiences is one of the elements that make them relevant to the advertising industry. The main objective of the present
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Online Pressrooms: Journalists’ Expectations from Public Relations Practitioners Concerning Online Media Relations Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Umit Atabek,Ozlem Asman Alikilic
Online pressrooms are important for public relations practitioners when improving their media relations in a rapidly developing new media ecosystem. This paper aims to provide an insight into the journalists’ preferences when retrieving information from online pressrooms. In a mixed design, qualitative and quantitative data were collected from Turkish journalists. As the first step of the study, a
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To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate against HPV? A Content Analysis of Vocabularies of Motives Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Simona Nicoleta Vulpe
In the present paper, I conducted a comparative study of vocabularies of motives that Romanian and American parents employ in the online environment on the topic of HPV vaccination. I started from C. W. Mills’s (1940) article on vocabularies of motives, integrating into my analysis the concepts of filter bubbles and echo chambers. The research method that I employed is the content analysis of posts
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Social Media and Local Government in Indonesia: Adoption, Use and Stakeholder Engagement Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Anang Dwi Santoso,Dhia Rinjany,Oemar Madri Bafadhal
While social media has been extensively adopted by local governments, not all of its benefits have been achieved. One reason is that local government-owned social media is less appealing. This research argues that to increase public involvement in social media, the government needs to understand public behavior on social media by exploring public preferences on the content and media produced. This
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Hope or Fear? A Contemporary Portrayal of Immigrants in British Regional Newspapers Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Indeevari Dodantenna
How does the press represent immigrants? The leading scholarship in framing studies argues that immigrants are mostly represented negatively in the national press, which aligns with the dominant discourse. But does that negativity exist in the local newspapers too? Focusing on the immigration debate surrounding Brexit, the following study was set out to examine ten local newspapers from the most populous
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Anime as Japanese Intercultural Communication: A Study of the Weeaboo Community of Indonesian Generation Z and Y Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Debra Hidayat,Z. Hidayat
Acculturation today does not only occur due to direct physical interaction between two different cultural groups, but rather, it is due more to online interaction. Cultural interaction also raises the imitation of the visual aspects of popular commodities, such as films being cultural products. This study aims to explore subcultures and identity communication built and maintained in the weeaboo fandom
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Book review of Demența digitală. Cum ne tulburã mintea noile tehnologii [Digitale Demenz. Wie wir uns und unsere Kinder um den Verstand bringen] Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Roberta Răducu
Every technological advancement that facilitates communication and the spread of information (motion pictures, radio, television, computers, smartphones and Internet) has been greeted by the public as the new way to improve diverse fields, including the educational system. Manfred Spitzer, neurosciences expert, specialized on studying the learning processes points out in the book Digital Dementia that
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The COVID-19 Infodemic – An Accelerated Version of the New Digital Ecosystem Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Alina Bârgăoanu,Flavia Durach
The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in terms of its quasi-simultaneous global reach and its multilayered character (medical, economic, political, geopolitical and social). It is also unprecedented because it is the first pandemic of the digital age, thus offering an accelerated version of the digital eco-system: interconnectedness across countries, regions, and even continents; globalization/ t
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Opportunities and Challenges of Digital Delivery of Sharing Dance Seniors for Social Inclusion Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-07-01 An Kosurko,Rachel V. Herron,Mark W. Skinner,Rachel J. Bar,Pia Kontos,Alisa Grigorovich,Verena Menec
Older people, especially those living with dementia, experience significant barriers to meaningful participation in their communities. Focusing on the expansion of an arts-based program to address social inclusion for older people via information communication technology (ICT), this paper identifies the challenges and opportunities of the digital delivery of the Baycrest NBS Sharing Dance Seniors program
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Shaming 2.0. Social Interaction and the Construction of Shame and Shaming Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Mira Moshe
With the rise and spread of the Web 2.0 culture the nature of “old”/“traditional” social interaction, including shame and shaming, is changing as more and more attention is given to online vs. offline social interactions. Amongst those on-going changes lies the construction of Shaming 2.0, i.e., a public attempt to impose shame on “the Other” by using Web 2.0 technological capabilities. Thus, Shaming
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Theory Meets Practice: Updating the Contingency Theory of Conflict Management with Insights from an Adroit Practitioner Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Douglas Wilbur,Glen T. Cameron
The contingency theory of conflict is nearing its third decade, but there is a lacuna in the literature about the development of strategy. Additionally, the contingency continuum and its stances are overdue for continued theoretical development. To address these theoretical issues, this project explores the inductively gathered knowledge of a nearly 40-year public relations (PR) practitioner about
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Stewardship Concept Utilization on the Websites of Polish Public Benefit Organizations Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Marian Olinski,Piotr Szamrowski
This paper aims to identify the significance of using the stewardship concept in a specific type of Polish nonprofit organization, i.e. the Public Benefit Organization (PBO). The subject of the research were the websites of the Polish Public Benefit Organizations, and the purpose was to determine the level of implementation of stewardship strategies. Having PBO status involves the possibility of using
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Cultural Authority with a Light Touch – Museums Using Humor in Social Media Communication Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Marta Najda-Janoszka,Magdalena Sawczuk
The distinctively informal and participatory environment of social media can help museums improve comprehension by providing new ways of seeing, interpreting and experiencing. Aparticular potential in that digital context may relate to a humorous discourse. Given that museum research has yet to explore the use of humor in social media communication, the aim of this article is to fill the gap by investigating
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Book review of 'Truth Decay. An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life' by Jennifer Kavanagh and Michael D. Rich, RAND Corporation, 2017, 324 p. Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Cătălina Nastasiu
Significant developments that occurred in the past two decades in the media and information system, such as the rise of the internet and social media or even the commentary based journalism that adopted a 24-hour coverage, led to a continuously rising process of creating, disseminating and consuming information. Nevertheless, the enormous amount of information that crosses the public space is not always
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Uses and Gratifications of YouTube: A Comparative Analysis of Users and Content Creators Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Diana-Maria Buf,Oana Ștefăniță
Drawing on the classic media theory of uses and gratifications, this paper comparatively analyzes the uses of YouTube and the rewards obtained by consumers and content of this video sharing platform. The aim of this research is two-fold: 1. to identify the main uses and gratifications that determine consumers and content creators to use YouTube, and 2) to examine the reasons behind the decision to
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Social Support Mediated by Technology. A Netnographic Study of an Online Community for Mothers Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Monica Bîră,Corina Buzoianu,George Tudorie
New mothers experience social isolation, and they sometimes lack experience in interacting with their babies. Social support accessed via information and communication technologies (ICTs) can help mitigate such difficulties. Social media groups, in particular, offer opportunities for interacting with other mothers, thus locating an alternative and potentially powerful source of support. In this study
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Thoughts on Antisocial Media. How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-05-15 Raluca Buturoiu
Research interests in this area have revolved around illuminating the dark side of social networking sites (especially Facebook and Twitter). And the light thrown has at times been quite harsh. Here are a few examples of how Facebook has been being portrayed since 2016: “the biggest threat to our democracy”, as Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser1 says; “a digital gangster destroying
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The Development of a Questionnaire for Measuring the Quality of the Work of the PR Department in Organizations Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-05-15 Milan Nikolic,Sanja Bozic,Edit Terek,Marko Vlahovic,Mila Kavalic,Marko Ivanis
This paper presents the development of a questionnaire for measuring the quality of the work of the PR department (office, sector) in organizations. For this purpose, the necessary research was carried out with experts in the field of public relations, and the statistical methods of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used. The research was conducted in Serbia
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Democracy and Deliberation in the Age of Facebook Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Alina Haliliuc
In 2016, we witnessed two shocking political decisions in stable democracies: the election of Donald Trump as American president and the United Kingdom’s referendum to exit the European Union membership. After the scandal of Cambridge Analytica mining Facebook data to influence the 2016 U.S. elections, a public conversation began to question the role of data use, surveillance practices, and especially
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This time is different. The globalization of uncertainty Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Paul Dobrescu,Mălina Ciocea
“Some warn that the disease will be remembered not only as a human catastrophe, but also as a geopolitical turning-point away from the West. Are they right?” (Minton Beddoes, 2020). Irrespective of the answer, this question raises the unsettling issue of the viability of the current international order. This is not a singular voice. For instance, Henry Kissinger unequivocally asserts that “The coronavirus
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E-public Relations in Health Organizations: How EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe Uses the Website and Facebook to Communicate with Key Publics Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Célia Belim
This article focuses on how EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe uses e-Public Relations to communicate and construct and strengthen relations with key publics, concretely the patients/members and journalists. Grounded on rhetorical theory and on a triple (qualitative, quantitative, and rhetorical) analysis to content, the study explores the website, Facebook page and press releases of EURORDIS. The results
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The Political Reform and the Amharic Biweekly Reporter: The Editorial Contents of the Reporter Newspaper in Ethiopia from 2017 to 2019 Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Negesse Gessese
This research examines the agenda and frames used by the Reporter newspaper editorial coverage of issues and actors before and after the reform in Ethiopia. The study applies quantitative content analysis method and examined 99 (Period 1 = 57 and Period 2 = 42) editorials in all periods. The source of data and the period of data collection were purposely selected. The results indicated that societal
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The Dark Side of F. Reflections on Siva Vaidhyanathan’s Antisocial Media. How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Jakub Jakubowski
The book takes a natural and necessary direction on the path to the modernization of the critical tradition, choosing Facebook, which has provided numerous reasons to be criticized by the author of this book, and by others. After a relatively long stage of cognitive optimism which prevailed in the discourse on the internet and democracy, this relationship has begun to be looked at with increasing caution
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Emotive and Positive Political Communication on Facebook: The Case of Argentinean Leaders Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Raquel Tarullo
The communication that political leaders have performed on social media in recent years demands constant and novel approaches for understanding how politicians interact with their supporters in the digital space. In this sense, the aim of this research is to examine the communication that Argentine political leaders display on Facebook, the most popular social media amongst Argentineans, during a highly
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Evaluating the Spread of Fake News and its Detection. Techniques on Social Networking Sites Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Isyaku Hassan,Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi,Akibu Mahmoud Abdullahi
The phenomenon of fake news has become a much contentious issue recently. The controversy regarding this issue has further been intensified by the openness of social media platforms. Via a systematic review, this paper offers a discussion on the spread and detection techniques of fake news on Social Networking Sites (SNSs). A total of 47 articles eventually fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were
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Social Media & Organizational Management of Contemporary Socio-Cultural Movement: An Instrumental Case Study of Akademi Berbagi in Indonesia Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Andi Awaluddin Fitrah,Hermin Indah Wahyuni,I Gusti Ngurah Putra
The rise of the internet and social media has promoted the evolution of a new form of social movement in Indonesia, one that has predominantly promoted socio-cultural, rather than political change. However, many of these movements have continued to face the classic challenges of social movements, particularly consistency and sustainability. As such, a number of movements have dissolved as they have
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Politics of Culture and Culture of Politics on Indian Television News: A Frame Analysis of Hindi Television News Debates in India Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Fatma Tahzeeb
News as a narrative form relies on various codes of culture to communicate to the audience. Understanding news is not limited to what is communicates but how it does that in order to assess the real effect of news on society. Its relationship with society and its power can be studied by how news frames the issues that it communicates. Over the years Indian television has seen a revolution in the way
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Depiction of Childlessness in Lithuanian Mass Media from 2011–2016: A Catalyst of Modernization Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Grazina Rapoliene,Lina Sumskaite
Demographic research shows the increase of childlessness rates among women born in 1970 in comparison to those born in 1953 in Lithuania, but cultural aspects influencing reproductive behavior are under-explored. To our knowledge, the representation of childlessness in the Lithuanian mass media has not been studied yet. The aim of this article is to analyze how childlessness is depicted in the most
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The Articulation of Public Problems within a Communicative Figuration Approach Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Mălina Ciocea,Alexandru Cârlan,Bianca Cheregi
This article proposes an analytical shift in the theorization of public problems, from the standard (institutional) constructionist view which has informed the tradition of conceptualising social problems since Spector and Kitsuse’s classic work, to a communicative constructionist view, stemming from the mediatization paradigm. The rationale behind this shift is based on the conceptualization of the
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Review of #FAKENEWS. Noua cursã a înarmãrii [#FAKENEWS. The new arms race] by Alina Bârgăoanu Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Elena Negrea-Busuioc
“Fake news is neither fake, nor news” – Alina Bârgăoanu bluntly states in her latest book focusing on the overhyped phenomena of fake news and disinformation. An awful lot of public discussion and publications, both academic and popular literature, have been generated, during the last five years or so, by the fake news mania worldwide. However, significantly fewer efforts have been made to dissect
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Facebook Communication and Marketing Influence on Decision-Making and Choice of University Student Representatives: A Student’s Perspective Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Tapiwa Chininga,Ellen Rungani,Norman Chiliya,Tinashe Chuchu
Facebook has become the main platform for young adults to sustain their social presence as well as expand their social networks. The impact of social media on youth decision-making has attracted much attention in research and academia. The research setting was at University of Fort Hare, a university located in South Africa. Before and during a student representative council (SRC) election at the university
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Shades of Fake News: Manifestation, Effects and Ways to Combat False Information Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Alexandru Cristian Dumitrache
In a continually changing global political environment, fake news has become a widely debated topic by both researchers and ordinary people. Despite the relevance and the diversity of approaches, few studies have focused on the typology of fake news in specialised scientific literature, while proper assessment methods and detection techniques are not well-established yet. This paper addresses the complex
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Libyan PR Participants’ Perceptions of and Motivations for Studying PR in Libya Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Mokhtar Elareshi, Ayman Bajnaid
Public relations in Libya is very much a new phenomenon, even compared with other Arab countries, although there are PR practices growing in tandem with some large local businesses and organisations. Based on the assumption that PR continues to play a vital role in communities and businesses, it is important to reconsider and evaluate its practices regularly, especially in terms of teaching and skills
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Facebook and Public Relations in Higher Education Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Ludvik Eger,Dana Egerova,Miroslav Kryston
Nowadays It is essential for universities and faculties to interact on-line with their potential applicants, current students as well as other stakeholders. In recent years, social media such as Facebook has provided higher education institutions with new means of communication with their target groups. The purpose of this study is to explore the use of the most popular social network Facebook by selected
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Review of "The Platform Society. Public Values in a Connective World", by José van Dijck, Thomas Poell, and Martijn de Waal Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Delia Balaban
In a society based on sharing economy and personalized services, the book The Platform Society. Public Values in a Connective World is focused on a relevant contemporary issue, that of the platform-driven change of society. The book offers a comprehensive view of a connected world (p.2) where several areas of society are subject to change. By using techniques that enable connectedness and supported
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Review of "Financial Citizenship. Experts, Publics & the Politics of Central Banking", by Annelise Riles Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Raluca Iacob (Bâra)
In 2018, the anthropological literature on economics was enriched by the publication of a book that argues for building communication bridges between financial experts and the public. It identifies the main blind spots on both sides, discusses the need to substantiate a new narrative legitimacy for central banks, and gives experts in these prominent institutions a rigorous call to action for a more
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Users’ Perspective on the Credibility of Social Media Influencers in Romania and Germany Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Delia Balaban, Maria Mustățea
The present research addresses the issue of source credibility of social media influencers from the perspective of users. Social media influencers are defined as online personalities with a large number of followers, across one or several social media platforms. They have a complex role, being content creators, online opinion leaders, and even entrepreneurs. Influencer marketing is becoming a more
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A Swirl of Semiosis of Communication in Media and Political Discourse Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Griselda Zárate, Olga Nelly Estrada
The 2016 US elections offer the opportunity for interpretation within a continuum of semiotic processes. This is particularly acute in regards to previous events, such as the visit in August 31, 2016 of US president candidate Donald Trump to Mexico. This paper aims to approach this political event as a cultural text containing several subtexts with diverse layers of meaning production: the mentioned
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The Marketing Values in News Production Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Khalaf Tahat
The main purpose of this study is to test the proposed marketing model in news production by applying it to the contentofanon-Western news organization as well as to explore the degree to which this proposed model predicts the type of media content patterns. Content analysis was used on the English (AJE) and the Arabic (AJA) versions of Al Jazeera news websites from January 1, 2014 to April 30, 2014
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Left/Right Polarity in Gestures and Politics Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Nicolae Sorin Drăgan
In this article we investigate how political actors involved in TV debates during the 2009 and 2014 presidential elections in Romania manage the relationship between handedness (left/right polarity in hand gestures) and political orientation (left/right polarity in politics),. For this purpose we developed a multimodal analysis for some relevant sequences during these debates. The practice of integrating
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Cultural Ethos Constructed in Press Titles and Their Translation Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Maria Antoniou
The present study explores, from a contrastive point of view, the conditions that rule the political discourse in terms of linguistic politeness. By contrasting the data (examples drawn from press titles, mainly the French journal Le Monde Diplomatique and its’ translations into Greek), we will be able to discover the underlying operations and constraints that regulate the use of such markers and to