Florența TOADER Abstract: Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework based on critical and pragmatic discourse analysis, this study investigates the way Romanian politicians negotiate the identity of the Romanian diaspora on their Facebook pages. It also points out to the way discourse is used to introduce and (de)legitimize politica... Read More Keywords: Diasporic identity; Political communication; Discourse analysis; Facebook, Romania |
Srđan Mladenov JOVANOVIĆ Abstract: Since late 2019, Serbia has been gripped in a wave of protests against, as scholarly research has dubbed it, the semi-authoritarian regime of President Aleksandar Vučić. Having in mind that the President’s regime has by known been uncovered to rule by direct and indirect control of the media, the ar... Read More Keywords: Serbia; Aleksandar Vučić; Informer; Protests; Operational Code Analysis (OPCODE) |
Diana NEDELCU, Delia Cristina BALABAN Abstract: Nowadays controversial stories, conspiracy theories, or false information are massively shared on social media. Fake news is supported by the online environment because it generates traffic and financial benefits (Tandoc et al., 2018). It is a chain — users share the news on their feed, then they rece... Read More Keywords: Fake news; Disinformation; Source credibility; Message credibility; News engagement |
Is “Letting the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story” Enough? Journalists’ Perception on Fake News Elena-Alexandra DUMITRU Abstract: While numerous scholars have studied the role media has in the fake news phenomenon, journalists’ perception on disinformation has been insufficiently approached, and only from a US and West-European point of view. Based on interviews with eight traditional media and new media professionals, this stud... Read More Keywords: Fake news; Disinformation; Journalism; Media and fake news; Fact-checking |
Ana-Maria VOLOC Abstract: This study examines how central banks communicate on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether they are using these technologies to create a bidirectional communication or to increase their transparency by reaching a wider audience. The research method used for this purpose is content analysis,... Read More Keywords: Central banks; Social media; Communication strategies; Crisis communication; Transparency |
Mass Media, Social Media and Technological Evolution Today: A Theoretical Approach Lucian-Vasile SZABO Abstract: This study aims to make a synthetic theoretical presentation of the main challenges currently noticeable in the evolution of the mass media and social media in the context of the accelerated development of new technologies. It is a slow, but decided, visible change, one that profoundly affects human society... Read More Keywords: New media; Postmedia; Convergence; Factual; Virtual; Phablet; Robo-journalist |
The Influence of Brand Specific Stimuli on the Perception of Music. An Experimental Approach Adrian CHEȚAN, Ioana IANCU Abstract: In an increased competitive market, the way music performers build their brand identity becomes of great importance. Starting from a gap in the literature, the present study aims to investigate the correlations between the existence of a visual identity of a singer and the perception of the singer’s s... Read More Keywords: Music; Visual identity; Attitude towards the song; Emotion-al reaction; Intentional Behavior |
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