Ongoing research projects:

Starting from 2020, Nicoleta Corbu and Raluca Buturoiu are involved in the international research project THREATPIE (The Threats and Potentials of a Changing Political Information Environment). The project examines how the current changes in the political information environments in European democracies affect the conditions for a healthy democracy. More details can be found here.

Starting from September 2020, Dana Raluca Buturoiu (as Project leader) and Nicoleta Corbu (as Mentor) are involved in the research project Setting the agenda in the new media landscape (postdoctoral research project financed by UEFISCDI, project code PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0034). The main goal of this project is to reveal the particularities of today’s media environment in what regards the sources of media information (intermedia agenda-setting), the way objects (topics) and attributes transfer from the media to the public agenda (network agenda-setting), and the predictors of media consumption behavior. More details can be found here. Achieved results of the project include:

Starting from September 2020, Elena Negrea-Busuioc coordinates the research project Communicating science to the younger generations: The metaphors through which our children learn (COMMETSCI), financed by UEFISCDI, project code PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-1300. The project seeks to explore how science metaphors and analogies are understood and misunderstood by young learners and the implications that (mis-) understanding complex scientific ideas might have for students' preparedness to make sense of the world we live in and, ultimately, for their future engagement with and interest in science. The project includes many members affiliated to the Media Studies Lab. Achieved results of the project will be announced as they are publicly available.

Starting from September 2019, members of MSL are involved in the research project Effects of hate speech in social media. The goal of this research project is to investigate the propagation and the effects of derogatory language and hate speech used in social media, in Romania, with the intention to harm based on ethnicity and sexual orientation. Achieved results of the project include:

Completed research projects and achieved results:

Nicoleta Corbu coordinated the research activities of the Romanian team of the project COST-ACTION IS-1308 Populist Political Communication in Europe: Comprehending the Challenge of Mediated Political Populism for Democratic Politics, as a Member of the Management Committee. Achieved results of the project include:

Between 2018-2019, members of MSL were involved in the project Fake News Effects in the Digital Era. The aim of this project is to investigate the effects of fake news in political communication. The project is based on an online experiment conducted in Romania. Achieved results of the project include:

As a project manager, Nicoleta Corbu coordinated between 2012-2013 the research project "The Euro Crisis: Public Debate, Media Framing and Social Perception" (Center for Research in Communication, College of Communication and Public Relations / 6-8 Povernei Street, District 1, 010641, Bucharest). Selected achieved results include an edited book, several articles, and chapters, among which:

Between 2008-2011, Nicoleta Corbu was team member in the research project "Intercultural communication in the European context. Construction of a Conjunctive paradigm on the new rapport between national cultures and the emergence of European cultural identity" (National Council of Higher Education Research/1 Schitu Măgureanu Blvd, 3rd Floor, District 5, 050025, Bucharest), being responsible for the coordination of research activities regarding European identity. Achieved results:

During the same period (2008-2011), Nicoleta Corbu was team member in the research project "The media construction of europeanization as a public problem in the context of the European integration of Romanian society". Selected papers published as part of the project: