People
Team
- Dr. Elena Negrea-Busuioc (PI) - [elena.negrea[at]comunicare.ro]
Elena has been working on metaphor, especially on metaphor comprehension, over the last ten years. She started by examining the role of metaphors in communicating about politics and EU-related topics, then she moved on to explore the use of metaphors in advertising (with a particular focus on advertising for social causes). More recently, Elena has been involved in research on metaphors in secondary education. In 2019, together with Simona Szakacs-Behling, she examined metaphors of diversity and solidarity in Romanian social studies textbooks (UEFISCDI mobility grant). She is interested in the role that metaphors play in the simplification and communication of abstract concepts to young learners. Elena has received a PhD in linguistic (University of Bucharest, 2009) for a thesis on the pragmatics of irony and she has been a Fulbright fellow at the Department of Communication, Portland State University (OR, US, October 2013-March 2014), where she carried out a research project on deliberate metaphors in communication. Since 2010, she is the editor of the Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations.
- Prof. Alina Bargaoanu
Prof. Alina Bârgăoanu is a Romanian communication scholar with a strong interest in digital transformation, strategic communication, fighting disinformation and regulating the digital eco-system. She is the Dean of the College of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest. In 2018, she served as a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation at the European Commission. She has published extensively, both for the Romanian and the English press, on topics related to infodemic, conspiracy theories, viralisation mechanisms, public trust and government communications.
- Dr. Diana-Luiza Simion
- Dr. Oana Stefanita
Dr. Oana Stefanita is a lecturer and researcher of the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration. She has a work experience in research and communication, currently being a researcher, member of the Media and the European Public Sphere Laboratory, Center for Research in Communication, and teaching seminars of Mass Media & Society, Research Methods in Communication Sciences, and Sociology. Her academic interests cover areas related to mass communication and the study of media effects, psychology, education, Europeanization and sociology.
- Dr. Georgiana Udrea
Georgiana Udrea is Lecturer at the College of Communication and Public Relations, NSPSPA, and member of the Center for EU Communication Studies within the same institution. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences, with a thesis that investigates the emergence of a European identity in young educated mobile people. Recent publications include a book (European Identity in Intercultural Context: Insights from Erasmus Students’ Experiences, 2014, Tritonic), and more than 30 articles and chapters (authored or co-authored) in peer-reviewed journals indexed in international data bases, and collective volumes focusing on EU-related topics, intercultural adaptation, online identity construction and management, and social media use in academic context.
- Gabriela Guiu, PhD student
Collaborators
- Diana Buf, Graduate student
- Ioana Livadariu, Undergraduate student