Research and projects
- Main research interests in the laboratory
- Research projects
- The Communicative Construction of Public Problems in Contemporary Romania: the Media and the Public Sphere (Project Coordinator: Mălina Ciocea, June 2019 – June 2022, Mini-grant from the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)
- Diaspora in the Romanian Media and Political Sphere. From Event to the Social Construction of Public Issues
- Mediation and mediatization in the cinematic memory of Romanian communism
- The memory of communism in younger generations: the construction of a public problem in the Romanian public sphere through media debates
Discourse and the construction of public problems represent the main focus of research interests in this laboratory. Analyses follow the dynamics of public problems in terms of actors and interactions – diachronically, and in terms of communicational strategies – synchronically. Two particular empirical areas are favoured: a) migration and the status of diaspora as a public problem constructed at the intersection between media and institutional discourses and b) cultural identities, public memory and their integration at various scales (national, transnational, global), at the intersection between mediatization and commodification as metaprocesses of modernity.