Denisa Oprea

• National School of Political Science and Public Administration

In addition to their potential to stimulate conversation and participation in the (online) public sphere, social media have also become a springboard for hate speech (KhosraviNik & Esposito, 2018). Ethnic minorities are among the preferred targets of online hateful content. In this paper, we report findings from an experiment that measured the exte...

Higher levels of trust in credible sources of information in times of crisis such as the current COVID-19 pandemic increase public compliance with official recommendations, minimizing health risks and helping authorities manage the crisis. Based on a national survey (N=1160), this article explores (a) actual levels of trust in various sources of in...

Higher levels of trust in credible sources of information in times of crisis such as the current COVID-19 pandemic increase public compliance with official recommendations, minimizing health risks and helping authorities manage the crisis. Based on a national survey (N=1160), this article explores (a) actual levels of trust in various sources of in...

Multiple forms of disinformation have proliferated on digital media platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic, when news consumption increased considerably. In this specific context, this paper investigates the way media diet influences the third person perceptions about people’s ability to detect fake news. We focus here on some understudied predicto...

Recomandările formulate în cadrul acestui document au la bază rezultatele proiectului” Calitate în învățământul superior: internaționalizare și baze de date pentru dezvoltarea învățământului românesc”, în special din cadrul actvității 1. Dezvoltarea de măsuri sistemice în vederea creșterii accesului, parcursului și finalizării studiilor pentru stud...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by the circulation of an unprecedented amount of “polluted” information, especially in the social media environment, among which are false narratives and conspiracy theories about both the pandemic and vaccination against COVID-19. The effects of such questionable information primarily concern the...

Despite their apparent digital literacy, adolescents often have trouble assessing the accuracy and trustworthiness of the information they encounter. Given the proliferation of fake news and that adolescents are new (or soon-to-be) voters, important issues arise for democratic processes. This study is the first to investigate Romanian adolescents’...

The aftermath of the 2016 US Presidential Elections and the Brexit campaign in Europe have opened the floor to heated debates about fake news and the dangers that these phenomena pose to elections and to democracy, in general. Despite a growing body of scholarly literature on fake news and its close relatives misinformation, disinformation or, more...

This publication tackles strategies for bridging the widening gap between the EU and its citizens. It focuses on new theoretical perspectives and empirical findings about EU media frames and narratives, political discourse and citizens' perceptions in order to promote a critical, yet constructive approach to the role of communication in the process...

This article explores the representation of motherhood and womanhood in the Romanian communist magazine Femeia and the extent to which this publication was a mere vehicle of the official pronatalist policy of Ceausescu’s regime. Two phases have been identified, overlapping both the evolution of the magazine itself and the Party’s ideology. The auth...

Agenda setting and framing have been shown to affect public opinion on a variety of topics through accessibility and interpretation schemas. Since most of the citizens lack a direct experience in European matters, media might be a key dimension in determining how citizens approach issues related to the European Union. Therefore, this study examines...

Cet article se propose d'étudier le positionnement problématique des personnages masculins des trois premiers romans de Lise Tremblay, dont la condition relève à la fois d'un postmodernisme sombre et des enjeux de la redéfinition des paramètres de l'identité masculine à la fin du XXe siècle. Ce positionnement sera appréhendé de trois points de vue:...

À travers l’analyse d’un corpus de romans québécois contemporains, nous tentons ici de baliser les éléments d’un parcours qui va de l’effritement à l’androgyne. Cette évolution est symptomatique tant de la remise en question du couple qu’engendre le féminisme radical que du passage du féminisme de la deuxième vague au féminisme de la troisième vagu...

Le présent article se veut une contribution d'ordre théorique. En premier lieu, il procède à une présentation du féminisme de la troisième vague, établit ses rapports avec le féminisme de la deuxième vague et met en valeur sa portée heuristique. En deuxième lieu, il propose une délimitation rigoureuse du champ postmoderne. Deux attitudes sont ainsi...