Valentina Pricopie

• PhD in Information and Communication Sciences, Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, 2006
• Senior Researcher at Romanian Academy

This paper aims at restoring the domestic mnemonic dimension of the "Tilea Affair" as a diplomatic incident, in order to reconfigure its functioning and symbolic significance on the floor of European and international performed diplomacy. The paper also explores the mnemonic density of this representative diplomatic incident of contemporary history...

This paper examines both the transposition of the 2009 European Parliament’s Resolution on European conscience and totalitarianism in Romania and the media coverage of the Europe-wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. It shows that the European dimension of 23 August remains blocked in Romania due...

Public discourse both in Western European countries and in the emergent states of Central and Eastern Europe is built around the repertoire of peace. This paper aims at investigating the changing vs. unchanging nature of the discursive repertoire of peace as central point of a new project for Europe, starting from Romanian corpora confronting t...

Starting from the premise that a better understanding of the legal efforts to implement European norms regarding human rights in prisons cannot overlook prisoners’ subjective experiences of rights, this article addresses the issue of prisoners’ complaints in Romania. Using survey data on a sample of 557 prisoners, it first seeks to examine how ofte...

This entry focuses on four main issues: (1) the terminological divide that separates social constructivism and social constructionism’s respective approaches, (2) the constructivist paradigm, (3) its core concepts, and (d) constructivist contributions to communication theory and media studies.

This entry provides an overview of the philosophical, sociological, and communicational approaches to alterity, with a focus on the current trends in approaching alterity in media studies.

This entry provides an overview of Berger and Luckmann’s use of the term social construction of reality, further conceptual developments, and social construction of reality as a communication theory.

This entry provides information on the rise and practice of newspaper journalism, and its key concepts.

Au sein des sciences sociales, les phénomènes le plus difficilement analysables sont ceux en train de se produire ou qui n’ont pas encore touché à leur fin en matière de résultats et d’effets. C’est justement le cas de l’implantation de l’ADF en Roumanie après la chute du communisme, qui, trente ans après, atteste une évolution constante ayant...

Previous research has documented the crucial role that the perceptions and attitudes of prison staff play in everyday prison practice and the treatment of prisoners. The current study follows this contention in order to investigate how prison staff in Romania perceive the outcomes of the recently adopted prison law advocating the principle of human...

In the last years, European citizens regained their crucible role in the European governance reshaping and practice; the ways citizens choose to correct the EU initiatives emphasise significant sensitive issues concerning social trust, personal belonging and civic attachment to Europe. The aim of this paper is to present a comparative analysis on h...

Raportul de față prezintă un set de recomandări menite să contribuie la îmbunătățirea cadrului legislativ actual și a practicii penitenciare în ceea ce privește respectarea drepturilor omului/ drepturile deținuților în închisorile din România. Aceste recomandări au la bază trei studii ample realizate de cercetătorii care au participat la implementa...

There are currently over 1.6 million prisoners in Europe and conditions in European prisons vary widely. The European Society of Criminology’s Working Group on Prison Life and the Effects of Imprisonment was established in 2010. The Working Group consists of scholars from over 20 countries who aim to encourage prison research in Europe. These acade...

After Romania‘s adhesion to the European Union, in 2007, the discursive actor Europe acquires new dimensions in Romanian political debates. This paper analysis the way Romanian political discourse uses the previous metaphors on Europe, in order to place European Union in the national political context. The methodological framework of this paper foc...

This paper analysis the structural transformation of Romanian daily newspapers during the time of Romania's integration (2002-2006) in the European Union, namely the introduction of specific columns and thematic pages dedicated to the European Union and the adhesion process, which proved certain continuity after January 2007. We interrogated a sele...

This article analyzes the American presence in two journals of the Bucharest School of Sociology, as well as the information provided in these journals with regard to the American sociological models and their evolution. The data reviewed demonstrate not only a strong academic connection, but also an active cooperation and consistent exchange of ac...

THE VOICE OF FOREIGN GUESTS IN THE ROMANIAN PARLIAMENT (2007–2013). DISCURSIVE REPRESENTATIONS ON THE EUROPEAN DEMOCRATIC IDEAL This paper focuses on discourse analysis of a comprehensive corpus which consists of ten speeches presented by foreign guests in the plenum of Romanian Parliament, between 2007 and 2013. We talk about European officials an...

This article analyzes the American presence in two journals of the Bucharest School of Sociology, as well as the information provided in these journals with regard to the American sociological models and their evolution. The data reviewed demonstrate not only a strong academic connection, but also an active cooperation and consistent exchange of ac...

Analyzes the US-American presence in two journals of the Bucharest School of Sociology between the two world wars, as well as the information provided by US articles with regard to the US-American sociological model and its developments. Pricopie's analysis suggests strong academic connections, cooperation, and consistent exchange of academic knowl...

From a discourse analysis standpoint, the contemporary administrativist approach and the discursive perspectives on the concept of “public interest” were brought together by Jacques Derrida (1967), as the deconstruction of discourse provides the researcher with the opportunity to identify the meaning or the purpose of discourse, having as starting...

This study aims at identifying, starting from the questions and response variants proposed in the questionnaires of the Eurobarometer surveys, the forms of operationalisation of the concepts specific for the scientific research, that have been used from 1973 until 2011, without a preliminary preparation of the sample investigated in this respect. T...

Transversal studies on emerging European communication are quite few in number, while the approach to the policies and strategies launched by the European Commission ever since 2005 is still very specific or contingent. Our aim is to conduct a comprehensive study on what are still the early stages of the concept of 'emerging European communication'...

This paper aims to identify the strategic dimensions of the francophone mission of the scientific journal Revue de Transylvanie, between 1934 and 1944. Our perspective focuses on an editorial analysis of the programmatic discourse, having as scientific purpose a favorable national and European will, made possible to the end of the First World War....

This aim of this paper is to evaluate the implications of the building of temporality of expectation of Europe on the structure of nowadays journalistic discourses. After January 1, 2007, an important series of national and European political events points out the discursive representation of actuality. This study allows a better delimitation of th...

Afin de déconstruire la réalité politique et sociale de la Roumanie à partir d’une série de discours analyses, nous nous proposons d’étudier tout d’abord le sujet de l’intégration européenne qui constitue la thématique privilégiée des présidentielles en 2004. Et cela car la campagne électorale roumaine de 2004 coïncide à la période la plus « chaude...

This study aims to identify the indicators of the transformation of journalism as profession in the Republic of Moldova. It focuses on the practitioners'anticipation of a stable professional configuration and identity in the context of a potential liberalization of the media market in this country.

http://www.oecd.org/site/worldforum06/39562127.pdf

https://doi.org/10.4000/communication.302