The International Conference "De l'Ouest à l'Est: Métamorphoses des Discours en Europe"/"From Wes... more The International Conference "De l'Ouest à l'Est: Métamorphoses des Discours en Europe"/"From West to East: Metamorphoses of Discourses in Europe", took place in Bucharest on 24-25 October 2019. The Conference was organised by the University of Bucharest and the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy, under the aegis of the Observatory on Discourses and Counter-Discourses related to the European Construction (France) and was supported by The Regional Francophone Centre of Advances Research in Social Sciences (CEREFREA) in Bucharest. More than 60 participants from 10 countries participated to the debates related to the European discourse transformation within an interdisciplinary approach.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oct 1, 2013
The theoretical framework of this paper uses the key concepts provided by communication theories,... more The theoretical framework of this paper uses the key concepts provided by communication theories, communication criticism in the European context, and public sphere approaches. The context analysis focuses on the existence of a significant number of critics who lament the lack of real communication policies in the European Union and tailored strategies to promote intercultural communication in Europe. The methodological perspective is one based on discourse analysis. The study is focused on a corpus of 41 semi-structured interviews, whose subjects are graduate students at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Public Administration and Public Affairs. Based on the selected corpus, the research aims are to establish: a. how European values are represented and communicated by a homogeneous and educated group; b. whether subjects believe that European values and communication practices operate in Romanian public administration activities ; c. what perceptions the subjects have of the dynamics of democratic values in the EU. The premises of our research are that: a) European topics (in the broad sense) seem very uncommon in public discourse ; b) Romanian citizens do not seem to be connected to European themes and legislation. The study postulates that there is a 'lack of communication' in Habermas' sense of the term, and a poor connection with European topics of debate. The methodological approach is focused on identifying the most important recent topics of debate in Europe, using scientific literature on local-global, European controversies and social communication topics as source. These will form a basis for the creation of a discourse analysis grid , which will be applied to the 41 semi-structured interviews making up the corpus. The results of the analysis may lead us to a general conclusion regarding features of Romanian public discourse and the current context that builds public sphere opened by the European model.
Romanian Journal of Military Medicine, May 1, 2022
"Motivation for the choice of topic: The covid-19 pandemic has restructured the entire healt... more "Motivation for the choice of topic: The covid-19 pandemic has restructured the entire health care system. As systems of care were overwhelmed, many health professionals in related professional areas became increasingly involved in providing medical aid. The present paper aims to highlight a comparative analysis between two psychiatric wards of the same hospital, with qualified medical staff, with similar levels of competence, one of the wards caring for patients exclusively with major psychiatric pathologies, and the other patients with associated SARS-COV2 infection. The objective is to highlight links between different variables, such as motivation versus amotivation, anxiety and/or burnout, work experience, and resilience, all of which also relate to decisions to accept and provide quality medical care to this particular category of patients. Methodology Application of specific questionnaires and scales on a group of 60 medical workers in two psychiatric wards, one of which was declared a ward working with psychiatric patients with covid. Results: Resident doctors, then nurses, followed by hospital attendants, attending physicians and lastly psychologists, cope in descending order with professional stress related to covid-19 anxiety. This is high and correlates positively with depression and burn-out - which, in the case of young people, risks demotivating them to the point of destroying their future plans and the hope of successful professional self-esteem. Conclusions: The covid-19 pandemic in a psychiatric hospital has raised anxieties even among medical staff, who have moved from somatic to psychiatric care over the years, and the comorbidity of mental illness and SARS-COV2 infection has raised particular problems. Among staff, anxiety, risk of depression, burnout, with depletion of compensatory resources have increased. Resilience calls for the use of mature defence mechanisms and professional experience protects against anxiety and burnout. "
This paper is a case study that will be conducted on different discourses circulating on the occa... more This paper is a case study that will be conducted on different discourses circulating on the occasion of the public protests in Bucharest (January-February 2017), following the Romanian government's decision to amend the provisions of the Criminal Code that would have led to the decriminalization of the abuse of authority. The corpora used include the slogans of the events as well as the texts published in the independent online platforms in the same period. The objectives are to identify and analyze the different themes of fear and how the mise en discours of the language of emotions is conducted, in order to draw the contemporary benchmarks of citizens’ fears in Romania. Our study considers fear as a socio-discursive concept, which is organically related to emotion. Otherwise, fear — as an abstract concept — finds its area of influence within discourses or its universe of origin, leading to its social character and ideological function. As an enunciative operation, fear serves...
The theoretical framework of this paper uses the key concepts provided by communication theories,... more The theoretical framework of this paper uses the key concepts provided by communication theories, communication criticism in the European context, and public sphere approaches. The context analysis focuses on the existence of a significant number of critics who lament the lack of real communication policies in the European Union and tailored strategies to promote intercultural communication in Europe. The methodological perspective is one based on discourse analysis. The study is focused on a corpus of 41 semi-structured interviews, whose subjects are graduate students at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Public Administration and Public Affairs. Based on the selected corpus, the research aims are to establish: a. how European values are represented and communicated by a homogeneous and educated group; b. whether subjects believe that European values and communication practices operate in Romanian public administration activities ; c. what perceptions the subjects have of the dynamics of democratic values in the EU. The premises of our research are that: a) European topics (in the broad sense) seem very uncommon in public discourse ; b) Romanian citizens do not seem to be connected to European themes and legislation. The study postulates that there is a 'lack of communication' in Habermas' sense of the term, and a poor connection with European topics of debate. The methodological approach is focused on identifying the most important recent topics of debate in Europe, using scientific literature on local-global, European controversies and social communication topics as source. These will form a basis for the creation of a discourse analysis grid , which will be applied to the 41 semi-structured interviews making up the corpus. The results of the analysis may lead us to a general conclusion regarding features of Romanian public discourse and the current context that builds public sphere opened by the European model.
Journal of Educational Sciences & Psychology, 2021
Health is not only a public good, but also a means of prosperity, and a strategically important g... more Health is not only a public good, but also a means of prosperity, and a strategically important goal in the policy of any state. In this article we discuss how Japan has dealt with epidemics over time, the evolution of the Japanese healthcare system especially related to patient safety and life expectancy, and the current confrontation with the Covid-19 pandemic, including the Covid-19 vaccination in a difficult and controversial global context. Japan sparked imagination and curiosity long ago. It is interesting to follow the specific cultural approach, on the one hand tributary to extreme traditionalism, and on the other hand to modernization and technologization at the highest level visible especially in urban spaces applied in many Japanese fields of activity, including the health system.
This study examines the discursive practices of media "transition" from Romania 80'... more This study examines the discursive practices of media "transition" from Romania 80's and early 90's in order to identify a pattern of the ideological discourse of transition. The pragmatic analysis is in line with recent studies that discuss media discourses in post-communist countries or "in transition" which led to new approaches and nuances of classical theories of the public sphere which we consider very important in the context of contemporary Romanian social discourse. The analysis of how to make the transition from "wooden language" to "informative discourse" of the Romanian media discourse focuses on intentionality describe in text linguistic as discursive component able to realize thematic choices, media discourse and attitude of media instances during the media process production. We also consider intentionality because it introduces in the discourse the component of journalist personality, with all that this may include: att...
This study aims at emphasizing the institutional transformations that occurred in the public envi... more This study aims at emphasizing the institutional transformations that occurred in the public environment following the events in December 1989 in Romania, focusing on the dismantling of mechanisms that marked the transition from the national-communist propaganda discourse to the informative discourse, which laid the foundation of the public sphere in post-totalitarian Romania. The hypothesis is that Romanian media was slow in abandoning the communist press model, which explains the manichaeist discourse of nowadays media, the involvement of politics in media business and, last but not least, the extremely poor market-the poorest in Eastern Europe, as showed by the latest studies. The analysis has two components: the context analysis (historical, political, and ideological) and the media discourse analysis, in line with the view of certain authors (C. Sparks) with respect to the transitions in Eastern Europe and the role the media played in these processes. The discourse procedures of the totalitarian language were emphasized by investigating a corpus formed of the main publications of the printed press before and after 1989.
Revista Romana De Jurnalism Si Comunicare Romanian Journal of Journalism and Communication, 2010
This paper proposes an analysis pattern of the existence forms of the public sphere in the totali... more This paper proposes an analysis pattern of the existence forms of the public sphere in the totalitarian pe riod from Romania. The analysis took into consideration essential reference in shaping the notion of public sphere: public communication and mass communication, public authority and the public exercise of reason. The scope of the research is to offer scientific significance to an array of testimonies from that period, regarding the situation of the individual and the society in the late years of Romanian national communism. The motivation of this research appeared after having observed and researched an impressive number of memoirs. From a subjective point of view, I think that the abundance of testimonies is not enough to thoroughly comprehend the phenomena. Only an analytic model can provide consistency to the subjective pluralism which is found in autobiographies, journals, literary manifestos and oral testimonies.
The present study aims to emphasize the extent to which modern management principles are known an... more The present study aims to emphasize the extent to which modern management principles are known and applied in the Romanian public institutions. We also aim to identify a system of values that set a pattern of the organizational culture in the system of public institutions. The investigation technique we used is the questionnaire and the method we chose is the sociological survey. According to the standards of research methodology and in order to obtain accurate results, we have pre-tested the research tools in conditions similar to those of the study itself. In this respect, the present study will test the validity of the questionnaire on a group of 41 subjects, master’s students in a specialized program at the University of Bucharest, with the purpose of undertaking the sociological survey. The pilot study conclusions will allow the methodological framework of the sociological survey to refine and adapt the models of international analysis to the actual Romanian context.
The International Conference "De l'Ouest à l'Est: Métamorphoses des Discours en Europe"/"From Wes... more The International Conference "De l'Ouest à l'Est: Métamorphoses des Discours en Europe"/"From West to East: Metamorphoses of Discourses in Europe", took place in Bucharest on 24-25 October 2019. The Conference was organised by the University of Bucharest and the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy, under the aegis of the Observatory on Discourses and Counter-Discourses related to the European Construction (France) and was supported by The Regional Francophone Centre of Advances Research in Social Sciences (CEREFREA) in Bucharest. More than 60 participants from 10 countries participated to the debates related to the European discourse transformation within an interdisciplinary approach.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oct 1, 2013
The theoretical framework of this paper uses the key concepts provided by communication theories,... more The theoretical framework of this paper uses the key concepts provided by communication theories, communication criticism in the European context, and public sphere approaches. The context analysis focuses on the existence of a significant number of critics who lament the lack of real communication policies in the European Union and tailored strategies to promote intercultural communication in Europe. The methodological perspective is one based on discourse analysis. The study is focused on a corpus of 41 semi-structured interviews, whose subjects are graduate students at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Public Administration and Public Affairs. Based on the selected corpus, the research aims are to establish: a. how European values are represented and communicated by a homogeneous and educated group; b. whether subjects believe that European values and communication practices operate in Romanian public administration activities ; c. what perceptions the subjects have of the dynamics of democratic values in the EU. The premises of our research are that: a) European topics (in the broad sense) seem very uncommon in public discourse ; b) Romanian citizens do not seem to be connected to European themes and legislation. The study postulates that there is a 'lack of communication' in Habermas' sense of the term, and a poor connection with European topics of debate. The methodological approach is focused on identifying the most important recent topics of debate in Europe, using scientific literature on local-global, European controversies and social communication topics as source. These will form a basis for the creation of a discourse analysis grid , which will be applied to the 41 semi-structured interviews making up the corpus. The results of the analysis may lead us to a general conclusion regarding features of Romanian public discourse and the current context that builds public sphere opened by the European model.
Romanian Journal of Military Medicine, May 1, 2022
"Motivation for the choice of topic: The covid-19 pandemic has restructured the entire healt... more "Motivation for the choice of topic: The covid-19 pandemic has restructured the entire health care system. As systems of care were overwhelmed, many health professionals in related professional areas became increasingly involved in providing medical aid. The present paper aims to highlight a comparative analysis between two psychiatric wards of the same hospital, with qualified medical staff, with similar levels of competence, one of the wards caring for patients exclusively with major psychiatric pathologies, and the other patients with associated SARS-COV2 infection. The objective is to highlight links between different variables, such as motivation versus amotivation, anxiety and/or burnout, work experience, and resilience, all of which also relate to decisions to accept and provide quality medical care to this particular category of patients. Methodology Application of specific questionnaires and scales on a group of 60 medical workers in two psychiatric wards, one of which was declared a ward working with psychiatric patients with covid. Results: Resident doctors, then nurses, followed by hospital attendants, attending physicians and lastly psychologists, cope in descending order with professional stress related to covid-19 anxiety. This is high and correlates positively with depression and burn-out - which, in the case of young people, risks demotivating them to the point of destroying their future plans and the hope of successful professional self-esteem. Conclusions: The covid-19 pandemic in a psychiatric hospital has raised anxieties even among medical staff, who have moved from somatic to psychiatric care over the years, and the comorbidity of mental illness and SARS-COV2 infection has raised particular problems. Among staff, anxiety, risk of depression, burnout, with depletion of compensatory resources have increased. Resilience calls for the use of mature defence mechanisms and professional experience protects against anxiety and burnout. "
This paper is a case study that will be conducted on different discourses circulating on the occa... more This paper is a case study that will be conducted on different discourses circulating on the occasion of the public protests in Bucharest (January-February 2017), following the Romanian government's decision to amend the provisions of the Criminal Code that would have led to the decriminalization of the abuse of authority. The corpora used include the slogans of the events as well as the texts published in the independent online platforms in the same period. The objectives are to identify and analyze the different themes of fear and how the mise en discours of the language of emotions is conducted, in order to draw the contemporary benchmarks of citizens’ fears in Romania. Our study considers fear as a socio-discursive concept, which is organically related to emotion. Otherwise, fear — as an abstract concept — finds its area of influence within discourses or its universe of origin, leading to its social character and ideological function. As an enunciative operation, fear serves...
The theoretical framework of this paper uses the key concepts provided by communication theories,... more The theoretical framework of this paper uses the key concepts provided by communication theories, communication criticism in the European context, and public sphere approaches. The context analysis focuses on the existence of a significant number of critics who lament the lack of real communication policies in the European Union and tailored strategies to promote intercultural communication in Europe. The methodological perspective is one based on discourse analysis. The study is focused on a corpus of 41 semi-structured interviews, whose subjects are graduate students at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Public Administration and Public Affairs. Based on the selected corpus, the research aims are to establish: a. how European values are represented and communicated by a homogeneous and educated group; b. whether subjects believe that European values and communication practices operate in Romanian public administration activities ; c. what perceptions the subjects have of the dynamics of democratic values in the EU. The premises of our research are that: a) European topics (in the broad sense) seem very uncommon in public discourse ; b) Romanian citizens do not seem to be connected to European themes and legislation. The study postulates that there is a 'lack of communication' in Habermas' sense of the term, and a poor connection with European topics of debate. The methodological approach is focused on identifying the most important recent topics of debate in Europe, using scientific literature on local-global, European controversies and social communication topics as source. These will form a basis for the creation of a discourse analysis grid , which will be applied to the 41 semi-structured interviews making up the corpus. The results of the analysis may lead us to a general conclusion regarding features of Romanian public discourse and the current context that builds public sphere opened by the European model.
Journal of Educational Sciences & Psychology, 2021
Health is not only a public good, but also a means of prosperity, and a strategically important g... more Health is not only a public good, but also a means of prosperity, and a strategically important goal in the policy of any state. In this article we discuss how Japan has dealt with epidemics over time, the evolution of the Japanese healthcare system especially related to patient safety and life expectancy, and the current confrontation with the Covid-19 pandemic, including the Covid-19 vaccination in a difficult and controversial global context. Japan sparked imagination and curiosity long ago. It is interesting to follow the specific cultural approach, on the one hand tributary to extreme traditionalism, and on the other hand to modernization and technologization at the highest level visible especially in urban spaces applied in many Japanese fields of activity, including the health system.
This study examines the discursive practices of media "transition" from Romania 80'... more This study examines the discursive practices of media "transition" from Romania 80's and early 90's in order to identify a pattern of the ideological discourse of transition. The pragmatic analysis is in line with recent studies that discuss media discourses in post-communist countries or "in transition" which led to new approaches and nuances of classical theories of the public sphere which we consider very important in the context of contemporary Romanian social discourse. The analysis of how to make the transition from "wooden language" to "informative discourse" of the Romanian media discourse focuses on intentionality describe in text linguistic as discursive component able to realize thematic choices, media discourse and attitude of media instances during the media process production. We also consider intentionality because it introduces in the discourse the component of journalist personality, with all that this may include: att...
This study aims at emphasizing the institutional transformations that occurred in the public envi... more This study aims at emphasizing the institutional transformations that occurred in the public environment following the events in December 1989 in Romania, focusing on the dismantling of mechanisms that marked the transition from the national-communist propaganda discourse to the informative discourse, which laid the foundation of the public sphere in post-totalitarian Romania. The hypothesis is that Romanian media was slow in abandoning the communist press model, which explains the manichaeist discourse of nowadays media, the involvement of politics in media business and, last but not least, the extremely poor market-the poorest in Eastern Europe, as showed by the latest studies. The analysis has two components: the context analysis (historical, political, and ideological) and the media discourse analysis, in line with the view of certain authors (C. Sparks) with respect to the transitions in Eastern Europe and the role the media played in these processes. The discourse procedures of the totalitarian language were emphasized by investigating a corpus formed of the main publications of the printed press before and after 1989.
Revista Romana De Jurnalism Si Comunicare Romanian Journal of Journalism and Communication, 2010
This paper proposes an analysis pattern of the existence forms of the public sphere in the totali... more This paper proposes an analysis pattern of the existence forms of the public sphere in the totalitarian pe riod from Romania. The analysis took into consideration essential reference in shaping the notion of public sphere: public communication and mass communication, public authority and the public exercise of reason. The scope of the research is to offer scientific significance to an array of testimonies from that period, regarding the situation of the individual and the society in the late years of Romanian national communism. The motivation of this research appeared after having observed and researched an impressive number of memoirs. From a subjective point of view, I think that the abundance of testimonies is not enough to thoroughly comprehend the phenomena. Only an analytic model can provide consistency to the subjective pluralism which is found in autobiographies, journals, literary manifestos and oral testimonies.
The present study aims to emphasize the extent to which modern management principles are known an... more The present study aims to emphasize the extent to which modern management principles are known and applied in the Romanian public institutions. We also aim to identify a system of values that set a pattern of the organizational culture in the system of public institutions. The investigation technique we used is the questionnaire and the method we chose is the sociological survey. According to the standards of research methodology and in order to obtain accurate results, we have pre-tested the research tools in conditions similar to those of the study itself. In this respect, the present study will test the validity of the questionnaire on a group of 41 subjects, master’s students in a specialized program at the University of Bucharest, with the purpose of undertaking the sociological survey. The pilot study conclusions will allow the methodological framework of the sociological survey to refine and adapt the models of international analysis to the actual Romanian context.
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