Tenured Researchers

Associated Researchers and Contributors

• PhD. Nicolae Perpelea, University of Bucharest - Faculty of Letters & Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences
• Monica Barbovschi (Ph.D, Centre for Social and Educational Research (CSER), Dublin Institute of Technology)
• Prof. PhD. Brad Bushman, Margaret Hall and Robert Randal Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication, School of Communication, The Ohio State University (USA)
• PhD. Bianca Balea, sociologist, Fundatia Noi Orizonturi
• Prof. PhD. Nicolas Pélissier, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice
• Associate prof. PhD. Ileana Rotaru, West University of Timișoara, Timișo
• Associate prof. PhD Gyöngyvér Tőkés, Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca

Research Topics

   Media and the construction of public problems, political communication in the digital culture, television and new media, media and migration, social ethics and aesthetics in new media /AI, children’s use of the Internet, digital technology use in education, parental mediation practices, digital heritage, sociology of culture, art(s) and new technologies of information and communication, digital humanities / Humanités numériques

Brief Description

   The members of the Sociology of Communication and Public Space Laboratory (SocioCom) have initiated or participated throughout the time in many interdisciplinary research projects that analysis the information and communication practices specific to the digital society, the media construction of the public problems, and the social phenomena that emerge from the digital culture (such as the platformization). The SocioCom Lab brings together researchers from sociology, communication sciences, social psychology, media studies and discourse analysis. Lab members routinely participate in basic research as well as applied research projects that aim to make positive interventions in society. Three research directions have been followed with predilection: (1) the analysis of journalistic practices in the heterogeneous and hybrid communication sphere; (2) the understanding of children’s digital practices and their social implications; and (3) the analysis of the role of the new technologies of information and communication in redefining social, cultural, educational policies and practices connected to cultural and artistic heritage.

Research Programs:

• 2025 - Political communication in contexts of crisis. The analysis of public discourses in the Romanian media sphere
• 2025- Romanian children’s participation in cyberbullying and cyberhate. An EU Kids Online 2020 dataset analysis
• 2025- National cultural and artistic heritage and the digital environment. Recent history, cultural memory and the role of new information and communication technologies in social and cultural practices
  

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