Researchers

Camelia BECIU is senior researcher with the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy (in the laboratory Sociology of communication and public space) and associate professor with the University of Bucharest. In 1999 she got her Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest with a thesis on A Discourse-analytical approach of the electoral sphere. The 1996 presidential election. Her main research interests include political communication, the sociology of public sphere and discourse analysis. Camelia Beciu is the author of the following books: Comunicarea politică (Political Communication), (2002) and Politica discursivă. Practici Politice într-o campanie electorală (Discursive Politics: Political Practices in an Election Campaign), (2000). She edited (with Nicolae Perpelea) Europe and the Public Space. Communication Practices, Representations, Emotional Climate, Editura Academiei, Bucharest, 2007.

Recent papers:

• Le 8 mars roumain – un concept publicitaire in Femmes et medias. Le 8 mars a la « une » - Une comparaison internationale, Sciences de la société, Presse Universitaire du Mirail, Toulouse, 2007; 

• Roumanie – Entre paternalisme ludique et confession gratifiante in Les débats publics dans les télévisions européennes (sous la dir. de Guy Lochard), L’Harmattan, Paris, 2006, p. 171-185,  ISBN : 2-296-00009-6

• Presse roumaine : rassurer sur le processus d'adhésion en cours in Hermes 47, Evénements internationaux, regards nationaux, Editions de CNRS, Paris, 2006;

• Construcţia mediatică a problemelor publice: schimbarea socială şi adaptarea la noile contexte europene in Revista Română de Sociologie, nr.3- 4/2006, pp.317-336;

• La construction de l’ « Europe » dans l’espace public roumain. Traitements médiatiques et modes de généralisation in Europe in Its Making – A Unifying Perception on Europe (coord. Silvia Marton), Institutul European, Iasi, 2005;

• L’influence du discours identitaire sur la sensibilité politique des électeurs indécis in New Europe College Publications, Year book, Bucharest, 2005, p.15-63;