Most recent conferences
Radu Meza
Assoc. Prof.
FSPAC, UBB
meza@fspac.ro
About me
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Latest anual update: 27th of April 2024
Radu Meza is part of the faculty at the Journalism and Digital Media Department since 2008. He graduated Computer Science and Journalism and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology with a thesis on the structure and dynamics of popular online networking systems. His research interests include media analysis, new digital media and computational methods in social sciences. In 2016 he became the coordinator of the first Digital Media Bachelor program in Romania. He is a member of the University Senate since 2012, and was elected Chair of the Committee for Curriculum for the 2020-2024 and 2024-2029 mandates. In 2021 he was elected Chair of the Journalism and Digital Media Department.
What I'm focusing on now
ONLINE INFORMATION DISORDERS, HATE SPEECH & DISINFORMATION
NARRATIVES, RITUAL AND EMOTIONALITY IN NEWS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
COMPUTATIONAL METHODS AND MACHINE LEARNING IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
Research
Most recent conferences
2023
Radu MEZA, Hope and Outrage in Eastern Europe: A Textual Analysis of Emotionality and Framing in the Romanian Online Media in the Context of the 2022 Schengen Area Expansion
ECREA Political Communication Section Conference, Berlin, Germany, September 2023
2019
Radu MEZA, Andreea MOGOȘ, Hanna-Orsolya VINCZE, Fickle crowds. Discursive Patterns of Media, Public Figures and Citizens on Social Media in Romania and Hungary
ECREA'S POLITICAL COMMUNICATION SECTION INTERIM CONFERENCE POLCOMM, Poznan, Poland, September 2019.
2019
Radu MEZA, Andreea MOGOȘ, Hanna-Orsolya VINCZE, Networked Antagonisms in Central and Eastern Europe. Hate Speech in Comments to News Media Facebook Posts in Romania and Hungary
5th World Journalism Education Congress, Paris, France, July 2019
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Radu MEZA, Andreea MOGOȘ, Hanna-Orsolya VINCZE, Taking Names. Patterns of Meaning and Stereotyping of Social Categories in Antagonistic Discourses on Social Media in Romania and Hungary
abstract Abstract Book 14th ESA Conference | Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging | 20-23 August
Most recent publications - articles, books etc.
2023
Meza, R., Mogoș, A., Prundaru, G. (2023). Idols of Promotion and Authenticity on TikTok. Media and Communication. 11 (4).
DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i4.7123
2023
Meza, R. (2023). Rhetorics of Hope and Outrage: Emotion and Cynicism in the Coverage the Schengen Accession. Media and Communication, 11(4).
DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i4.7137
2022
Meza, R. (2022). Cultura digitală după 1990: de la piraterie la spectacol în Corobca L., Panorama postcomunismului în România.
Polirom. 840-870
2021
Vincze, H. O., Mogoș, A. A., & Meza, R. M. (2021). Disparaging ‘the Assisted’: Shaming and Blaming Social Welfare Recipients in Romania and Hungary. In Reifová, I., Hájek, M. (Eds). Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe, Palgrave MacMillan.
ISBN-13 : 978-3030735425. 143-162.
Interests
- online hate speech and emotionalisation
- celebrity and popular culture in the digital media
- computational approaches for analyzing public discourse and media representations
- news and social media
- online information disorders
- online hate speech
- media and information literacy
- digital competence
- political communication
- online popular culture
- online celebrity
- internet memes
- fans, fandoms and participatory culture
- formal concept analysis
- semantic networks
- digital data analysis
- computational linguistics
- machine learning methods
Courses
Bachelor degree
Course
New Media Theory
Course
Media Analysis
Course
Web Content Management Systems.
Course
Film Studies
Masters degree
Course
New Media Culture
Course
Web Design
Doctorate degree
Course
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