Program
May 30, 2025
08:30 Profile Writing Competition
Room T1, Chair: dr. Oana Ometa
09:00 Media & Society Student Conference
Parallel Panels Session:
- Room T1: Romanian Panels – Chair: dr. Flavia Țăran
- Room T2: Romanian & English Panels – Chair: dr. Sînziana Jurău
- Room T3: Hungarian Panel – Chair: dr. Gábor Győrffy
☕🥤11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
Room T1/T2
11:15 Focus Photo Exhibition
Room T1/T2, Chair: dr. Rareș Beuran
12:15 Media & Society Student Conference Award Ceremony
Room T1/T2
🏅Câștigătorii Panelului în Română (1)
Juriu: dr. Oana Ometa, dr. George Prundaru, dr. Mihai Lisei
- Cea mai bună cercetare: GABRIEL DĂSCĂLEANU, Construcția identității populiste a lui George Simion în Social Media: O analiză a conținutului și a reacțiilor publicului înaintea alegerilor prezidențiale din noiembrie 2024
- Cea mai bună prezentare: CONSTANTIN NEGHINĂ, Analiza discursului în presa online rusă și ucraineană cu privire la războiul din Ucraina
- Cel mai promițător subiect: ELENA-BIANCA PÎNCĂLĂBESCU, Sănătatea mintală pe TikTok și specificul conținutului care promovează autodiagnosticare și autovindecareas
- Mențiune: MARIA-ALEXIA CHIORAN, Reprezentarea inteligenței artificiale în media
🏅Câștigătorii Panelului în Română (2)
Juriu: dr. Andreea Mogoș, dr. Paul Boca
- Cea mai bună cercetare: GEORGIANA NEGOIAȘ, Etică și legislație în reprezentarea criminalilor în mass-media
- Cea mai bună prezentare: CĂTĂLIN TODEA, Existența nostalgică. Cum a devenit nostalgia un mod de a fi în lume
- Cel mai promițător subiect: MIHAI-TUDOR RUȚAȘ, Reflectarea politicienilor în cadrul campaniilor electorale 2024
- Mențiune: ALINA-MARICICA PETRIC, Ilustrarea comunităților rurale în emisiunile de televiziune, prevederi etice și aspecte legale
🏅Winners English Panel
- Best Research: IULIA MUREȘAN, Hybris: The Media Representation of Women’s Mental Anguish in Grey’s Anatomy and House M.D. and The Unrelenting Rotary Between the Patients and Medical Professionals
- Best Presentation: XENIA-IULIA CARAMETE, #2ndroundback: Mapping the multimodal discourse of supporters for Romanian far-right populist presidential candidate
- Most Promising Topic: XENIA-IULIA CARAMETE, #2ndroundback: Mapping the multimodal discourse of supporters for Romanian far-right populist presidential candidate
- Honorable Mention: COSMINA-ELENA IVAN, From Campus to Screen: An Analysis of Visual Design Features and Functionalities on Central and Eastern European University Websites.
12:30 V for Visual
Room T1/T2, Chair: dr. Constantin Trofin
🍕14:00-14:30 Lunch Break – Pizza
Room T1/T2
14:30 Audio Storytelling Awards
Room T1/T2, Chair: dr. Cristina Nistor-Beuran
☕🥤15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Room T1/T2
16:00 Médianapok Conference
Room T1/T2
May 31, 2025
09:30 Médianapok Conference
Room T1/T2
🍕☕🥤14:00 Coffee /Lunch Break – Pizza
Room T1/T2
15:00 Médianapok Conference
Room T1/T2
The Department of Journalism and Digital Media is organizing the 2025 edition of Media Culture Days on May 30 2025. Presentations will be selected by the organizers of each section (contact below). The deadline for submissions & selections is May 23 2025
We welcome Communication Sciences students to participate in a series of events with presentations in English, Romanian, Hungarian or German. The Journalism and Digital Media Department at Babeș-Bolyai University’s College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences invites submissions for the 2025 students’ competitions.
Bachelor and Master Students in Communication Sciences and related fields from Romanian Universities may apply by May 23 2025. The selected submissions will be presented in the events which will be scheduled on May 30, as part of the FSPAC Students’ Conference. The events will take place in Cluj-Napoca, in the FSPAC buildings on Minerilor St. 85 and Traian Moșoiu St. 71.
Media and Society Student Conference
(May 30st, 2025: T1/T2, Minerilor 85)
Contact: Dr. Flavia Țăran, flavia.taran@fspac.ro, Dr. Sînziana Jurău, jurau@fspac.ro
The Journalism and Digital Media Department at the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca invites you to submit research projects for the “Media and Society: Models, Representations and Current Phenomena” Student Conference. This annual conference celebrates its 18th edition and brings together Bachelor’s and Master’s students in English, Romanian, Hungarian, and German language panels to present their research projects, receive feedback and discuss opportunities for further research. All students with research interests in Journalism, Communication, and Digital Media are encouraged to participate.
Profile Writing
(May 30st, 2025: T1/T2, Minerilor 85)
Contact: dr. Oana Ometa, ometa@fspac.ro
Inspirational stories, stories of hope, stories of resilience. Nowadays, media outlets exploit this journalistic genre because characters’ emotions and beliefs allow the audience to take part in the story. The aim of this competition is to encourage students to explore the background and character of a particular person. The focus should be on aspects of the subject’s personal or professional life. Students are invited to submit their long-form journalism pieces, which fall under the portrait category (interview or feature). We accept submissions in Romanian and in English.
Audio Storytelling
(May 30st, 2025: T1/T2, Minerilor 85)
Contact: dr. Cristina Nistor, cristina.nistor@fspac.ro
Audio storytelling is reinventing itself in the digital age. The production of audio content has been developing and fascinating the listeners for already a century – from radio news reporting to creative narrative podcasts defined by scholars as a cultural practice of producing and consuming digital sound content. Students are invited to submit their audio / radio production produced within the last year and participate at the news features, podcasts and other innovative digital audio productions categories, that are to be judged by professionals and faculty staff. The awarding ceremony will also host a short debate on digital radio industry.
Focus
(May 30st, 2025: T1/T2, Minerilor 85)
Contact: dr. Rareș Beuran, beuran@fspac.ro
The photo contest featuring the year’s best student work in photojournalism – for categories NEWS PHOTO, STREET PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTO STORY, PHOTO PORTRAIT, NATURE and TRAVEL – will announce the winners in the presence of professional photojournalists and professors of photography. The awarding ceremony will be followed by a short debate that will explore the digital transformation in photojournalism when it comes to the production, the distribution and the consumption of photography. Students who are interested to participate in the competition are kindly asked to submit photos taken during courses or extra-curricular projects in the last year. Images sent must be at a crop size of 20 × 30 cm, a resolution of 300 DPI and a minimum of 3000 × 2000 pixels, and can be taken with a camera or with a mobile phone. Together with the photos, student’s contact details (name, surname, name of the University, email address and telephone number) and photo captions (presentation of the character and the story behind the image) are also required for registration in the competition.