Alina Bârgăoanu Explained

Alina Bârgăoanu
Birth Date:	21 April 1974
Nationality:	Romanian
Occupation:	Dean of the faculty of communication and public relations of SNSPA
Period:	2012–
Boards:	President of the board of the European Institute of Romania
Alma Mater:	National University of Theatrical and Cinematographic Art
Discipline:	Communication science European studies
Workplaces:	Școala Națională de Studii Politice și Administrative

Alina Bârgăoanu is a Romanian university professor and the dean of the faculty of communication and public relations of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest,^[1] of which she was the acting rector between 2012 and 2014.^[2] She is also the current chair of the board of the European Institute of Romania,^[3] a public institution that supports the government of Romania in its policy making as a member of the European Union. She is the holder of a Jean Monnet chair, and is the author or co-author of books and articles in the fields of communication, disinformation and European Union affairs.

Achievements

In April 2012 Alina Bargaoanu became the dean of the faculty of communication and public relations of SNSPA.^[4] Between December 2012 and December 2014, Alina Bargaoanu was the acting rector of this university, replacing Remus Pricopie, who was appointed minister of education of Romania. In October 2014 she was appointed president of the board of the European Institute of Romania,^[5] a public institution that provides expertise in EU affairs to the Romanian government, co-ordinates publications and training courses, and translates the Official Journal of the European Union. Since 2014, she is also chair of the temporary working group on Communication and European Public Sphere at ECREA, the European Communication Research and Education Association.^[6] In 2015, Alina Bargaoanu sponsored the award of the degree of doctor honoris causa by SNSPA to Simon Hix, Harold Laski professor of political science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and fellow of the British Academy.^{[7] [8]} In 2017, she sponsored the award of the degree of doctor honoris causa by SNSPA to Ian Goldin, professor at the University of Oxford and former director of the Oxford Martin School.^[9]

Alina Bargaoanu is the founder of the Center for EU Communication Studies from NUPSPA^[10] and of the online magazine Convorbiri Europene (www.convorbirieuropene.ro).^[11] She was also lecturer within the MBA programme "Process and Project Management" of Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (2011–2012).^[12] In December 2017, Bargaoanu was appointed an expert of the newly created European Union High Level Group on fake news and online disinformation.^[13] Between 20 October 2018 and 1 March 2019 she was a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.^[14] She is now a member of the advisory board of the European Digital Media Observatory and editor-in-chief of the Antifake newsletter (www.antifake.ro), a project funded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Bucharest office (https://www.gmfus.org/offices/bucharest).

Publications

Books

• Bârgăoanu, Alina, #Fakenews. Noua cursă a înarmării. Evrika, 2018.
• Bârgăoanu Alina, Raluca Buturoiu, and Loredana Radu, (eds.) Why Europe?: Narratives and Counter-narratives of European Integration. Peter Lang AG, 2017.
• Bârgăoanu, Alina, Loredana Radu, and Diego Varela, eds. United by or Against Euroscepticism? An Assessment of Public Attitudes towards Europe in the Context of the Crisis: An Assessment of Public Attitudes Towards Europe in the Context of the Crisis. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.^[15]
• Radu L., Bârgăoanu A., Corbu, N. (coord.) (2013). The Crisis of the European Union. Identity, Citizenship, and Solidarity Reassessed. București: comunicare.ro
• Bârgăoanu A., Negrea E. (2011). Comunicarea în Uniunea Europeană. Modele teoretice şi aspecte practice (eds.). București: comunicare.ro.
• Bârgăoanu A. (2011). Examenul Schengen. În căutarea sferei publice europene. București: comunicare.ro.
• Bârgăoanu A. (2009). Fondurile europene. Strategii de promovare şi utilizare. București: Tritonic.
• Dobrescu P., Bârgăoanu A., Corbu N. (2007). Istoria comunicării. București: comunicare.ro.
• Bârgăoanu A. (2006). Tirania actualității. O introducere în istoria și teoria ştirilor. București: Tritonic.
• Dobrescu P., Bârgăoanu A. (2003, 2001). Mass media şi societatea. București, Editura: comunicare.ro.
• Dobrescu P., Bârgăoanu A., (2002). Mass media: puterea fără contraputere, București: All.
• Dobrescu P., Bârgăoanu A., (2001). Geopolitica. București: comunicare.ro.

Articles/ Book chapters/ Conference papers

• Durach, F., Buturoiu, R., Craiu, D., Cazacu, C, Bârgăoanu, A. (2022). "Crisis of confidence in vaccination and the role of social media". European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, Volume 36, Pages 84-92, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpn.2021.12.009
• Bârgăoanu, A., Corbu, N., Buturoiu, R. and Durach, F. (2021), "Managing the COVID-19 pandemic: predictors of trust in institutions in Romania", Kybernetes, https://doi.org/10.1108/K-12-2020-0913.
• Corbu, N., Bârgăoanu, A., Durach, F., Udrea, G. (2021). "Fake News Going Viral: The Mediating Effect of Negative Emotions". Media Literacy and Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, December
• Volintiru, C., Bârgăoanu, B., Ștefan, G., Durach, F. (2021). "East-West Divide in the European Union: Legacy or Developmental Failure?" Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations, vol. 21, no. 1, June 2021
• Corbu, N., Bârgăoanu, A., Buturoiu, R., Ștefăniță, O. (2020). ”Does fake news lead to more engaging effects on social media? Evidence from Romania”. Communications. The European Journal of Communication Research, Published online, October 22, 2020 (ISSN 0341-2059, e-ISSN 1613-4087)
• Cheregi, B.F., Bârgăoanu, A. (2020). "Branding Romania in the Age of Disruption. Technology as a Soft Power Instrument". Journal of Media Research, vol. 13, no. 3 (38), 5-30, ISSN 1844-8887
• Cheregi, B. F., Bârgăoanu, A. (2020). "Branding Romania as a <>. Nation Branding in Times of Digital Disruption, Redefining Community in Intercultural Context, vol. 9, no. 1, 295-303, ISSN 2285-2689.
• Bârgăoanu, A., Durach, F. (2020). Clashing Views between the Old and New Members of the European Union. A Socio-economic Divide Narrated as a Political One. In Abraham, F. (ed.). 1989 Annus Mirabilis. Three decades after: desires, achievements, future. București: comunicare.ro, pp. 303–332.
• Bârgăoanu, A., Durach, F., Buturoiu, R. (2020). Reshaping the European Public Sphere: Preliminary Insights into the European Backlash in Central and Eastern Europe. In Winiarska-Brodowska, M. (2020). In Search of a European Public Sphere: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 90-115.
• Bârgăoanu, A., & Durach, F. (2020). The COVID-19 Infodemic – An Accelerated Version of the New Digital Ecosystem. Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations, 22(2), 125–129. (ISSN 1454-8100 | e-ISSN 2344-5440).
• Durach, F., Bârgăoanu, A., Nastasiu, C. (2020). Tackling Disinformation: EU Regulation of the Digital Space. Romanian Journal of European Affairs, vol. 20, no 1 (June), pp. 5–20. ISSN 1582-8271, 1841427
• Bârgăoanu, A. (2019). “The Fight over the Liberal Order as an Instance of the Transatlantic Divide”. Romanian Journal of European Affairs, Vol. 19, No.1, June
• Bârgăoanu, A., Radu, L. (2019). "The austerity discourse of the Romanian economic-political elites. Neoliberal or (pseudo)European?”. In Kate Power, Tanweer Ali, Eva Lebdušková (eds). Discourse Analysis and Austerity. Critical Studies from Economics and Linguistics, 1st Edition, Routledge
• Bârgăoanu, A., Durach, F. (2019). “Emerging media – the new . How much technology and how much old-fashioned psychology?”. In Iancu, I., Balaban, D.C., Hosu, I. (eds.) Communication. Strategic perspectives. Cluj Napoca: Accent publishing house
• Bârgăoanu, A. & Radu, L. (2018). “Fake news or Disinformation 2.0? Some insights into Romanians’ digital behaviour”. Romanian Journal of European Affairs, Vol 18, No. 1

See also

• Christophe Leclercq
• Claes de Vreese
• Sonia Livingstone
• Miguel Poiares Maduro
• Clare Melford

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alina Bargaoanu. Școala Națională de Studii Politice și Administrative. 8 October 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171008230859/http://www.snspa.ro/academic/profesori/facultatea-de-comunicare-si-relatii-publice/83-alina-bargaoanu. 8 October 2017. dead.
2. Web site: Alina Bargaoanu. Facultatea de Comunicare şi Relaţii Publice. 8 October 2017.
3. Web site: Organisation Chart of the European Institute of Romania. European Institute of Romania. 8 October 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171008181346/http://www.ier.ro/webfm_send/470130. 8 October 2017. dead.
4. Web site: Alina Bargaoanu este noul decan al Facultatii de Comunicare din cadrul SNSPA. Wall-Street. 4 April 2012 . 30 October 2017.
5. Web site: Alina Bargaoanu's – Curriculum vitae Europass. https://web.archive.org/web/20180117192233/http://www.comunicare.ro/uploads/Profesori/Alina%20Birgaoanu/CV%5bro%5d%20Alina%20Bargaoanu_2016.pdf. dead. January 17, 2018. Facultatea de Comunicare şi Relaţii Publice. 9 October 2017.
6. Web site: Temporary working groups: Communication and the European Public Sphere. ECREA online. 10 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171210231808/http://www.ecrea.eu/divisions/twg/id/30. 10 December 2017. dead.
7. Web site: Laudatio by Alina Bârgăoanu, Vice-Rector of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, for awarding the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to Professor Simon Hix, London School of Economics. Școala Naţională de Studii Politice și Administrative. 1 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171202052536/http://www.snspa.ro/images/fisiere/snspa/despre/dhc/simon-hix/Laudatio_S_Hix_final.pdf. 2 December 2017. dead.
8. Web site: SNSPA – DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA – SIMON HIX. Agerpress Foto.
9. Web site: Transmitem live de la ceremonia de decernare a titlului de Doctor Honoris Causa profesorului Ian Goldin, de la University of Oxford. Laudatio, Prof. Univ. Dr. Alina Bargaoanu. Facultatea de Comunicare și Relații Publice, SNSPA București. 1 December 2017.
10. Web site: Team | Center for EU Communication Studies.
11. Web site: Despre noi.
12. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180117192233/http://www.comunicare.ro/uploads/Profesori/Alina%20Birgaoanu/CV%5bro%5d%20Alina%20Bargaoanu_2016.pdf . 2018-01-17 . dead .
13. Web site: Shaping Europe's digital future | Shaping Europe's digital future.
14. Web site: Alina Bârgăoanu . Center for European Studies at Harvard University . 2 March 2019.
15. Web site: United by or Against Euroscepticism? An Assessment of Public Attitudes towards Europe in the Context of the Crisis. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 9 October 2017.