Irina Diana Mădroane
Biographic Data
| ID | 203580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irina Diana Mădroane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irina Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mădroane |
| SIGNATURE | MĂDROANE I D |
| AFFILIATIONS | West University of Timişoara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7978-0374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Recontextualizing and Centering Underrepresented Voices in Nonprofit Investigative News Discourse. An Illustration from the US
The article employs the concept of recontextualization in conjunction with those of voice and media(tion) dispositive to investigate the centering of underrepresented voices in nonprofit, investigative, digitally native news discourse. In line with critical discourse analysis, recontextualization is viewed as the process of “casting into discourse” social events and practices, and thereby transforming them, where discourse is in a dialectical rel…
Public Discourses about/by Women Migrants and Refugees from Central and Eastern Europe
The article, an extensive introduction to this issue’s special section on public discourses about/by women migrants from Central and Eastern Europe, outlines the current scholarly debates as well as the main theoretical and methodological approaches to gender in the context of transnational migration practices, with a focus on labour migration, forced migration and exile. It discusses the core aspects of an intersectionality-driven, social constr…
The enactment of rhetorical citizenship in a cultural journalism podcast
The article examines the enactment of rhetorical citizenship in a cultural journalism podcast that seeks (1) to raise awareness of the exploitation and abuses against intra-EU migrant caregivers (predominantly women) and (2) to reinvest with credibility and agency a woman activist with a contested personal history. The analytical framework draws upon semio-pragmatics, multimodal discourse studies and rhetorical criticism in order to show how rhet…
An Argumentative Approach to “Framing”. Framing, Deliberation and Action in an Environmental Conflict
This paper proposes a new theorization of the concept of “framing”, in which argumentation has a central role. When decision-making is involved, to frame an issue is to offer the audience a salient and thus potentially overriding premise in a deliberative process that can ground decision and action. The analysis focuses on the Roşia Montană case, a conflict over policy that developed over the years into an environmental social movement and, in Se…
Diasporic media and counterpublics
The article examines three Romanian diasporic publications in the UK, aiming to identify the formation of a diasporic counterpublic in opposition to mainstream anti-EU immigration stances, during and after the 2016 referendum. Drawing upon (critical) discourse analysis, argumentation theory and rhetoric, it proposes a discursive operationalisation of the concept of counterpublic, employed to analyse the articulation of exclusion and the expressio…
Should I Stay or Should I Go?” The Promise of Europe and Female Identity in Francesca (2009)
Starting from the premise that intra-EU migration has generated a repertoire of representations, narratives and stances in Romanian public imagination, within a transnational context, the present article explores an area that has attracted little scholarly attention to date: Romanian New Cinema films that tackle this theme. The analysis focuses on “Francescaˮ (Bobby Păunescu, 2009), a film centred on a female character who is on the verge of deci…
Debating Migration as a Public Problem
Debating Migration As a Public Problem
Symbolic (Self-)Identifications of Care Workers in Diasporic Media
The article looks at a corpus of personal stories told by Romanian migrant women who work as caregivers in Italy or by journalists, from the women’s perspective, in two Romanian diasporic publications. It aims to gain an insight into the ways the narrators use the diasporic media space to (re)situate themselves in relation to the home and host societies. A methodological framework that incorporates elements from narrative analysis and critical di…
Media engagement in the transnational social field
The article examines the construction of transnational migrant agency in the media of the sending country, starting from the contestation and reinterpretation in the Romanian press of a British documentary about Romanian migrants in the UK. It proposes an analytical framework that allows insights into the ways in which the national mainstream media engage in transnational dynamics. The findings show that Romanian journalists construct a European …
Power relations, agency and discourse in transnational social fields
Scholars in transnationalism studies, a diverse and dynamic research field, emphasise the need for transdisciplinarity and diversification of empirical areas and issues, in order to cast light on the particularities of transnational practices, agency and emerging power relations. Starting from the premise that discourse is constitutive of transnational social fields, the articles in this special issue propose the integration of discourse analysis…
Mediating Public Issues in Romanian Broadcast Talk
The article examines emerging practices of personalization in political talk shows on Romanian television. Our interest lies in the reconfiguration of the role of critical journalist, as performed by talk show hosts on private TV channels, in the context of increasing commercialization and instrumentalization of the Romanian media in postcommunism. This development consists of the strategic use of personalization, achieved through the talk show d…
The media construction of remittances and transnational social ties
The study explores through a ‘transnational lens’ the Romanian media construction of remitting practices and identities within a wider debate on circular migration. It uses a broad definition of remittances (financial, sociocultural and political) and is concerned with the role of the Romanian press in articulating migrant–non-migrant relationships and laying the ground for informed policy debates. The methodology consists of qualitative corpus a…
The Role of Multiculturalism in the Discursive Rescaling of an Eastern European City
Eastern European cities have been going through complex transformations in the wake of the revolutionary year 1989. Their restructuring has been marked by an abrupt transition from the centralized economy and totalitarianism of the communist period to the free market economy of new capitalism and democracy, under pressures for regionalization and globalization. The article looks at how City Hall texts (available in print and in digitalized form o…
Media engagement in the transnational social field
The article examines the construction of transnational migrant agency in the media of the sending country, starting from the contestation and reinterpretation in the Romanian press of a British documentary about Romanian migrants in the UK. It proposes an analytical framework that allows insights into the ways in which the national mainstream media engage in transnational dynamics. The findings show that Romanian journalists construct a European …
The enactment of rhetorical citizenship in a cultural journalism podcast
The article examines the enactment of rhetorical citizenship in a cultural journalism podcast that seeks (1) to raise awareness of the exploitation and abuses against intra-EU migrant caregivers (predominantly women) and (2) to reinvest with credibility and agency a woman activist with a contested personal history. The analytical framework draws upon semio-pragmatics, multimodal discourse studies and rhetorical criticism in order to show how rhet…
Mediating Public Issues in Romanian Broadcast Talk
The article examines emerging practices of personalization in political talk shows on Romanian television. Our interest lies in the reconfiguration of the role of critical journalist, as performed by talk show hosts on private TV channels, in the context of increasing commercialization and instrumentalization of the Romanian media in postcommunism. This development consists of the strategic use of personalization, achieved through the talk show d…
Power relations, agency and discourse in transnational social fields
Scholars in transnationalism studies, a diverse and dynamic research field, emphasise the need for transdisciplinarity and diversification of empirical areas and issues, in order to cast light on the particularities of transnational practices, agency and emerging power relations. Starting from the premise that discourse is constitutive of transnational social fields, the articles in this special issue propose the integration of discourse analysis…
The Role of Multiculturalism in the Discursive Rescaling of an Eastern European City
Eastern European cities have been going through complex transformations in the wake of the revolutionary year 1989. Their restructuring has been marked by an abrupt transition from the centralized economy and totalitarianism of the communist period to the free market economy of new capitalism and democracy, under pressures for regionalization and globalization. The article looks at how City Hall texts (available in print and in digitalized form o…
An Argumentative Approach to “Framing”. Framing, Deliberation and Action in an Environmental Conflict
This paper proposes a new theorization of the concept of “framing”, in which argumentation has a central role. When decision-making is involved, to frame an issue is to offer the audience a salient and thus potentially overriding premise in a deliberative process that can ground decision and action. The analysis focuses on the Roşia Montană case, a conflict over policy that developed over the years into an environmental social movement and, in Se…
Diasporic media and counterpublics
The article examines three Romanian diasporic publications in the UK, aiming to identify the formation of a diasporic counterpublic in opposition to mainstream anti-EU immigration stances, during and after the 2016 referendum. Drawing upon (critical) discourse analysis, argumentation theory and rhetoric, it proposes a discursive operationalisation of the concept of counterpublic, employed to analyse the articulation of exclusion and the expressio…
The Role of Multiculturalism in the Discursive Rescaling of an Eastern European City
Eastern European cities have been going through complex transformations in the wake of the revolutionary year 1989. Their restructuring has been marked by an abrupt transition from the centralized economy and totalitarianism of the communist period to the free market economy of new capitalism and democracy, under pressures for regionalization and globalization. The article looks at how City Hall texts (available in print and in digitalized form o…
The media construction of remittances and transnational social ties
The study explores through a ‘transnational lens’ the Romanian media construction of remitting practices and identities within a wider debate on circular migration. It uses a broad definition of remittances (financial, sociocultural and political) and is concerned with the role of the Romanian press in articulating migrant–non-migrant relationships and laying the ground for informed policy debates. The methodology consists of qualitative corpus a…
Symbolic (Self-)Identifications of Care Workers in Diasporic Media
The article looks at a corpus of personal stories told by Romanian migrant women who work as caregivers in Italy or by journalists, from the women’s perspective, in two Romanian diasporic publications. It aims to gain an insight into the ways the narrators use the diasporic media space to (re)situate themselves in relation to the home and host societies. A methodological framework that incorporates elements from narrative analysis and critical di…
Media engagement in the transnational social field
The article examines the construction of transnational migrant agency in the media of the sending country, starting from the contestation and reinterpretation in the Romanian press of a British documentary about Romanian migrants in the UK. It proposes an analytical framework that allows insights into the ways in which the national mainstream media engage in transnational dynamics. The findings show that Romanian journalists construct a European …
Power relations, agency and discourse in transnational social fields
Scholars in transnationalism studies, a diverse and dynamic research field, emphasise the need for transdisciplinarity and diversification of empirical areas and issues, in order to cast light on the particularities of transnational practices, agency and emerging power relations. Starting from the premise that discourse is constitutive of transnational social fields, the articles in this special issue propose the integration of discourse analysis…
Mediating Public Issues in Romanian Broadcast Talk
The article examines emerging practices of personalization in political talk shows on Romanian television. Our interest lies in the reconfiguration of the role of critical journalist, as performed by talk show hosts on private TV channels, in the context of increasing commercialization and instrumentalization of the Romanian media in postcommunism. This development consists of the strategic use of personalization, achieved through the talk show d…
Debating Migration as a Public Problem
Debating Migration As a Public Problem
Should I Stay or Should I Go?” The Promise of Europe and Female Identity in Francesca (2009)
Starting from the premise that intra-EU migration has generated a repertoire of representations, narratives and stances in Romanian public imagination, within a transnational context, the present article explores an area that has attracted little scholarly attention to date: Romanian New Cinema films that tackle this theme. The analysis focuses on “Francescaˮ (Bobby Păunescu, 2009), a film centred on a female character who is on the verge of deci…
An Argumentative Approach to “Framing”. Framing, Deliberation and Action in an Environmental Conflict
This paper proposes a new theorization of the concept of “framing”, in which argumentation has a central role. When decision-making is involved, to frame an issue is to offer the audience a salient and thus potentially overriding premise in a deliberative process that can ground decision and action. The analysis focuses on the Roşia Montană case, a conflict over policy that developed over the years into an environmental social movement and, in Se…
Diasporic media and counterpublics
The article examines three Romanian diasporic publications in the UK, aiming to identify the formation of a diasporic counterpublic in opposition to mainstream anti-EU immigration stances, during and after the 2016 referendum. Drawing upon (critical) discourse analysis, argumentation theory and rhetoric, it proposes a discursive operationalisation of the concept of counterpublic, employed to analyse the articulation of exclusion and the expressio…
The enactment of rhetorical citizenship in a cultural journalism podcast
The article examines the enactment of rhetorical citizenship in a cultural journalism podcast that seeks (1) to raise awareness of the exploitation and abuses against intra-EU migrant caregivers (predominantly women) and (2) to reinvest with credibility and agency a woman activist with a contested personal history. The analytical framework draws upon semio-pragmatics, multimodal discourse studies and rhetorical criticism in order to show how rhet…
Public Discourses about/by Women Migrants and Refugees from Central and Eastern Europe
The article, an extensive introduction to this issue’s special section on public discourses about/by women migrants from Central and Eastern Europe, outlines the current scholarly debates as well as the main theoretical and methodological approaches to gender in the context of transnational migration practices, with a focus on labour migration, forced migration and exile. It discusses the core aspects of an intersectionality-driven, social constr…
Recontextualizing and Centering Underrepresented Voices in Nonprofit Investigative News Discourse. An Illustration from the US
The article employs the concept of recontextualization in conjunction with those of voice and media(tion) dispositive to investigate the centering of underrepresented voices in nonprofit, investigative, digitally native news discourse. In line with critical discourse analysis, recontextualization is viewed as the process of “casting into discourse” social events and practices, and thereby transforming them, where discourse is in a dialectical rel…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Agency (philosophy (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)