Elena Negrea-Busuioc
Biographic Data
| ID | 4104271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Negrea-Busuioc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Negrea-Busuioc |
| SIGNATURE | NEGREA-BUSUIOC E |
| AFFILIATIONS | National School of Political Science and Public Administration |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5590-6852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Heart is a Pump, a Dollhouse, a Car or a Ship: How Students Use Conventional and Spontaneously Generated Creative Metaphors to Understand Biology Concepts
This paper explores how Romanian secondary education students use metaphors to understand the heart and circulatory system. Building on Cameron’s (2003) Goal-directed-Interactive Think Aloud (GITA) protocol, adapted for dyadic interviews, we pursue a twofold goal: (1) to evaluate the effectiveness of conventional and novel metaphors presented in biology textbooks and educational videos in enhancing students’ understanding of the heart’s structure…
Rethinking Public Opinion Studies in the Digital Era: Expert Discourse on the Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of Public Opinion Research
The goal of our study was twofold. First, we aimed to recognize how concepts, factors, and artificial intelligence-driven challenges in research on public opinion vary across experts with different experiences in the field. Second, we examined how experts envision the future of the field in the evolving media landscape. We invited public opinion scholars from more than 30 countries to participate in the survey. Findings showed that public opinion…
Resilient Adaptation or Reclaimed Agency? Ukrainian Women’s Negotiation of Integration in Romania
This paper adds to the growing body of literature investigating Ukrainian women refugees’ framing of their experience as forced migrants. Using semi-structured interviews with 11 Ukrainian women refugees currently residing in Romania, we explore how these women navigate the complexities of adaptation and integration in Romania. We examine their perception of refugee status, negotiation of belonging to various transnational social spaces and probl…
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war
The concern about misinformation in the public space has become more worrisome during the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. In this context, we investigate what make people correctly recognize accurate information and detect misinformation about the war at the beginning of the conflict in Romania, a bordering country. By means of a national survey ( N = 1006) conducted in April-May 2022, we looked for predictors of people’s capacity of na…
Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification: Humor and the trivialization of politics in satirical memes
Political memes are ubiquitous in social media. They are easy to make, alter and spread, and they are a funny way of sanctioning politicians. This paper seeks to analyze the satirical memes targeting Viorica Dăncilă and to explore the extent to which such memes could be considered a manifestation of political trivialization rather than of criticism. Drawing on qualitative methods of text and image analysis we ask: (1) how is humor constructed in …
Romanians’ willingness to comply with restrictive measures during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from an online survey
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken many countries worldwide and forced them to take unprecedented public health restrictive measures to stop the spread of coronavirus infections. For any disease containment strategy to be successful, public willingness to comply with the restrictive measures is essential. In this paper, we report findings from a national online survey on the public perception of the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania. We show that indivi…
They can’t fool me, but they can fool the others!’ Third person effect and fake news detection
The aftermath of the 2016 US Presidential Elections and the Brexit campaign in Europe have opened the floor to heated debates about fake news and the dangers that these phenomena pose to elections and to democracy, in general. Despite a growing body of scholarly literature on fake news and its close relatives misinformation, disinformation or, more encompassing, communication and information disorders, few studies have so far attempted to empiric…
Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in Sixteen European Countries
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research has neglected the differential effects of populist communication on the Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, previous research mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper…
Sports metaphors and women’s empowerment in the 2014 European election campaign in Romania
This paper examines sports metaphors as symbolic resources for electoral discourse, focusing on both their conventional nature and their strategic value in delivering the political message. It takes the form of a case study analyzing the multimodal realizations of the ‘EuroChampion’ sports metaphor in five posters used by the Romanian Liberal Party in the 2014 campaign for the European Parliament. We argue that the ‘EuroChampion’ metaphor and the…
When ‘ seeking love is travel by bus ’: Deliberate metaphors, stories and humor in a Romanian song
Drawing on a song by Romanian blues rock singer and satirist Alexandru Andrieș, Transport în comun, we argue that both listeners and metaphor researchers must sometimes assume that a metaphor has been deliberately used and transformed in order to make sense of a metaphorical story, particularly when the metaphor is embedded in a particular cultural and political context. On the face of it Transport în comun is a song about seeking love, but it op…
“ Now everyone knows I’m a serial killer ”: Spontaneous intentionality in conversational metaphor and story-telling
Drawing on data from a series of informal conversations about public safety and police-community relations, we distinguish between a speaker’s generalized communicative intentions with respect to metaphor use and story-telling, based on what Chafe (1994, p. 145) calls “unifying ideas that persist in semiactive consciousness” and the spontaneous intentions that arise within the short-term focus or spotlight of consciousness and guide the productio…
Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in Sixteen European Countries
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research has neglected the differential effects of populist communication on the Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, previous research mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper…
They can’t fool me, but they can fool the others!’ Third person effect and fake news detection
The aftermath of the 2016 US Presidential Elections and the Brexit campaign in Europe have opened the floor to heated debates about fake news and the dangers that these phenomena pose to elections and to democracy, in general. Despite a growing body of scholarly literature on fake news and its close relatives misinformation, disinformation or, more encompassing, communication and information disorders, few studies have so far attempted to empiric…
Resilient Adaptation or Reclaimed Agency? Ukrainian Women’s Negotiation of Integration in Romania
This paper adds to the growing body of literature investigating Ukrainian women refugees’ framing of their experience as forced migrants. Using semi-structured interviews with 11 Ukrainian women refugees currently residing in Romania, we explore how these women navigate the complexities of adaptation and integration in Romania. We examine their perception of refugee status, negotiation of belonging to various transnational social spaces and probl…
“ Now everyone knows I’m a serial killer ”: Spontaneous intentionality in conversational metaphor and story-telling
Drawing on data from a series of informal conversations about public safety and police-community relations, we distinguish between a speaker’s generalized communicative intentions with respect to metaphor use and story-telling, based on what Chafe (1994, p. 145) calls “unifying ideas that persist in semiactive consciousness” and the spontaneous intentions that arise within the short-term focus or spotlight of consciousness and guide the productio…
When ‘ seeking love is travel by bus ’: Deliberate metaphors, stories and humor in a Romanian song
Drawing on a song by Romanian blues rock singer and satirist Alexandru Andrieș, Transport în comun, we argue that both listeners and metaphor researchers must sometimes assume that a metaphor has been deliberately used and transformed in order to make sense of a metaphorical story, particularly when the metaphor is embedded in a particular cultural and political context. On the face of it Transport în comun is a song about seeking love, but it op…
Sports metaphors and women’s empowerment in the 2014 European election campaign in Romania
This paper examines sports metaphors as symbolic resources for electoral discourse, focusing on both their conventional nature and their strategic value in delivering the political message. It takes the form of a case study analyzing the multimodal realizations of the ‘EuroChampion’ sports metaphor in five posters used by the Romanian Liberal Party in the 2014 campaign for the European Parliament. We argue that the ‘EuroChampion’ metaphor and the…
Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in Sixteen European Countries
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research has neglected the differential effects of populist communication on the Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, previous research mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper…
They can’t fool me, but they can fool the others!’ Third person effect and fake news detection
The aftermath of the 2016 US Presidential Elections and the Brexit campaign in Europe have opened the floor to heated debates about fake news and the dangers that these phenomena pose to elections and to democracy, in general. Despite a growing body of scholarly literature on fake news and its close relatives misinformation, disinformation or, more encompassing, communication and information disorders, few studies have so far attempted to empiric…
Romanians’ willingness to comply with restrictive measures during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from an online survey
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken many countries worldwide and forced them to take unprecedented public health restrictive measures to stop the spread of coronavirus infections. For any disease containment strategy to be successful, public willingness to comply with the restrictive measures is essential. In this paper, we report findings from a national online survey on the public perception of the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania. We show that indivi…
The Heart is a Pump, a Dollhouse, a Car or a Ship: How Students Use Conventional and Spontaneously Generated Creative Metaphors to Understand Biology Concepts
This paper explores how Romanian secondary education students use metaphors to understand the heart and circulatory system. Building on Cameron’s (2003) Goal-directed-Interactive Think Aloud (GITA) protocol, adapted for dyadic interviews, we pursue a twofold goal: (1) to evaluate the effectiveness of conventional and novel metaphors presented in biology textbooks and educational videos in enhancing students’ understanding of the heart’s structure…
Rethinking Public Opinion Studies in the Digital Era: Expert Discourse on the Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of Public Opinion Research
The goal of our study was twofold. First, we aimed to recognize how concepts, factors, and artificial intelligence-driven challenges in research on public opinion vary across experts with different experiences in the field. Second, we examined how experts envision the future of the field in the evolving media landscape. We invited public opinion scholars from more than 30 countries to participate in the survey. Findings showed that public opinion…
Resilient Adaptation or Reclaimed Agency? Ukrainian Women’s Negotiation of Integration in Romania
This paper adds to the growing body of literature investigating Ukrainian women refugees’ framing of their experience as forced migrants. Using semi-structured interviews with 11 Ukrainian women refugees currently residing in Romania, we explore how these women navigate the complexities of adaptation and integration in Romania. We examine their perception of refugee status, negotiation of belonging to various transnational social spaces and probl…
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war
The concern about misinformation in the public space has become more worrisome during the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. In this context, we investigate what make people correctly recognize accurate information and detect misinformation about the war at the beginning of the conflict in Romania, a bordering country. By means of a national survey ( N = 1006) conducted in April-May 2022, we looked for predictors of people’s capacity of na…
Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification: Humor and the trivialization of politics in satirical memes
Political memes are ubiquitous in social media. They are easy to make, alter and spread, and they are a funny way of sanctioning politicians. This paper seeks to analyze the satirical memes targeting Viorica Dăncilă and to explore the extent to which such memes could be considered a manifestation of political trivialization rather than of criticism. Drawing on qualitative methods of text and image analysis we ask: (1) how is humor constructed in …
Political science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Metaphor (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Advertising (3 works)