M Olguta Vilceanu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6754355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Olguta Vilceanu |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Olguta |
| FAMILY NAME | Vilceanu |
| SIGNATURE | VILCEANU M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9418-1935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Yeah, I’ve been immunized
During a team press conference in August 2021, then-Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers claimed he had been ‘immunized,’ which implied he had taken a COVID-19 vaccine. He later admitted he was not vaccinated and sparked a debate in the news and popular media. This study builds on the epistemology of ignorance, science controversy, sports mythmaking, and fake news to explore news coverage of professional athletes, the COVID-19 pandemic, an…
Parasocial Intimacy, Change, and Nostalgia in Podcast Listener Reviews
As the medium of podcasting reaches maturity, exploring the evolving nature of parasocial intimacy, nostalgia, and change is crucial. With the podcasting industry increasingly focused on financial viability, listener loyalty and nostalgia are critical components in podcast audience studies. Listener reviews are an integral part of this research. This study enriches podcast audience studies by investigating the connection between the parasocial re…
Growing a Sustainable Fashion Business by Leveraging the Student-Entrepreneur Learning Exchange
This case study presents an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching and practice of environmental aspects in small businesses, using field experience, consumer behavior research, and real-world entrepreneurship. A practitioner team consisting of an instructor, a consultant, and a business client set up a semester-long experience for students to engage in reciprocal consulting. The instructional process emphasizes business functions, classroom …
Performing Culture and Problematizing Identity through “ Anything for Selena ”
Podcasts cover a wide range of topics and genres that can be created and developed for diverse and niche audiences. Using an inductive approach, we explore the connections and insights the podcast Anything for Selena offers about parasociality, celebrity grieving, and diasporic Latina/o/x identity, in the context of Selena as a brand. Themes follow acts of performing culture, posthumous branding, aspirational identity, and parasocial grieving acr…
Just hanging with my friends”
There is a need to delve into major subgroups among U.S. Latina/o/xs and identify emerging patterns in their understanding and consumption of new media. This study used six small-group interviews to explore the fluidity of parasocial dynamics with podcasts among young Latina/o/x podcast listeners experiencing the COVID-19 lockdown. Recent literature has focused on the parasocial nature of dynamics, relationships, and emotional connections listene…
Official Chinese media representations of US business, 1979–2011
How have three decades of change in Chinese society, business, and politics influenced its official media coverage of emerging partnerships and interactions with US business? This question was explored through text mining and semantic network analysis of 929 articles in China Daily and Xinhua News Service, from 1979 through 2011. The articles were examined via cluster analysis (grouping news stories with similar coverage) and factor analysis (rev…
Just hanging with my friends”
There is a need to delve into major subgroups among U.S. Latina/o/xs and identify emerging patterns in their understanding and consumption of new media. This study used six small-group interviews to explore the fluidity of parasocial dynamics with podcasts among young Latina/o/x podcast listeners experiencing the COVID-19 lockdown. Recent literature has focused on the parasocial nature of dynamics, relationships, and emotional connections listene…
Official Chinese media representations of US business, 1979–2011
How have three decades of change in Chinese society, business, and politics influenced its official media coverage of emerging partnerships and interactions with US business? This question was explored through text mining and semantic network analysis of 929 articles in China Daily and Xinhua News Service, from 1979 through 2011. The articles were examined via cluster analysis (grouping news stories with similar coverage) and factor analysis (rev…
Official Chinese media representations of US business, 1979–2011
How have three decades of change in Chinese society, business, and politics influenced its official media coverage of emerging partnerships and interactions with US business? This question was explored through text mining and semantic network analysis of 929 articles in China Daily and Xinhua News Service, from 1979 through 2011. The articles were examined via cluster analysis (grouping news stories with similar coverage) and factor analysis (rev…
Just hanging with my friends”
There is a need to delve into major subgroups among U.S. Latina/o/xs and identify emerging patterns in their understanding and consumption of new media. This study used six small-group interviews to explore the fluidity of parasocial dynamics with podcasts among young Latina/o/x podcast listeners experiencing the COVID-19 lockdown. Recent literature has focused on the parasocial nature of dynamics, relationships, and emotional connections listene…
Performing Culture and Problematizing Identity through “ Anything for Selena ”
Podcasts cover a wide range of topics and genres that can be created and developed for diverse and niche audiences. Using an inductive approach, we explore the connections and insights the podcast Anything for Selena offers about parasociality, celebrity grieving, and diasporic Latina/o/x identity, in the context of Selena as a brand. Themes follow acts of performing culture, posthumous branding, aspirational identity, and parasocial grieving acr…
Yeah, I’ve been immunized
During a team press conference in August 2021, then-Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers claimed he had been ‘immunized,’ which implied he had taken a COVID-19 vaccine. He later admitted he was not vaccinated and sparked a debate in the news and popular media. This study builds on the epistemology of ignorance, science controversy, sports mythmaking, and fake news to explore news coverage of professional athletes, the COVID-19 pandemic, an…
Parasocial Intimacy, Change, and Nostalgia in Podcast Listener Reviews
As the medium of podcasting reaches maturity, exploring the evolving nature of parasocial intimacy, nostalgia, and change is crucial. With the podcasting industry increasingly focused on financial viability, listener loyalty and nostalgia are critical components in podcast audience studies. Listener reviews are an integral part of this research. This study enriches podcast audience studies by investigating the connection between the parasocial re…
Growing a Sustainable Fashion Business by Leveraging the Student-Entrepreneur Learning Exchange
This case study presents an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching and practice of environmental aspects in small businesses, using field experience, consumer behavior research, and real-world entrepreneurship. A practitioner team consisting of an instructor, a consultant, and a business client set up a semester-long experience for students to engage in reciprocal consulting. The instructional process emphasizes business functions, classroom …
Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)