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Adela Fofiu, Ph.D.
Dr. Adela Fofiu holds her PhD in sociology. She is a trainer, activist and lecturer, having acquired experience in working with people within a diversity of environments – from academia to local emergent communities.
Her PhD dissertation – defended in 2012 – addresses apocalyptic narratives on the blog of the Romanian New Right in an interdisciplinary approach. Written entirely in English, the thesis combines the social psychology of emotions with mass media studies and theories in the interpretation and description of the fatalist far rightist discourse developed online.
Currently, Dr. Fofiu is affiliated to the Babes-Bolyai University. She began her research and teaching activity within the Journalism Department and the Institute for Global Studies in October 2012.
Her interests include identity dynamics, globalization, social movements, intergroup relations, emotions, new communication technologies and social communication.
Dr. Adela Fofiu
Adela Fofiu este de profesie sociolog. Deţine titlul de doctor în sociologie, este formator, activist şi lector, bucurându-se de o variată experienţă în lucrul cu oamenii în medii din cele mai diverse – de la cel academic, la cel profesional, până la comunităţi locale emergente.
Teza de doctorat acoperă discursuri apocaliptice pe blogul Noii Drepte într-o abordare itnerdisciplinară. Scrisă integral în limba engleză, lucrarea împleteşte psihologia socială a emoţiilor cu teorii şi studii mass media în descrierea şi interpretarea imaginarului fatalist dezvoltat în discursul de extremă dreaptă online.
În prezent, Dr. Fofiu este afiliată Universităţii Babeş-Bolyai, unde activează începând din octombrie 2012 în cercetare şi predare academică în cadrul Departamentului de Jurnalism şi al Institutului de Studii Globale.
Printre temele de interes se regăsesc dinamica identităţii, globalizarea, mişcările sociale, relaţiile intergrupale, emoţiile, noile tehnologii comunicaţionale şi comunicarea socială.
Cursuri
Introduction in Social Sciences
Metode de cercetare media
Fofiu, Adela – Apocalypse on the net. Extreme Threat and the Majority-Minority Relationship on the Romanian Internet
Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes – Volume 451
Year of Publication: 2013
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 181 pp., 11 fig. col., 1 fig. b/w
ISBN 978-3-631-62981-9 pb. (Softcover)
Discipline – Sociology
Book synopsis – The apocalypse can bring upon the world either termination, either change. By exploring how emotions, ethnic or national belonging and digital technologies work together in constructing an apocalypticizing national self, this book offers a complex analysis of far rightist apocalyptic narratives. Content analysis performed on the blog of the New Right, a far rightist organization from Romania, unveils a fascinating imaginary of fear and hate toward otherness, of strong beliefs that the world, our world, is ending through its transformation into something else – something that we know and, at the same time, do not know and loath. The social psychology of emotions, belonging and identity, the sociology of globalization and studies on cyberhate are intertwined into the exploration and interpretation of on-line apocalyptic narratives that imagine the Gypsification and Hungarization of Romania and the Islamization of Europe as irreversible change.
Contents – Panic on the web: cyberhate, identity and fear – Cyberhate and Romania’s national history – Apocalypticism on the New Right blog – The New Right cyberhate strategies – The spread of the apocalyptic cyberhate – The end is nigh.
