Ramona Hosu works in the Department of Journalism and Digital Media, FSPAC, BBU, Cluj-Napoca. She is a member of the Doctoral School of Political and Communication Sciences and she coordinates doctoral projects in the field of Communication Sciences. She won a postdoctoral research project in Human and Social Sciences/ Communication Studies. She holds a doctoral degree in Philology (American literature), a master’s degree in American Studies and a bachelor’s degree in Philology (English and Romanian language and literature). Her research directions center on the representations and the construction of identities in media culture.
- Media Representations of Identities (Gender/ Race/ Ethnicity/ Sexuality/ Religion/Nationality/ Locus/ Generation etc.)
- Opinion Writing, Argumentation and Rhetoric in the British/ the American Press
- Postmodern/ Digimodern Media Culture and the Construction of Meanings
- British and/ or American Media and Ideological Discourse
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TOPICS FOR THE GRADUATION PAPER
- Media Representations of Identities (Gender/ Race/ Ethnicity/ Sexuality/ Religion/Nationality/ Locus/ Generation etc.)
- Opinion Writing, Argumentation and Rhetoric in the British/ the American Press
- Postmodern/ Digimodern Media Culture and the Construction of Meanings
- British and/ or American Media and Ideological Discourse
Ramona Hosu – The Postmodern Individual. British and American Illustrations, Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj-Napoca, 2012, ISBN 978-973-595-411-6
The book tries to intersect concepts like image, representation, art, fiction, identity, value in today’s cultural context starting from a set of theories that delineate them in order to define what is ‘characteristically postmodern’, in the first chapter, and focusing on some ‘portrayals’/ illustrations of such an individual, as contoured by and in some postmodern British and American novels and their filmic versions. Such an ‘autonomous’ individual faces the sense of heteronomy, of alienation, of loss of reference in a world that consists of no stability but that is, at the same time, dominated by generalized conformism in acknowledged uniformity and dissipation of authenticity. In this alienation, the individual enters a labyrinthine search for meaning, as if in a blind parable of becoming, which implies continuous moving from centre to margins and vice versa, turning him into a misfit and a(n) (anti)hero, with the reader’s contribution, who is manipulated into placing himself into the mainstream or outside it while projecting his ethics.