Author: grant.corecon@ulbsibiu.ro
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Adolescents’ Perception of the War inUkraine on Social Media: A Researchers’ Night Experiment
Adolescents increasingly learn about geopolitics through social media feeds optimized for engagement rather than accuracy. During Researchers’ Night, we piloted a rapid, skills-based intervention aimed at improving Romanian teens’ judgments of Russia–Ukraine war headlines. Participants completed a brief pretest survey and rated a mix of verified and fabricated headlines. They then received a short lesson…
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Why definitions matter: Legal and terminological perspectives on war
Since CORECON explores the narratives, discourses, and interpretive frameworks that shape the public understanding of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, this post looks at the terminological and legal dimensions of war. The way we define war is not only a matter of law but also of media framing and public reception. Concepts like “war,“ “armed conflict,“ “hostilities,“…
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Participants’ Reflections from CORECON 2025 Conference
The CORECON 2025 conference in Sibiu, Romania (July 9–11) brought together scholars from across Europe and beyond in order to reflect on how language, media, and culture mediate the Russian-Ukrainian war (more on the details of the conference concept, keynotes, presentations and participants here) This post offers a complementary perspective: a collective narrative built from…
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Framing “victory” in the coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian war. An interview based on CORECON findings
Andrii Yaroshchuk is a PhD candidate in Communication at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona who took part in the CORECON Conference in early July 2025 and found interesting parallels between his research and the project’s findings. This blogpost reproduces some excerpts from an expert interview he conducted with CORECON research director prof. Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, specifically…
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The CORECON Team at the 3rd Edition of CILIDI in Valencia
A part of the CORECON project team participated in the third edition of CILIDI (International Conference on Digital Linguistics), held in Valencia on June 26-27, 2025. Aligned with one of the conference’s core themes – the intersection of technology and discourse analysis – Simina-Maria Terian, Monica Borș, Denisa-Maria Bâlc, Iulia-Maria Ticărău and David Morariu delivered…
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Scholarly highlights of the CORECON conference on July 9-11, 2025
On July 9-11, 2025, University of Lucian Blaga of Sibiu hosted the CORECON key event – the project-related international conference, whose theme was Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Mediation of Russian-Ukrainian War: Language, Representation, Society, Culture. In comparison to other conferences, its theme was relatively narrow in scope; however, the conference aimed at opening up mediated…
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CORECON contribution to Res Rhetorica journal: Releasing a thematic issue on “Mediated Rhetoric of Recent Conflicts” (June 2025)
This blogpost is an adaptation of the introduction to the thematic issue entitled “Mediated Rhetoric of Recent Conflicts” released in June 2025 as issue 2 of volume 12 of Res Rhetorica – a Web-of-Science and Scopus-indexed journal of the Polish Rhetoric Society. The blogpost explains the motivation for the issue and presents its most interesting…
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Using AI in qualitative research: Insights from CORECON-piloted analytic protocols
This blogpost is devoted to exemplifying how it is possible to ethically and productively use AI-powered tools in order to enhance analytic protocols for qualitative analyses of media materials. AI-powered enhancements designed for annotating, coding and analyzing textual data are now part of commercial versions of qualitative analysis software packages such as Atlas.ti or NVivo.…
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The Frontiers of Discourse: Media, War, and Identity in Crisis Contexts
The conference entitled Discourse Across Cultures was held at Transilvania University of Brașov on March 21-22, focusing on two key words: discourse and culture. The focus of this event was on cross-cultural discourse patterns, as well as on specific communicative practices within cultures and offered participation opportunities to researchers interested in diverse research areas: linguistics,…