Author: grant.corecon@ulbsibiu.ro
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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,…
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Outreach: Disseminating CORECON’s preliminary results and involving students and practitioners.
One of CORECON’s prospective lasting impacts is to raise language awareness of war reporting which then enables critical media literacy and to sensitize journalists to some of the traps of click-driven news mediation. Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska discussed these issues during a recent visit at University of Valencia in Spain. The question of how war is represented…
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Two CORECON presentations during Second Annual FORTHEM Conference.
The Second FORTHEM Conference – Connecting Science and Society – provided a valuable platform for academic exchange on variety of pressing issues. Among the diverse talks, two CORECON presentations explored how war coverage and media representations shape public perceptions and democratic resilience. In one speech, presenters BÂLC Denisa-Maria and TICĂRĂU Iulia-Maria examined the role of…
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The uses of topic modeling in CORECON: Potentials and challenges
Topic modeling is an umbrella term used to denote a host of semi-automated or fully automated corpus linguistic methods that aim to map the content of texts by identifying dominant themes. When driven by an algorithm that is trained in either a supervised or unsupervised manner on a dataset, the method makes it possible to…