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Mr. Nicolae-Sorin Drăgan

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Researcher - UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA, FARMACIE, STIINTE SI TEHNOLOGIE "GEORGE EMIL PALADE" DIN TARGU MURES

Researcher | Teaching staff | Scientific reviewer | Consultant

Ph.D. in Communications Science at the FCRP, SNSPA, Bucharest (RO). Representative for Romania in the IASS/AIS Executive Committee - member of the IASS-AIS Executive Board (from September 2019). Founder and (co)organizer of the series of International Conference Semiosis in Communication, Bucharest (RO). Coordinator for International Cooperation of Applied Semiotics and Communication Laboratory, Research Center, FCRP (RO).

Web of Science ResearcherID: W-5450-2018

Curriculum Vitae (26/09/2024)

Expertise & keywords

Relational Approach of Strategic History Narratives Call name:
PRG1716 2023 - 2027

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: University of Tartu

Project partners: University of Tartu (); Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics ()

Affiliation: University of Tartu ()

Project website: https://www.rashina.ut.ee

Abstract:

In the past couple of decades there has been talk of a “cultural turn” in political and sociological sciences. Cultural factors are crucial also in another turn – the “narrative turn” in International Relations, and in social and political science in general. It means that culture and narratives are emphasised as crucial in the construction of a political actor’s identity and the course of their future activities. In international relation, narrative approaches often proceed from a constructivist paradigm which stresses the interaction of the intersubjective (often incompatible) views in the dynamics of foreign policy. International politics arise from mutually constitutive relations of multiple social actors and their shared understandings. It is not only states that are considered main actors, but the role of non-state institutions and of the audience in forming international relation has grown considerably in today’s media ecology. That is why the project relies on discourse-semiotic transmedia analysis of strategic narratives and, on a more conceptual level, on relational ontology.

Strategic narratives function to justify (geo)political aims, forge international alliances, and shape public opinion in domestic and foreign audiences as well as creating new conflicts and polarisations of target audiences. History narratives are not strategic per se, but are made strategic by the context in which they occur. We focus on the history narratives spread in the messages by the Russian Federation’s strategic actors and important mediators and channels linked with these. It means that the project does not concentrate only on the states’ grand strategies, but considers it equally important how the debating of narratives around a state’s identity, its conception of order, and the policies it wishes to pursue shape which ideas become accepted.

Artificial Intelligence and Creative Industry Employment Disruption Call name:
ERUA2 2024 - 2025

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: University of Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis

Project partners: University of Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis (); New Bulgarian University ()

Affiliation: University of Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis ()

Project website: https://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/ERUA2-Research-cluster-Artificial-Intelligence-and-Creative-Industry-Employment#aim-and-objectives-of-the-research-cluster

Abstract:

We aim to examine creativity and creative work within the creative industries from an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspective, focusing on the disruption caused by the growing use of artificial intelligence in the sector. Specifically, we seek to explore the threats faced by creative workers, as employers increasingly use AI to replace, rather than enhance, human creativity.

Our research will be focused on three main research streams :

1. Elaborating interdisciplinary methods to evaluate the intrinsic value of creativity, advocating for its protection and irreplaceability as a core principle in future legislation.

2. Investigating the added value of AI for human creativity and validating it from marketing, management, and law perspectives to ensure the sustainability of the labor market for creative workers.

3. Exploring new perspectives on AI applications in order to promote technology integration and minimize resistance from society and creative workers.

Strategic communication in the context of the war in Ukraine: lessons learned for Estonia Call name:
O-006 2023 - 2025

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics

Project partners: University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics (); Estonian Military Academy ()

Affiliation: University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics ()

Project website: https://www.etis.ee/portal/projects/display/e94d4995-d639-423a-b371-70b315a0dd0a

Abstract:

The main goal of the research project is to study (crisis-time) strategic communication in the context of the war in Ukraine, focusing mainly on strategic communication in Ukraine and influence activities of the Russian Federation. The project mainly examines the cognitive dimension of the war in Ukraine. We focus on four actors: the main focus is on the Russian Federation and Ukraine, but in order to better understand the cognitive dimension and perform a more context-sensitive analysis, it is also necessary to pay attention to the strategic communication messages of the USA and the European Union. For these four actors, we mainly focus on the speeches of representatives of political institutions and national strategic documents. We study the coverage of these speeches in the media and on the websites of national institutions and analyze how these different discursive acts were formed in the interaction between them. In order to best implement the goals of the project, interdisciplinary research methods are applied (including political communication, security studies, semiotics, history, media studies). Experts and researchers, cooperation partners, consultants from various institutions (Defence Academy, University of Tartu, Tallinn University of Technology, etc.) are involved in the project, as well as information warfare and strategic communication experts from Estonia and Ukraine.

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