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    Attitudes towards Russia in a Country bordering War-torn Ukraine: Antecedents, Prevalence, and Consequences for Voting Behaviour
    (European Institute of Romania, 2025) Corbu, Nicoleta; Ștefăniță, Oana; Durach, Flavia; Vladu, Loredana
    The war in Ukraine has raised many questions about how people in bordering countries react to such a conflict. Do they understand its stakes? How do they form their opinions about the belligerent parties, and what influences their attitudes and their domestic political choices? In this context, using a national survey (N=1000) with control variables for religiosity, education, and gender, we examine how the Romanians’ attitudes towards the Russian Federation are shaped by their political knowledge, conspiracy mindset, and media consumption and trust. We found that people prone to take pro-Russia attitudes usually have lower levels of political knowledge, hold conspiracy beliefs, consume and trust more the news disseminated through social media, and are more likely to vote with extreme right-wing parties. Religiosity and gender are also important aspects that influence people’s attitudes in the sense that more religious males take a more positive stance towards Russia.
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    Exposure to Online Hateful Content and Users’ Engagement: A Silencing Effect
    (University of Southern California, 2024) Corbu, Nicoleta; Buturoiu, Raluca; Ștefăniță, Oana; Dumitrache, Alexandru
    Although there has been recent interest in the effects of exposure to online hate speech targeting ethnic minority groups, there are some underexplored areas. In a context dominated by debates over free and hateful speech across social media platforms, it has never been more pertinent to investigate whether exposure to Facebook content targeting Roma people, Europe’s largest ethnic minority group, leads to different levels of willingness to act (either positively, countering hateful content, or negatively, enhancing it). By a 4 × 2 experimental design (degree of hate speech × valence of accompanying comments) conducted in Romania, this research shows people’s general tendency to keep silent and avoid supporting or reacting in favor of the Roma minority group. Results can be used for evidence-based solutions to limit and discourage online hateful content.
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    Framing the Refugee Crisis in Online Media: A Romanian Perspective
    (Comunicare.ro, 2017) Corbu, Nicoleta; Buturoiu, Raluca; Durach, Flavia
    The European Union (EU) is under severe pressure, due to the multiple crises it has to manage. Among them, the refugee crisis is remarkable, since it is shaking both the individual member states and the EU as a whole. The media coverage of the refugee crisis is important because the media still are the main source of information concerning distant issues (the refugee crisis included), and as such it facilitates people’s access to social reality. Using the perspective of agenda-setting and the conceptual background of framing theory, we aim to (1) identify the most prominent frames online media employ with reference to the refugee crisis, and (2) reveal the tone of voice online media use when portraying issues related to this crisis. To achieve these two goals, we content analyzed 1493 online news articles, published between April 15, 2015 and February 29, 2016. Main findings show that online media outlets mainly refer to the refugee crisis in terms of responsibility and conflict, in this order of prominence. At the same time, online media portals prefer using a reasonably balanced viewpoint when portraying the refugees, and a slightly negative one in terms of attitudes towards the European Union.