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Resilience as a Structural Condition: Mental Health and Safety Challenges in Watchdog Science Journalism
(Media and Communication, 2026-07-30) Ometa, Oana
This article examines resilience and mental health as structural conditions shaping journalists’ ability to perform a watchdog role in science-related domains. Based on 12 semi-structured interviews with Romanian investigative journalists, the study shows that watchdog science journalism operates in a fragile environment marked by institutional obstruction, financial precarity, harassment, and emotional strain. These pressures are particularly visible in investigations involving public health, environmental issues, and academic integrity, where journalists must deal with restricted access to information, expert authority, and public hostility. Participants describe burnout, anxiety, moral distress, and difficulties in sustaining long-term investigations without institutional support. Although they rely on coping strategies such as therapy, peer support, digital security practices, and professional networks, these mechanisms offer only partial protection. The article argues that resilience should not be understood only as an individual capacity, but as a structural requirement for sustaining watchdog science journalism. Understanding the conditions that undermine journalists’ mental health, safety, and autonomy is essential for assessing the democratic value of their watchdog function.
The Winding Road to Professionalisation: Care Work in Romanian Nursing Homes
(Social Inclusion, 2026-07-29) Deneva, Neda; Földes, Ionuț; Ursu, Denisa; Hărăguș, Mihaela
Across Central and Eastern Europe, the expansion of formal long‐term care provision has intensified questions regarding the organisation, recognition, and professionalisation of care work. Romania offers a particularly relevant case, as the rapid growth of residential care for older persons has created new institutional spaces where care is increasingly organised as paid work. Despite the legal regulation of occupations in this field, occupational roles overlap in practice, and employers recruit a substantial share of workers without prior qualifications, while skills are acquired through short courses, peer learning, and on‐the‐job experience. This article examines these processes of professionalisation in Romanian nursing homes, focusing on how overlapping roles, emotional labour, and tacit knowledge shape everyday care practice. Drawing on qualitative interviews with care workers and managers in private nursing homes, the findings reveal fluid professional boundaries, with medical, non‐medical, and relational responsibilities frequently overlapping. Professionalisation emerges slowly and unevenly, not through institutional reform or credentialisation alone, but through workers’ everyday adaptation, informal learning, and the practical negotiation of professional roles under conditions of labour shortages and limited institutional support.
The “TikTok Messiah”: Ritualized Emotional Performance, Memetic Sound, and Mobilization in Romania’s 2024 Presidential Elections
(Media and Communication, 2026-04-09) Meza, Radu M.; Mogoș, Andreea-Alina; Prundaru, George; Vincze, Hanna Orsolya
Since 2024, TikTok’s potential to influence political outcomes has gained heightened visibility. In Romania, the unexpected success of an independent far-right candidate in the first round of the presidential election was widely attributed to his TikTok-based campaign. On the platform, supporters combine text, sound, and image, making a multimodal analytical approach appropriate. We integrate Nabi’s emotion-as-frames model and Tagg’s musical communication model to examine how popular culture and political expression intersect on TikTok. The analysis draws on two datasets analyzed using two complementary methods. First, we employ quantitative content analysis to examine videos and metadata from the calingeorgescuoficial TikTok account (742 items) alongside metadata from 1,400 videos using aural meme templates. Second, we apply a newly developed qualitative approach to an in-depth analysis of a subsample of 150 videos employing popular memetic sounds in support of the politician. The novelty of the proposed multimodal analytical approach consists of two layers, denotative and connotative, and two dimensions, visual and aural, to provide an analytical model for memetic expressions of political support on TikTok that lack verbal elements. The results reveal the strategic use of a wide range of memetic sounds—from hip-hop and pop-folk to military marches and religious chants—to mobilize voters dissatisfied with the political establishment and to amplify nationalist sentiment centered on claims of national sovereignty around the candidate. We identify how established narratives are repurposed and performed on camera through emotional cues. Visuals anchor these emotions in diverse settings—from everyday life to protest scenes—while sounds provide scripts for communal performance.
Faces of Europe: Structural Drivers of Visual Personalization in Political Parties’ Facebook Campaigns
(Media and Communication, 2026-05-14) Magin, Melanie; Russmann, Uta; Vulcano, Rossella; von Nostitz, Felix-Christopher; Wurst, Anna-Katharina; Gattermann, Katjana; Alonso-Muñoz, Laura; Balaban, Delia Cristina; Baranowski, Paweł; Burai, Krisztina; Cachia, Jean Claude; Deželan, Tomaž; Garaj, Michal; Hermans, Babette; Kallinikos, Konstantinos; Kannasto, Elisa; Kruschinski, Simon; Lappas, Georgios; Machado, Sara; Pospíšil Macková, Alena; Dutceac Segesten, Anamaria; Skulte, Ilva; Vučković, Milica; Wall, Matt
Social media platforms have become central arenas for election campaigning, pushing political actors to adapt to their attention‑driven logics. One prominent strategy is visual personalization, reflecting the platforms’ person‑centered, image‑driven design. This study offers the first large‑scale, cross‑national analysis of how political parties across 23 EU countries strategically employed two dimensions of visual personalization—individualization and privatization—on Facebook during the 2024 European Parliament election campaign. It examines how their digital campaign output was shaped by two party‑level factors (populist vs. non‑populist status; government vs. opposition) and two country‑level factors (electoral systems; degree of authoritarianism). Based on a manual content analysis of 14,553 posts, we find that individualization was far more common than privatization and that party‑level characteristics exerted stronger influence than country‑level contexts. Populist and governing parties used more individualization. Privatization was more prevalent among non‑populist parties and in more liberal environments. These findings challenge assumptions about populist and authoritarian communication styles and make a theoretical contribution by demonstrating that visual personalization is a multidimensional phenomenon whose specific dimensions respond differently to structural incentives. Our results underscore the need to analytically separate individualization and privatization and to account for their distinct contextual drivers when assessing political personalization in digital environments.
Care Under Constraint: Unmet Care Needs Among Older Adults in Romania
(Social Inclusion, 2026-05-27) Hărăguș, Mihaela; Földes, Ionuț
Population ageing is a common trend across Europe, yet its social consequences vary significantly between countries. In Romania, older adults face heightened risks of social exclusion and vulnerability, shaped by the legacy of post-communist welfare transformations and large-scale emigration. The shift from a state-socialist model of social protection to a fragmented, residual system has led to a growing reliance on families and informal networks. At the same time, outmigration of the care workforce abroad has generated a domestic care drain. As a result, access to care in later life is characterised by significant inequalities, which depend on family resources, material conditions, and geographic location. Drawing on a 2025 national survey of over 900 persons aged 65 and older, this study examines the relationship between the care needs of older people and the support they receive, with the aim of identifying the most vulnerable groups. Anchored in the care poverty framework, the analysis considers individual characteristics (age, gender, health status, socioeconomic position), family context (living arrangements, presence of migrant children), and structural dimensions (urban-rural divides). Findings reveal that older adults living in rural areas, those residing alone, individuals with migrant close family members, weak social networks, material deprivation, or poor health are more likely to experience care poverty. These results highlight the uneven distribution of care resources and point to the urgent need for targeted policy interventions to mitigate inequalities in later-life care provision.