About
About
My name is Raluca Moise, I am Romanian and I am a cultural anthropologist.
Here are some points of reference:
Academic
I am at this point collaboration assistant at University of Bucharest. And many other things.
My experience in academic field:
2006-present: assistant researcher in a research project financed CNCSIS realized by ANSIT.
2006-2007: guest assistant at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philology, Compared Litterature Department. Seminars of Cultural Anthropology and History of Collective Representations.
2005-2006: guest assistant at the University of Bucharest, Philology Faculty, Communication and Public Relations Department, Seminars of Cultural Anthropology and History of Collective Representations.
2004 – 2005: collaborator assistant with Department of Communication and Public relations, Faculty of Philology, University of Bucharest – I-st year: History of the collective representations and the II-nd year: Elements of cultural anthropology.
Scientific memberships: member of InAsea (International Association for Southeast European Anthropology), member of Center for Social and Fundamental Studies, University Bogdan Voda, Cluj.
Research:
I am currently pursuing a PhD in co-coordination between University Free of Brussels and University of Bucharest. I finished the Faculty of Philology, pursuing two masters in Cultural Anthropology. After the second master, realized at Ecole Doctorale Francophone of South-Central Europe, I obtained a scholarship from Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (www.auf.org).
As a researcher, I began to be interested in the relationship between young people and communication and information technologies. More specific, my dissertation and thesis treat the appropriation of SMS in youth culture. My point of interests are the uses of TIC and the link between them and communication forms and values. Between 2005 and 2006, I realized a research in Bucharest regarding SMS uses at teenagers. As Romanian literature teacher in two of Bucharest high schools, I had access to teen culture and it was easy enough to keep in touch and in contact with this urban reality. Between 2006 and 2007, I expanded my research in Brussels, trying to research the uses of cell phone and SMS at Belgian teens. The degree of access to them had decreased and I had to multiply my ways and methods in order to do my research.
Having as starting point the uses of SMS, I also researched the relationship of this technological network with others, like Instant Messenger, chat etc. I therefore discovered a specificity of Internet appropriation in Romania: virtual communities which were constructed as liberal and free networks. In Romania, these are called “neighborhood networks” and the share of data is the basic principle.
Another expansion of my basic research was to see and observe youth culture. I therefore “entered” in all the subcultures (manga, gothics, punk), social networks (clubbers) and communities of practices (football supporters), in order to study their way of expressing several identities.
Collaborating in a research project with ANSIT (www.ansitromania.ro), I realized a mini-research in Valenii de Munte, regarding technological uses of computer at young people inside alternative education institutions. See: Digital Cultures category.
Accomplished projects:.
2006-present: junior editor and social sciences collection coordinator at Zeta Books, online publishing house (www.zetabooks.com).
2008, April: collaborator at the radio show “Stiinta in cuvinte potrivite”, Radio Romania Cultural
2007, May 29: comunicare Universitatea Liberã din Bruxelles, Institutul de Sociologie Ernest Solvay, în cadrul colocviului organizat de cãtre Centrul de Cercetãri în Etnologie Europeanã (CREE), colocviu intitulat „Homo Balkanicus”; prezentarea s-a intitulat „L’appropriation des nouvelles technologies de l’information – le cas des adolescents roumains ».
2007, August -present: research assistant, project financed by CNCSIS: „Actual demands of labor market and of contemporary society based on knowledge and development of alternative learning projects”.
2006, September: collaborator at a scientific blog which treats the alternative methods of learning through new technologies in youth culture, www.matrixstudent.blogspot.com.
2006, May 13-14: participation at the conference „Communication culture and Public Relations: theoretical configurations and applications”, University of Bucharest.
January 21-29, 2006: participation at the Interdisciplinary Seminar of Cognitive Sciences, at the Technological University of Compiegne, France, with the essay „What makes us consume? The consumption as an action”.
May 13-14, 2005: participation at the conference „Communication culture and public relations: theoretical configurations and applications”, University of Bucharest.
2005: communication at University Free of Brussels, Institute of Sociology Ernest Solvay, Cultural Anthropology Center, “Lang 2 Molier? Practices of SMS and social relationships in youth culture”.
September, 2004: chief editor at the scientific magazine „Anthropological Researches. Contemporary Perspectives”, Ed. University of Bucharest.
May, 2003: participation at founding the Center of Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Philology, permanent member.
November, 2003: participation in the conference, Dimitrie Cantemir “, organized by Prof Dr. Dan Horia Mazilu, with the report, Christianity in Demetre Cantemir – manifestation of the collective unconscious “.
August 2002, 2003: participation at conferences of Ancient Romanian literature and the camps of studies organized with Cozia monastery for transliteration of old manuscripts from Slavon.
2002: participation in the project of computational linguistics coordinated by Prof Emil Ionescu, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest.
Other projects
I am also coordinator of Anthropology & Sociology collection to Zeta Books, scientific publishing house. At this collection, we published three interesting books: Alexandru Balasescu, Paris Chic, Tehran Thrills. Aesthetic bodies, political subjects; Dan Semenescu, Apparition des formes urbaines. Institutions symboliques et structures materielles au Sud-Est de l’Europe; Marc Lenaerts and Ana Spadafora, Pueblos indigenas, plantas y mercados. Amazonia y Gran Chaco. See for details: www.zetabooks.com.
I have two other projects where I was proposed to collaborate, but we are now waiting to see if the finance will be approved. The first is about the link between communities of emigrants and immigrants in Bucharest; the second one, about the communication inside institutions.
I also collaborated to a student’s project: Save for tomorrow, where students from Political Sciences Faculty have written a book in 8 days about global warming. Here are the details: www.save4tomorrow.net.
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