Swim in the digital world

Ancuta Tarta
Assistant Prof. - Babes-Bolyai University
STUDIES

- October 2008 - onwards : PhD student, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- October 2008 - July 2009 : Master in Media Communication, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- October 2004 - July 2008 : Bachelor in Journalism, Department of Journalism, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca
- October 2004 - July 2008 : Bachelor in European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca

EXPERIENCE

- October 2008 - onwards : Assistant professor, Department of Journalism, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

- May - June 2009 : Assistant trainer, "SWIM in the Digital World" European Seminar, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, www.swiminthedigitalworld.eu

- July - September 2008 : Customer Sales Consultant - Zurich Insurance Ireland Limited (Zurich Connect Bratislava branch) - 3000 Parkway, Whiteley, Fareham, Hants, PO 15 7JZ, UK (left to continue my studies)

- June 2007 : Reporter/Editor for "Urban Pulse", the newspaper of the "UrbanFest" Students' Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

- December 2006 : 1 month traineeship, "ImagineTact" Advertising Agency, Cluj-Napoca - Copywriting Department

- December 2006 : international 2-week seminar on the "Cohesion Policy" of the European Union, Munster, Germany

- August 2006 : 2-week traineeship, Department for European Integration and International Cooperation, Prefecture of Cluj-Napoca (local administration institution), Romania

- July 2005 : traineeship, "Antena 1" TV station, Cluj-Napoca, News Department

CONFERENCES PARTICIPATION

- 2009 (April) : International Congress of Press History in Romania, Iasi, Romania, paper : "Romanian Mass-media and the European Issues"

- 2009 (May) : International Conference "Interdisciplinary New Media Studies", Cluj-Napoca, Romania, paper : The Framing Process in the Online Media

- 2008 (July) : International Exploratory Workshop on Media, PR and Advertising, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, paper : The Media and the Social Construction of Reality

- 2008 (May) : 1st prize in Communication Session for Journalism students (Paper : "Mass-media and the Construction of Reality"), Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

PUBLICATIONS

- "The Framing Process in the Online Media", in Interdisciplinary New Media Studies Conference Proceedings, Napoca Star, 2009, Cluj-Napoca, pp.51-55
- "Independent Kosovo. An Attempt of Neorealist View", in Romanian Review of International Studies, Issue 1/2009, p.1-22, http://dsi.institute.ubbcluj.ro/revista/RRIS-I-Nr.-1-2009-19/
- "Mass-media featuring Multimedia : consider this the Hint of the Century", in Journal of Media Research, no.3/2009, pp. 103-110
- "Romanian Media in the European Context. A Framework for Analysis", in Elena Abrudan (ed.), Trends in Romanian Media Literacy, Accent, Cluj-Napoca, 2008, pp. 168-182
- "Comunicarea mediatica in construirea sociala a realitatii" [Media communication and the social construction of reality], in Studia Ephemerides Academic Journal, Volume 53 - No. 2/2008, pp. 145-154