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Research areas:

  • Media ecosystems and their dynamics
  • Political and social communication
  • Reception of media content; audiences and their behavior on different platforms; media literacy and education

 

Head of the Department
Assoc. prof. dr. Renata Šukaitytė-Coenen
 

Researchers - Experts

 

 Doctoral students

  • Kėvišas Magnus Tomas
  • Vitkauskaitė Ilona

Postdoctoral researchers

 Dr. Zane Balčus, research theme "Baltic Documentary Cinema: Modalities and Challenges of First-Person Filmmaking" (supervisor Assoc. Prof. dr Renata Šukaitytė-Coenen; funded by Research Council of Lithuania)

Researchers-trainees

Kristina Pocytė-Medutė, research theme "Protests and actions of the Lithuanian Family Movement 2021-2023: dominant visual tropes in Lithuanian media" (supervisor Assoc. Prof. dr Renata Šukaitytė-Coenen, funded by Research Council of Lithuania) 

Maironio st. 7, Vilnius

Tel. +370 5 219 3047 

Head of the Department
Prof. dr. (HP) Žygintas Pečiulis

 

Scientists

  • Mass Communication
  • Audiovisual Communication
  • History and Theory of Television
  • Public Communication

Projects Supported by University Budget

Journalistic content and distribution channels change in terms of intermedialism. Prof. Dr. Ž. Pečiulis. 2017–2020.

The aim of the project is to analyse the content of traditional journalistic and other media with the change of dissemination channels. Research approach – theories of mediamorphosis (media interaction) and intermediality (the influence of old media to the new ones and intersections of different expressions in each medium).

Research themes: journalism genres and technological changes in content dissemination, activity principles of journalists and public (media information producers), media functions, transformations of audiovisual media expressions and narratives.

Established 27 June 2017 by Decision of the Council of the Faculty of Communication 

Bernardinų str. 11, Vilnius

Tel. +370 5 219 3040

Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Andrius Vaišnys

Researchers - Experts

  • Information policy (media-state relations)
  • History and development of mass media
  • Journalism ethics
  • Journalism theory and practice
  • Media effects
  • Media management
  • New and traditional media
  • History of Journalism (process of media-government conflict as theoretical and practical aspects)
  • Political communication

Projects Supported by University Budget

Conflicts of Political Communication in Journalism: Experience, Challenges, Perspectives of Media-Audience-Government Relationship. Prof. Dr. A. Vaišnys. 2017–2020.

International Research Projects

COST Action IS1308  Populist Political Communication in Europe: Comprehending the Challenge Mediated Political Populism for  Democratic Politics.  Prof. dr. G.Aleknonis.

COST Action: IS1308: Populist Political Communication in Europe: Comprehending the Challenge of Mediated Political Populism for Democratic Politics (07/04/2014 - 06/04/2018). The coordinator activities are supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020. Prof. Dr. Toril Aalberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

The goal of this Action was to investigate populist political communication and its impact on democratic political life across Europe. This is necessary not only in light of recent populist backlashes in many democracies against governments and political and economic developments, but also in respect to changes in national media and communication systems.

In order to comprehend this poorly understood aspect of contemporary political communication this Action will examine three interconnected, but distinct aspects of populist political communication:

First, populist political communication actors and their communication strategies. Second, the media and populist discourses and frames. Third, citizen's engagement with populist political messages and the effect of these messages.

This Action will provide a thorough critical review of existing knowledge, much improved research coordination, widen co-operation between scholars, bridge gaps in existing knowledge and strengthen dialogue with various societal stakeholders, benefiting media organizations, NGOs and policy actors as well as the wider scientific community. MC member – G. Aleknonis.

COST Action CA15101  Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy theories (COMPACT).  Prof. dr. G. Aleknonis.

Saulėtekio ave. 9, Ist building
211 room

Tel. +370 5 219 3039

Head of the Department
Assoc. prof. dr. Lina Murinienė

 

Scientists

  • Media rhetoric, political rhetoric, rhetoric of the old Lithuania‘s literature
  • Language communication, pragmatics, stylistics
  • Language policy, standardisation and codification

 Projects Supported by University Budget

Power and strategies of the contemporary spoken and written public language. Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Murinienė. 2017–2020.

The aim of the project was to analyse the relation and interface between rhetoric and language communication, trends and tendencies of public discourse for choice of rhetoric strategies.

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