Volume 3 · 2017

Volume 3 contents

1. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 5-31

   THE PERFORMANCE OF CONDOMINIUM HOUSING PROGRAM IN JIMMA TOWN, ETHIOPIA: A CASE STUDY (PDF)

   • Fesseha Mulu GEBREMARIAM
   • Ermiyas ADMASU
   • Kaso TEHA

   Keywords

   Affordable; Beneficeries; Condominum; Jimma town; Multiple registration

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   GEBREMARIAM, F. M., ADMASU, E., & TEHA, K. (2017). THE PERFORMANCE OF CONDOMINIUM HOUSING PROGRAM IN JIMMA TOWN, ETHIOPIA: A CASE STUDY. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 5-31. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-5-31.pdf (opens in a new tab)

   Abstract

   This study was conducted in six condominium sites to assess the performace of condominium housing program in Jimma town, Ethiopia. 280 questinnaires were accidentally distributed among cono residents. Besides, two focus group discussions with 11 participants from two condo sites, and an interview with two officials from Jimma town Housing Agency were also conducted. Moreover, field observation in the condo sites was held. The study reveals that condominium housing is not affordable to the poor section of the town. Most of the houses are rented, and a significant number of houses are transferred to third parties as well. Above all, most of the houses are transferred to people who are not from Jimma town, to Jimma University and to rich people of the town, not to the intended beneficeries of the program. Furthermore, residents of the houses are suffering lack of infrastructure, and basic facilities. Thus, the government shall revise its policy regarding the financial capabilities of urban poor to repay the housing loans; strict verification and coordination among cities and towns to avoid multiple registration is needed. Above all, the demand for condo housing is higher. Thus, the government should invest aggressively, and allow & encourage entrepreneurs to participate in supplying (affordable) houses to the poor.

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2. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 32-48

   LEADERSHIP IN THE PRE-UNIVERSITARY SYSTEM (PDF)

   • Janina-Elena VAȘCU
   • Mihaela Aurelia ȘTEFAN

   Keywords

   teamwork; manager; leader; intelligence; successful organization

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   VAȘCU, J.-E., & ȘTEFAN, M. A. (2017). LEADERSHIP IN THE PRE-UNIVERSITARY SYSTEM. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 32-48. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-32-48.pdf (opens in a new tab)

   Abstract

   The school manager, by complying with the adequate way of becoming a leader, has to adopt a new attitude in order to reach the basic objectives of his organization, related to time, performance and cost. The results should be the beneficiaries’ satisfaction and quality in education. The school manager has to take the responsibility of a leader, a role that becomes more and more complex due to the others’ expectations related to decision making, strategic organization and improvement of educational process. The speciality literature approaches, from the praxiological point of view, the management and leadership topic and we may notice some differences between the theoretical characteristics and the obvious and necessary practice as a solution inside a successful organization. This study aims at analyzing the leader’s capacity concerning intelligence as a form and attribute of behavioural organization, as an aptitude or capacity, as a process, as a real or potential fact, because the individual differences related to mental features and the development of analysis tools represent the bridge between manager and leader. The raw material of a leader personality is intelligence, difficult to define but easy to identify. The capacity to understand what is really essential, to solve problems based on the previous experience represent the attribute of an open-minded, skillful leader, relying on teamwork, with solutions for each and every situation.

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3. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 49-61

   INFORMATIONAL CONTENT OF THE PERIODIC SYNTHESIS REPORTS (PDF)

   • Aurelia DUMITRU
   • Andrei Bogdan BUDICĂ

   Keywords

   synthesis reports; financial information; economic entity

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   DUMITRU, A., & BUDICĂ, A. B. (2017). INFORMATIONAL CONTENT OF THE PERIODIC SYNTHESIS REPORTS. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 49-61. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-49-61.pdf (opens in a new tab)

   Abstract

   The financial reports are elaborated for the users that have enough knowledge on the business and economic activities and that study and analyse the information carefully. According to OMPF 1802 from December 29, 2014, OMPF 773/2015, OMPF 123/2016, the entities can be grouped into micro entities, small, middle and big entities. The grouping is made according to the trial balance finished at the end of the financial exercise 2014/2015. Those that have chosen a financial exercise different from the current year, determine the respective criteria, so that the end of the financial exercise can be on a date subsequent to the date of January 1, 2016, according to OMPF 123/2016.

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4. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 62-74

   THE IMPACT OF THE CONCEPT OF LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT (PDF)

   • Oprea-Valentin BUȘU
   • Valentina-Violeta DRAGĂ

   Keywords

   educational management; leadership; strategy; organizational effectiveness

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   BUȘU, O.-V., & DRAGĂ, V.-V. (2017). THE IMPACT OF THE CONCEPT OF LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 62-74. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-62-74.pdf (opens in a new tab)

   Abstract

   The proliferation of leadership policies in education, especially in secondary education, had a major role in transforming schools into complex organizations, with a major impact on the role of teachers and how they carry out their work. Thus, the concepts of educational management, training, leadership, have become very topical, imposing new coordinates such as excellence in education, the teaching act as an end and assuming responsibility for the needs, standards and expectations of the organization. Leadership is an art and a science. There are leaders in management positions who fail to have results due to the lack of expertise and proper management tools. On the other hand, a manager that has no leadership qualities will always have problems with building and motivating a team. Developing a school, seen both in terms of decentralization and about the needs and skills of modern society implies a direct and indirect development of the qualities and behavior of the manager, seen as a key element to the motivation and involvement of teachers. So, we talk about a successful leader. If a school is functioning, that does not mean that it is a successful one. It is important in this case the way it is run, the principles and values that are reflected in practice.

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5. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 75-83

   ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY IN SOLVING CONFLICTS (PDF)

   • Raluca-Ștefania BALICA

   Keywords

   conflict; poor communication; values systems; deontological code; solving conflicts

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   BALICA, R.-Ș. (2017). ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY IN SOLVING CONFLICTS. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 75-83. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-75-83.pdf (opens in a new tab)

   Abstract

   This study tries to present the main sources of the conflicts, but also the ethical and deontological ways of solving them. Thus, I have shown different views on the sources of the conflicts: communication, emotions, values, history, structure, human needs, differences in professional training, differences in perceiving realities and in the value system, equity at the job, communication deficiencies, the difficult behaviors of some people, competition, differences between departments, interdependence, territory, sharing resources, objectives and ideologies, irrational hostilities.

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6. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 85-94

   THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN RITUALS IN ROMANIAN CELEBRATIONS (PDF)

   • Bianca TEODORESCU

   Keywords

   anthropology; celebration; Romania; profane; sacred

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   TEODORESCU, B. (2017). THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN RITUALS IN ROMANIAN CELEBRATIONS. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 85-94. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-85-94.pdf (opens in a new tab)

   Abstract

   This article is based on a meta-analytical method in order to observe the need of Romanians nowadays to understand better the traditional rituals in our country. Romanians, after 1989, became curious about other cultures and wanted to explore them instead focusing on their own tradition. However, in spite of this situation, in the present, Romania has started to get back to its roots, to understand the importance of preserving its traditions. People are seeking for traditions and rituals in the period of traditional Romanian celebrations. In order to do that, they have to know which parts of the regions from Romania are mostly based on traditions. In this case, I can say that Maramures and Bucovina which are considered the most desired in the Romanian celebrations period. Our society is in constant change, starting with the manifestation of the interest of the ordinary citizen regarding the stages from traditionalism to modernism. Our society keeps its traditional celebrations intact, but it fails to escape the influence of other cultures. Today, Romania has a stable culture with a strong nationalist sense, but it is flexible and open to new ideas or cultures. Thus, our country becomes a centre of cultural creation manifested through different traditional rituals.

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7. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 95-105

   THE CLASSICIST VISION OF THE JOURNALIST MIHAI EMINESCU ON CULTURE (PDF)

   • Iulian BITOLEANU

   Keywords

   journalism; conception on culture; national specificity; Eminescu

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   BITOLEANU, I. (2017). THE CLASSICIST VISION OF THE JOURNALIST MIHAI EMINESCU ON CULTURE. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 95-105. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-95-105.pdf (opens in a new tab)

   Abstract

   This paper explores Mihai Eminescu's journalist work aiming to describe his conception on culture and on its importance in society. The methodology comprises the comparative method and procedures of the content analysis method. Firstly, we make a classification of the articles published by the journalist Eminescu. Then we draft their taxonomy, on three categories: a) articles with a general character; b) articles in concentric circles, with a gradual assignation of literature, language and press inside culture, some kind of 'pars pro toto'; c) 'impure' articles, dealig with politics, national specificity and history. From all articles, we extract and reveal Eminescu's balanced conception on the act of culture, realizing perennial ideas of the classicism. Giving them rightfully journalist effigy total, the shock of the nineteenth century Romanian journalist Mihai Eminescu, a culture devoted an amount of articles that are grouped into: a) general articles; b) articles in concentric circles, with staggered assignation of literature, language, folklore, media in the area of culture, a kind of 'pars pro toto'; c) articles 'impure' escalating political, national character and history. Method consists of verticalization of dozens of journalistic materials, significant clippings. We exegesis distanced somewhat impassive in cultural journalism Eminescu, although there explicit titles of some of the studies "about civilization", "culture", "culture and nationality". In essence, it reveals a healthy conception of culture act, drawing ideas perennial classicism.

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8. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 106-143

   SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND WORK -RELATED SAFETY CONDITIONS OF COAL MINE WORKERS: THE CASE OF ACHIBO-SOMBO COAL MINING SITE (PDF)

   • Chali ETEFA
   • Idris YEBA
   • Girma DEFERE

   Keywords

   socio-economic condition; safety and health; wage; coalmine worker; wellbeing; coal-mining; Ethiopia

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   ETEFA, C., YEBA, I., & DEFERE, G. (2017). SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND WORK -RELATED SAFETY CONDITIONS OF COAL MINE WORKERS: THE CASE OF ACHIBO-SOMBO COAL MINING SITE. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 106-143. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-106-143.pdf (opens in a new tab)

   Abstract

   This study was designed as a descriptive case study to assess the socio- economic and safety conditions of coalmine workers at Achibo-Sombo of Yayo district, Ilu Abba Bor Zone, Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia. The main objective of this study was to assess the socio-economic and safety conditions of coalmine workers by focusing on medical benefits, safety measures, employment relationship, labour union, wage/salary and psychosocial state. To this end, the research employed descriptive design guided by mixed research approach. The empirical data was obtained from 70 respondents via questionnaires, focus group discussions and interviews with key informats. Data collected was analyzed using stastical package for social scinence for descriptive statistics then presented in tables and charts in the form of cumulative frequency, percentage, correlation and chi-squire, while the qualitative data were analyzed by cross-analysis methods. The study found that the employment of a contractual nature does not take a formal legal procedure; mine workers were not organized in the form of union to defend/safeguard their interests and rights; lack of appropriate safety measures and health checkups, and low wage/salary. On the basis of the findings, provisions of safety measures, medical benefits, including pre and on job health examination for coalmine workers, issues of minimum wage policy and forming a trade union are serious concerns that should be addressed immediately.

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9. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 144-162

   CATHARSIS AND AND CREDIBILITY IN THE TODAY MEDIA SPACE (PDF)

   • Xenia NEGREA

   Keywords

   media; aesthetic; emotion; disaster; drama; catharsis

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   NEGREA, X. (2017). CATHARSIS AND AND CREDIBILITY IN THE TODAY MEDIA SPACE. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 144-162. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-144-162.pdf (opens in a new tab)

   Abstract

   In this study we aim to analyze how a story is built in today media space. Besides the linguistics norms concerning the meaning issues, the media story is a source of catharsis which can consume psychosocial energies. The public event becomes a media event and so it becomes an aesthetic event. The contemporary soul burns the pain and the anger watching TV, doing symbolic gestures, looking for uniformity. For our case study we chose to analyze the stories around the disaster from a Romanian nightclub; during a concert, a fire started and over 60 people died. We aim to describe the lexical ritual that we identified in the media discourse. We describe the patterns that generate meaning. We show how the subjectivity and the ideology bring closer the media discourse and the fictional one, and so we see that the report on such a tragedy means more empathy and less information, more emotional release and less storage of meanings. We can speak about the haste of a collective self to impose the ritual anger as a unique direction in front of a disaster.

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10. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 163-175

    ABOUT THE ROLE OF PUBLIC PRESS TODAY. CASE STUDY - AGERPRES (PDF)

    • Maria CRACIUN

    Keywords

    Credibility; social media; public press; press agency

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    CRACIUN, M. (2017). ABOUT THE ROLE OF PUBLIC PRESS TODAY. CASE STUDY - AGERPRES. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 163-175. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-163-175.pdf (opens in a new tab)

    Abstract

    In this study we are discussing the current state of the agency public media. Financial and political control over this type of institution raises another issue of today's press, in addition to tabloidization - misinformation. As far as the case study is concerned, we stopped on an episode that took place in 2017 havingg as protagonists the current director of AGERPRES and Lucian Romașcanu, president of the Senate Culture Commission. We notice that there the public press journalist does not depend primarily on the fluctuations of the subjectivity of the public, but on the needs of the Establishment.

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11. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 176-182

    Book Review. Carmen Popescu, Intertextualitatea şi paradigma dialogică a comparatismului, 2016, Romania, Craiova: Universitaria. [Intertextuality and the dialogic paradigm of the comparativism], 294 pp (PDF)

    • Xenia NEGREA

    Keywords

    globalization; multiculturalism; dialogue

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    NEGREA, X. (2017). Book Review. Carmen Popescu, Intertextualitatea şi paradigma dialogică a comparatismului, 2016, Romania, Craiova: Universitaria. [Intertextuality and the dialogic paradigm of the comparativism], 294 pp. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 176-182. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-176-182.pdf (opens in a new tab)

    Abstract

    Usually, globalization is understood as a sort of conquest, of domination, as assimilation. Frequently, globalization is followed by the concept of multiculturalism; it is sustained by a terminological paradigm emerging from diversity and tolerance. Both concepts – globalization and multiculturalism – have the same source, the idea of opening. This opening paradigm brings together concepts such as availability, dialog, and comprehension.

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12. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 183-189

    Tennis and journalism in the post-modern society. A book about the struggle to succeed on your own in a treacherous environment (PDF)

    • Davian VLAD

    Keywords

    tennis; sports; journalism; book; Adrian Fetecău

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    VLAD, D. (2017). Tennis and journalism in the post-modern society. A book about the struggle to succeed on your own in a treacherous environment. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 183-189. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-183-189.pdf (opens in a new tab)

    Abstract

    The initial stages of the training process and the first official competitions are crucial for the future career of a young tennis player. It is a make or break period filled with great expectations, but also threatened by some tricky situations that can come up in certain circumstances, when wrong decisions are made and an unbearable pressure is put on the emerging players. Renowned sports journalist and famous comedy writer and actor, Adrian Fetecău describes his experience as parent of a young tennis player in a book which reveals some of the unpleasant aspects of a sport that attracts millions of people around the world. The author makes us see beyond the glamorous image constructed around a sport that is a continuous striving to overcome not only the opponents, but also one’s own limits. It is a book about the struggle to succeed on your own and about the efforts, hopes and disilussions marking the life of a young tennis player.

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13. Volume 3 · 2017 · pp. 189-195

    ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF FILTER BUBBLES AND PERSONALIZED NEWS-STREAMS (PDF)

    • Dan Valeriu VOINEA

    Keywords

    filter bubbles; personalized news; information filtering; fake news; news algorithms; social media

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    VOINEA, D. V. (2017). ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF FILTER BUBBLES AND PERSONALIZED NEWS-STREAMS. Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 3, 189-195. https://aucjc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/aucjcm-vol-3-2017-190-201.pdf (opens in a new tab)

    Abstract

    In the days of traditional media, be it print, radio, or television, every consumer of a product received the same information. However, with the transition to the online world, personalization, tailoring information to the individual’s interests, became a possibility. Starting with the advent of personalized search (Pitkow et al., 2002), which was introduced by Google as a feature of its search engine in 2004, interest-based advertising and personalized news became both features, improving the relevance of the information to a specific user, and ethical problems – how can information only I receive influence me? The issue is even more complicated when talking about social media and personalized news – how can we ensure algorithms are transparent and indiscriminate? The present research is focused on bringing to attention possible ethical dilemmas and solutions to filter bubbles brought on by news personalization.

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