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Places have been promoting their attractions throughout history for almost a century now and place marketing started capturing the attention of economic researchers in the early 1990s. Although the globalized space has become a major interdisciplinary field of study in the past few decades, we still do not have a definite solution for measuring or predicting the changes it brings. The aim of this study is to propose an instrument to help scholars quantify the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 components of the online presence of place brands and their spatial dynamics in a broader global context. By taking the ‘space of flows’ approach to frame globalization, we questioned whether geography is still destiny in the context of online place branding communication. To answer the question, we developed a category grid and applied it in the content analysis of 82 official country websites. We found that geographical position is still important in conditioning the adoption of Web 1.0, and does not make a significant difference in the adoption of Web 2.0. However, the strongest predictors of the adoption of Web 1.0 are not the ones related to geography, but to socio-economic inequality. It is therefore possible for the theorizations of the advantages of the ‘space of flows’ globalization to be suitable only for Web 2.0, Web 1.0 still being under the influence of the ‘space of place’. We discussed the implications of adopting the network society theory in place branding communication in order to nuance the understanding of the transitions from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 in place marketing.
Victor-Alexandru Briciu; Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu; Arabela Briciu. Online Place Branding: Is Geography ‘Destiny’ in a ‘Space of Flows’ World? Sustainability 2020, 12, 4073 .
AMA StyleVictor-Alexandru Briciu, Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu, Arabela Briciu. Online Place Branding: Is Geography ‘Destiny’ in a ‘Space of Flows’ World? Sustainability. 2020; 12 (10):4073.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVictor-Alexandru Briciu; Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu; Arabela Briciu. 2020. "Online Place Branding: Is Geography ‘Destiny’ in a ‘Space of Flows’ World?" Sustainability 12, no. 10: 4073.
The new communication forms emerging from the digital field have profoundly changed how companies communicate with their stakeholders. If a few years ago, the attention of companies was centred on websites, at present specialist literature highlights how important it is for SMEs to define and to adopt an online marketing mix and to develop interactive applications. Nevertheless, given that Romania is in the last place in the EU regarding the degree of digitisation of the population and that Google develops a series of programmes for rising digital competencies of entrepreneurs, we intend to scan the attitudes and behaviours of the representatives of companies in the SMEs field regarding digital marketing, to offer clues on how professionals in the digital field and marketing could address this market segment more efficiently. In this respect, we selectively present the results of an exploratory research on the basis of opinion polls applied online. The quantitative data were collected in 2019 through an online survey technique based on a standardised online questionnaire applied to 100 Romanian entrepreneurs from the SMEs sector participating in the project Google Digital Workshop.
Claudiu Coman; Maria Mădălina Popica; Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu. The Adoption of Digital Marketing by SMEs Entrepreneurs. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2019, 431 -441.
AMA StyleClaudiu Coman, Maria Mădălina Popica, Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu. The Adoption of Digital Marketing by SMEs Entrepreneurs. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 2019; ():431-441.
Chicago/Turabian StyleClaudiu Coman; Maria Mădălina Popica; Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu. 2019. "The Adoption of Digital Marketing by SMEs Entrepreneurs." Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing , no. : 431-441.
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how museums use Augmented Reality (AR) to enhance communication services with their audiences and attract new ones. Still, there is no definite answer to how young audiences perceive the educational effects of experiencing this augmented space of communication as an immersive medium. This study is based on a survey of 400 students after they visited an AR technology-enhanced exhibition held by a local history museum. Two stimulus–response marketing scale metrics, widely used to assess TV commercials, were adapted for AR experiences and validated. The mediation analysis revealed an intervening emotional mechanism, in which the multisensory AR experience has educational effects through entertainment and empathy. An improved stimulus–response empirical model is proposed, in which AR technologies, as environmental multisensory stimuli, produce cognitive responses through emotional immersion. The findings have significance in improving how museums encode their message using AR technologies as a secondary communication medium with young audiences. This study could help museum professionals and application developers to find AR implementation solutions as service tools to enhancing user experience by using a widely tested scale for evaluating TV commercials applied to measure AR experiences.
Florin Nechita; Catalina-Ionela Rezeanu. Augmenting Museum Communication Services to Create Young Audiences. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5830 .
AMA StyleFlorin Nechita, Catalina-Ionela Rezeanu. Augmenting Museum Communication Services to Create Young Audiences. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (20):5830.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFlorin Nechita; Catalina-Ionela Rezeanu. 2019. "Augmenting Museum Communication Services to Create Young Audiences." Sustainability 11, no. 20: 5830.
During the last century, in social and humanistic sciences, the dominant perspective on space was the political economy, focusing on how space relates to macro-social phenomena and minimizing the role of the micro-social ones, by conceptualizing space as a social force, constraining social actions. Despite sporadic attempts to theorize how people could escape the dominance of power by investing spaces with subjective meanings, appropriating spaces through body practices, or anchoring memories and identities into specific spaces, there is still a need to understand how spaces are lived and how daily life spatial contexts become micro-foundations for social actions. I conduct an interpretive synthesis to show how social scientists borrowed ideas from philosophers to understand the phenomenology of everyday life by capturing the experience of urban, residential, and domestic space. I explore space through phenomenological lenses to clarify concepts as: the constitution of space through perception, the sensorial and emotional experience of space and the atmosphere of a specific place, the sense of space, the meaning of feeling at home and being intimate with a particular place, the practice of home as a body extension. To nuance these ideas, I use results from four research projects I participated in: Couple living space in Brasov metropolitan area; Hidden faces of homelessness - Measuring homelessness in Europe; Inhabiting urban places and experiencing citizenship; I was a citizen of Stalin town. I conclude by extracting implications for the sociology of space field.
Catalina Ionela Rezeanu; Transilvania University of Brasov. Introduction to the Phenomenological Approach to Urban, Residential, and Domestic Space. Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences 2019, 6, 42 -56.
AMA StyleCatalina Ionela Rezeanu, Transilvania University of Brasov. Introduction to the Phenomenological Approach to Urban, Residential, and Domestic Space. Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences. 2019; 6 (2):42-56.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCatalina Ionela Rezeanu; Transilvania University of Brasov. 2019. "Introduction to the Phenomenological Approach to Urban, Residential, and Domestic Space." Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences 6, no. 2: 42-56.
Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu; Claudiu Coman; Angela Repanovici. Narrative Construction of Popularity Assessment Criteria on Weblogs: The Implications for Virtual Learning Environments. Book Power in Communication, Sociology and Technology 2018, 1 .
AMA StyleCătălina-Ionela Rezeanu, Claudiu Coman, Angela Repanovici. Narrative Construction of Popularity Assessment Criteria on Weblogs: The Implications for Virtual Learning Environments. Book Power in Communication, Sociology and Technology. 2018; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCătălina-Ionela Rezeanu; Claudiu Coman; Angela Repanovici. 2018. "Narrative Construction of Popularity Assessment Criteria on Weblogs: The Implications for Virtual Learning Environments." Book Power in Communication, Sociology and Technology , no. : 1.
Catalina-Ionela Rezeanu; Transilvania University of Brasov. Social Construal Maps to Study Territories within Home Space. 3rd Central & Eastern European LUMEN International Conference – New Approaches in Social and Humanistic Sciences | NASHS 2017| Chisinau, Republic of Moldova | June 8-10, 2017 2018, 1 .
AMA StyleCatalina-Ionela Rezeanu, Transilvania University of Brasov. Social Construal Maps to Study Territories within Home Space. 3rd Central & Eastern European LUMEN International Conference – New Approaches in Social and Humanistic Sciences | NASHS 2017| Chisinau, Republic of Moldova | June 8-10, 2017. 2018; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCatalina-Ionela Rezeanu; Transilvania University of Brasov. 2018. "Social Construal Maps to Study Territories within Home Space." 3rd Central & Eastern European LUMEN International Conference – New Approaches in Social and Humanistic Sciences | NASHS 2017| Chisinau, Republic of Moldova | June 8-10, 2017 , no. : 1.
The last decades have seen a growing trend towards researching intimacy. A considerable amount of literature has been published based on the reflexive transformation of intimacy framework. This paper starts from the premise that, recently, more and more scholars have criticized the idea that detraditionalization and individualization led to the transformation of intimacy during reflexive modernity (late modernity). Critics question the ability of late modernity concepts to offer a cross- cultural and nuanced image of contemporary particularities of private life and intimate relations. The purpose of this study is to show the current state of knowledge in the social sciences on individualization thesis and detraditionalization thesis, the main theoretical criticisms of the two theses and conceptual alternatives to them. To achieve these goals, we conducted an interpretive synthesis of 16 articles from international literature, published between 1999-2014, in the thematic area of social changes brought by late modernity into the domain of private life and intimacy. In the Introduction section, we briefly present the two theses as reflected in the two of the most cited books on these themes: The Transformations of Intimacy. Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies (Giddens, 1992) and The Normal Chaos of Love (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 1995). In the body of the paper, we synthesize the arguments sustaining the criticism of the two theses and show some conceptual alternatives to these criticisms, as stated in the literature. In the concluding section, we resume the main arguments to open directions for future studies.
Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu. Reflexive Transformation of Intimacy in Late Modernity Theories: Some Critiques and Conceptual Alternatives. 2017, 1 .
AMA StyleCătălina-Ionela Rezeanu. Reflexive Transformation of Intimacy in Late Modernity Theories: Some Critiques and Conceptual Alternatives. . 2017; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCătălina-Ionela Rezeanu. 2017. "Reflexive Transformation of Intimacy in Late Modernity Theories: Some Critiques and Conceptual Alternatives." , no. : 1.
Catalina-Ionela Rezeanu. Reflexive Transformation of Intimacy in Late Modernity Theories: Some Critiques and Conceptual Alternatives. Postmodern Openings 2016, VII, 35 -54.
AMA StyleCatalina-Ionela Rezeanu. Reflexive Transformation of Intimacy in Late Modernity Theories: Some Critiques and Conceptual Alternatives. Postmodern Openings. 2016; VII (1):35-54.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCatalina-Ionela Rezeanu. 2016. "Reflexive Transformation of Intimacy in Late Modernity Theories: Some Critiques and Conceptual Alternatives." Postmodern Openings VII, no. 1: 35-54.
The last two decades have seen a growing trend towards the research of voting behavior in post-communist countries. Urban sociology theorists state that not only space structures influence political participation, but also space structures are changing under the influence of global, local, and individual factors. The growing role played by information in the globalised world has accelerated the paradigm shift in urban sociology: from central place model (based on urban-rural distinction and on monocentric metropolitan areas) to network society (based on space of flows and polycentric metropolitan areas). However, recent studies have mainly focused on countries with solid democracies, rather than on former communist countries. The present study aims to analyze the extent to which a new emerging spatial structure can be envisaged within a metropolitan area of Romania and its consequences for the political dimensions of social capital. The Transilvania University Ethics Commission approved this study (S1 Aprouval). The research is based upon individual and aggregate empirical data, collected from the areas adjacent to the core city in Brașov metropolitan area. Individual data has been collected during October 2012, using the oral survey technique (S1 Survey), based on a standardized questionnaire (stratified simple random sample, N = 600). The National Institute of Statistics and the Electoral Register provided the aggregate data per locality. Unvaried and multivariate analyses (hierarchical regression method) were conducted based on these data. Some dimensions of urbanism, identified as predictors of the political dimensions of social capital, suggest that the area under analysis has a predominantly monocentric character, where the rural-urban distinction continues to remain relevant. There are also arguments favoring the dissolution of the rural-urban distinction and the emergence of polycentric spatial structures. The presence of some influences related to the information consumption on all six indicators of the political dimensions of social capital under analysis suggests the occurrence of emerging forms of a space of flows. The identified effects of social problems associated with transport infrastructure and of migration experience on the political dimensions of social capital, also support the emergence of space of flows. We recommend that, in the urban studies in former communist countries, conceptualization of urbanism as predictor of the political dimensions of social capital should consider both the material dimensions of space, as well as the dimensions of information consumption and migration experience.
Catalina-Ionela Rezeanu; Arabela Briciu; Victor-Alexandru Briciu; Angela Repanovici; Claudiu Coman. The Influence of Urbanism and Information Consumption on Political Dimensions of Social Capital: Exploratory Study of the Localities Adjacent to the Core City from Brașov Metropolitan Area, Romania. PLOS ONE 2016, 11, e0144485 .
AMA StyleCatalina-Ionela Rezeanu, Arabela Briciu, Victor-Alexandru Briciu, Angela Repanovici, Claudiu Coman. The Influence of Urbanism and Information Consumption on Political Dimensions of Social Capital: Exploratory Study of the Localities Adjacent to the Core City from Brașov Metropolitan Area, Romania. PLOS ONE. 2016; 11 (1):e0144485.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCatalina-Ionela Rezeanu; Arabela Briciu; Victor-Alexandru Briciu; Angela Repanovici; Claudiu Coman. 2016. "The Influence of Urbanism and Information Consumption on Political Dimensions of Social Capital: Exploratory Study of the Localities Adjacent to the Core City from Brașov Metropolitan Area, Romania." PLOS ONE 11, no. 1: e0144485.