Political Communication and European Parliamentary Elections in Times of Crisis

Ruxandra Boicu is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania, where she is Head of the MA on Media and Communication. She has authored Dezbaterea electorala televizata [The Televised Electoral Debate] (2011) and other books and scholarly articles on political discourse, gender studies, verbal interaction in blogging, and diasporic media.Silvia Branea is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania. Her research interests include political communication, gender studies, and globalization. She has participated in prestigious international projects and is the author/co-author of several books and articles, including Romanian Journalists and Politics in 2004.Adriana Stefanel is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania. She won a postdoctoral scholarship in 2015 from University of Bucharest Research Institute to conduct research on populism and political discourse. She is the author of When the Stranger Become the Enemy: The Image of the Est-Europeans in Western-Europe Political Discourse (2014).