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Professor/Dean
The Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication
Bucharest University
1-3, Blvd. Iuliu Maniu
Bucharest, Romania
Fax/Phone: 401- 410- 0643
E-MAIL: mcoman@fjsc.ro
SITE: www.medianthropology.ro
AEJMC Directory of Mass Communication and Journalism
IAMCR Directory
EASA (http://www.easaonline.org/networkbiosa-f.htm)
Aurel Sassu, A Biografic Dictionary Of Romanian Writers, Bucuresti, Ed Paralela 45, 2006, vol 2
Romanian Academy of Sciences, The General Dictionary of Romanian Literature, Univers Enciclopedic, 2004, vol II
Iordan Datcu, Dictionary of Romanian Ethnologists, Cluj, Saeculum, 1998, vol. I
Ion Bogdan Lefter, Romanian Writers, Bucureşti, Paralela 45, vol I, 2000
Nicolae Ciobanu, Intilnire cu opera, Bucuresti, Ed.Cartea Romaneasca, 1982
More than 50 articles devoted to my books, in ethnological, sociological and literary publications
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Fagaras, on March, 26, 1953;
Married with Cristina Coman, father of Ioana (born on June, 28, 1986) and Ion (born on June, 25, 1989).
EDUCATION
PH. D. at the Bucharest University, 1985 (major: philology; minor: mythology);
M.A. at the Bucharest University, The Faculty of Literature, 1976;
B.A. at the “Radu Negru” High School, Fagaras, 1972;
French – excellent
English – good
Luceafărul award for literary criticism, 1976
MIX-FM Network award for coordinating the Handbook of Journalism, the first manual of journalism in Romania’s history, 2001
Formula AS award of Professional Excellence for the contribution to the development of journalism education in Romania, 2002
International Water Symposium award for coordinating a group of Romanian Student in realizing multimedia products on water in Romania, Cannes, 2003- http://www.symposium-h2o.com/english.html
The Cultural Contribution medal, awarded by the president of Romania, Traian Basescu, for distinguished activities in mass communication education and media studies, 2009 (http://www.fjsc.ro/Romana/ordinul.html)
AREA OF INTEREST
Media anthropology
Cultural anthropology (myth, ritual, religion, anthropology of modernity)
Media studies (sociology of the journalists, reception studies)
Media and post-communist transition
WORK EXPERIENCE
1990 - present: associate professor and professor at the Bucharest University, The Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication
2004 – present: Dean of The Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication (http://www.fjsc.ro/mihai_coman.htm)
2000 - 2004: Head of Media Department, The Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication
1998 - 2003: coordinator of the School of Journalism, PRO Foundation (Media PRO trust)
1990-1998: founding dean of The Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, created in January 1990 after the fall of the communist regime (“Coman has successfully pursued ties with Western European and American universities, has internationalized his program and built a curriculum that’s noteworthy. The school operates a truly professional journalism education program in an European context. Coman’s open-mindedness and clear view of Romanian journalism and its needs have made the journalism program one of the best in East and Central Europe” – Looking to the Future, a Survey of Journalism Education in Central and Eastern Europe, The Freedom Forum, 1995): “The School of Journalism at the University of Bucharest has conceptualized a curricular approach to journalism training that is, in fact, far ahead of the media they serve. The media in Romania are still trying to rethink their role and journalists are still trying to define some parameters that are professional (…) Coman, the dean of the University of Bucharest journalism school, says the attitude of the media toward the journalism school can be summarized as disdainful, ready to humiliate students and graduates and generally ignoring the educational institutions” (Ray Hiebert, Peter Gross, Remedial Education: the Remaking of Eastern European Journalists, in Journalism Education in Europe and North America (Romy Frolich, Christina Holtz-Bacha – eds, Hampton Press, 2003); for other opinions about the institution I built see Quotes on www.fjsc.ro)
1989-1990: editor at the “Ion Creanga” Publishing House;
1983-1989: reporter and (starting1986) lay out editor at “Scinteia Tineretului” daily
1976- 1983: teacher (Romanian Literature and French Literature) at a school in Bucharest;
ACCADEMIC ACTIVITIES
1990 - present: teaching at The Faculty of Journalism and Media Studies, University of Bucharest: Introduction to Mass Communication; Sociology of the Journalists; Crisis Communication (undergraduate level) and Media Anthropology (graduate level)
1998 – present: guest lecturer at the National School for Political Sciences, Cultural Anthropology Master, teaching The Anthropology of Myth and Ritual
2005 – Fulbright Scholar at The Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma: Graduate seminar Media, Myth and Ritual: an Introduction to Media Anthropology
2000 – 2001, visiting professor at Institut Fur Journalistik, Dortmund University, Germany - http://www.brost.org/index.php?text=12
1999 – Fulbright researcher at Department of Communication, California State University, USA (the subject of the project was “Political rituals and media discourse in post-communist era”) - http://www.csuchico.edu/pub/inside/archive/99_02_11/fulbright.html
1998-1999 – visiting professor at The Department of Communication of the University Stendhal, Grenoble3, France: Les medias et la construction symbolique de la realite (graduate and doctoral level), Les medias en l’Europe de l’Est (graduate level) –
http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/chaire_unesco/Invites/Presentation.htm#
1996 - visiting researcher at The Department of Communication of the University Paris XIII, France
1995 – visiting researcher at Centre National des Etudes en Telecomunications, Paris, France
1994 – USIA grantee at College of Mass Communication, University of South Carolina, USA
1993 - visiting professor at The Department of Communication, University of Quebec at Montreal: Technologies of Communication and Society - Media and the Modern Mythology (graduate level), The Construction of Information - Totalitarian and Liberal Models (undergraduate level)
1992 - The Faculty of Literature, Bucharest University: The Myth, Classical and Modern Theories (undergraduate level)
1991 - visiting professor at The Faculty of Literature, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca: Romanian Traditional Mythology (undergraduate level)
1999 – present: coordinating (for the first time in Romania) doctoral programs in media and communication studies
QUALITY EVALUATION
2009 – 2010: international expert for quality evaluation of journalism and mass communication programs in Belgium, for the Agence pour l’Evaluation de la Qualite de l”Enseignement Superieur
2008 – 2009: Expert for PHARE TVET 2005 program, quality evaluation of Romanian higher education system
2008 – present: member of the mass communication comission of the Romanian Council of Academic Titles Atestation
2007 – present: international expert for quality evaluation of Reseau Theophraste (evaluation of CESTI, Dakar, 20-27 ianuarie, 2007)
2006 – 2008: president of the mass communication comission of the Romanian Council of Academic Titles Atestation
2000 – 2002: member of the mass communication comission of the Romanian Council of Academic Titles Atestation
2006 – present: member of ARACIS (Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, institutional comission)
2004 – 2006: president of the comission for social sciences, political sciences and mass communication of ARACIS (Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
1994 - 2006: secretary of The Commission for Journalism and Political Sciences of the CNEAA (National Council for Academic Accreditation - http://www.cneaa.ro/comisii_content.htm#c13)
1998 - present: expert of The National Council of Scientific Research, for Sciences of Communications
Editor of “Media” series at Polirom Publishing House (45 books published until 1998 – see http://www.polirom.ro/cauta.cgi?action=cauta&class=search&domeniu=19
Member of the Advisory Board of the scientific journals Communication (Quebec), Reseaux (Paris), Journalism Studies (London),
Hermes (Paris), International Journal of Media and Foreign Affairs (USA)
Director of The Global Network, the scientific journal of The Central and Eastern European Schools of Journalism Network (1995 – 2001)
Director of Romania Review for Journalism & Comunication, since 2002
Member of the Board of EJTA (European Journalism Training Association), representing Central-Eastern European Schools of Journalism (1998-2000)
Founder member of Journet, the global training journalism network of UNESCO, since 1997
Associate member of ORBICOM, The UNESCO Network of Communication Chairs, since 1995
International member of AEJMC (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication), USA, since 1994
Member of IAMCR (International Association of Mass Communication Ressearch), since 1998
Member of AAA (American Association of Anthropology), since 2003
Member of ICA (International Communication Association), since 2004
1999 – 2000 – Director of the Grant type 5 of World Bank and Romanian Government for developing the master program “The management of media institutions (80,000 USD)
2004 – 2006 – Director (for Romania) of TRIMEDIAL Projekt Nr. D/04/B/F/PP-146 110, a 2004-2006 project financed by The European Union as a part of Leonardo da Vinci program
2006 – 2008 – Director for Romania of the European Comission grant: “Adequate Information Management in Europe” (AIM), Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 7, CORDIS (20, 000 E)
2009-2011 - Director of the grantul nr 914, Proiecte de cercetare exploratorie ale CNCSIS “Mass media democratic and responsible citizenship”
President of the organising comitee of the international conference “Models of/Models for Journalism and Communication: Change in Progress”, Bucuresti, 19-21 novembrie 2009
Member of the organising comitee of the international conference ”Frontieres, Communautes, Medias, Bucuresti, 11-13 june 2009”
Chairman of the section “La communaute des professionnels des medias”, of the international conference ”Frontieres, Communautes, Medias, Bucuresti, 11-13 june 2009”
Chairman of the section “Society and comunication”, of the international conference “PR TREND” Cluj, 27-28 march, 2009
Chairman at the workshop “Media effects and roles”, at the Franco-Romanian conference, Bucuresti, 26-29 june 2008
Chairman at the Panel “The European Public Sphere – a Reassesment of Concepts”, at the conferrence “AIMing at Europe: The EU and the Challenge of Communication, Brussels, February 28 – March 2
Chairman, Panel “Nationalising Media Events” at the conference “Media Events: Globalization and Cultural Change”, Bremen, Germany, Jully 6-7, 2007
Chairman at the workshop: How to Communicate?, Fifth Congress of the European Journalists Association, “Unknown Europe: Opportunities and Risks”, Bucharest, September 12-16
Panelist at The Second Workshop in the International Project on Quality of Student Assesment, Bucarest, 3-7 October
Chairman at the workshop “Theories on European Public Sphere”, la seminarul Adequate Information Management, Tartu, 1-3 iunie 2006
Chairman at the workshop “Topics”, la seminarul Adequate Information Management, Toulouse, 16-19 noiembrie, 2006
Chairman at the workshop “Contextes” la conferinta “Democratie participative en Europe”, Toulouse, 15-17 noiembrie 2006
Chairman of “The Anthropology of Media and Communication” workshop at the International Conference of Francophone researcher in Communication, Bucharest, June, 2003
Chairman of “Uses and Users” Workshop at International Conference “2001 Bugs – Globalism and Pluralism”, Montreal, April, 2002
Organizer of European Journalism Training Association annual general meeting in Bucharest, June, 2001
Organizer and chairman of the seminar “Media and Cultural Anthropology”, Dortmund, 2001
Speaker at the UNESCO conference “Media and the Education for Peace and Tolerance”, Sofia, October, 2000
Panelist at the International Pilot-Conference “Trans-Integration of European Communication Landscape”, Dortmund, Germany, May 2000
Panelist at the International Seminar “Media Concentration and Pluralism”, Bucharest, May, 1998
Panelist at the UNESCO seminar "Media Legislation in Eastern Europe", Paris, March, 1997
Panelist at the debates: “Creating Partnership. Educating a New Generation of Journalists in Central and Eastern Europe” and “Expanding Boundaries of International Journalism Education” at the American Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention, Atlanta, USA, 1994;
Academic Respondent at the Panel “Public Opinion, Education and Political Learning", at the Conference on National Reconciliation in Comparative Perspective, Bucharest, 1994;
Member of the Organizing Committee of the international symposium “The Transition in Romania - Communication and Quality of Life”, June, 1993;
Chairman of the session “The Journalistic Discourse after the Fall of Communism: Mythologies, Narratives and Symbols” at the international symposium “Media and Transition in Eastern and Central Europe”, Bucharest, June, 1992;
Chairman of the session “Symbolic Images on Romania” at the international symposium “The Image of Romania in Western Media”, Cluj, May, 1992;
Secretary of the Cultural Anthropology Workshop of The American-Romanian Academy Congress, Bucharest, June, 1991
Founder member of The Romanian Society of Cultural Anthropology (1990)
First president of The Student’s Society of Folklore (1974)
SCIENTIFIC LECTURES
La formation en journalisme: distances et proximities, “International Workshop on Media Professionalism”, Tblisi, 14-15 december 2009
Journalisme et qualité de l’information face à la convergence des médias et la concentration de la propriété, international conference “Ethique et deontologie journalistique: enseignements pratiques”, Rabat, 10-11december 2009.
How Can Someone Trust a Corrupted Media, international conference “Media and Transition in Regional and Global Context: Balkan Perspectives”, Sofia, 2-3 december, 2009
From the Heroes of Revolution to the Media Moguls, international conference “The Future of Journalism”, Cardiff, 9-11 september 2009
Journalistic Elites in Post-Communist Romania, international conference “Beyond East and Vest”, Budapesta, 25-27 june 2009
Media and Ritual: a Challenge for the Anthropological Thought, at The 59th Annual ICA Conference – Keywords in Communication, Chicago, 21-25 may, 2009
Spaţiul public simbolic. Cultura politică şi cultura popular international conference “PR TREND” Cluj, 27-28 march
Les elites journalistiques post-communistes de la presse: des heros de la revolutions aux magnats des medias, international conference ”Etat et evolution des medias après les changements de 1989 dans les pays d’Europe Centrale et Orientale”, Sofia, 5-7 december 2008
Regards anthropologiques sur les medias, Universite de Grenoble, GRESEC, 22 may 2008
L’anthropologie des medias, Universite de Grenoble, GRESEC, 21 may 2008
"Les pratiques d’évaluation et d’autoévaluation au sein de l’université",
at Université Cadi Ayyad (as a part of TEMPUS program “La Management de l’Universite par la Qualite”, 27 march 2008
The slogan of “the press freedom” and the blackmail – an anthropological perspective, at the international conference “PR Trend”, Cluj, 15-17 november 2007
Liminality in Media Events, Panel 18 (Theoretical Perspectives on Media Events”) at the conference “Media Events: Globalization and Cultural Change”, Bremen, Germany, Jully 6-7, 2007
Post-communism paradoxes: Freedom of expression as an alibi for non-professionalism at the conferrence “Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe”, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 14-16 februarie http://www.fh-oow.de/projekte/plus/workshop.html
L’experience roumanie en matiere de certification, Les Assises du Reseau Theophraste, Seminaire d’aprofondissement de la methodologie de certification, Bucarest, 26-27 septembre 2006
Media and Ritual: The Application, Extension and Reformulation of an Anthropological Concept at 56th Annual Conference of International Communication Association “Anthropology, Mass Communication and Media Studies: A Dialogue on Theory, Methods and Disciplinary Practices” Dresden, June, 2006 Mythic Proportions: News, Imagination and Foreig-ness – with Meta Carstaphen - at 56th Annual Conference of International Communication Association “Understanding Foreign Correspondents: An Euro-American Handbook of Concepts, Methodologies and Theories” Dresden, June, 2006
Media Anthropology or The Anthropology of Mass Media at 55th Annual Conference of International Communication Association “What Is Media Anthropology For? Perspectives on Communication, Media, Cultural Practice and Ethnography”, New York, May, 2005
Mass Media and Myth – A Processual Approach at 54th Annual Conference of International Communication Association, “Ritual, Myth and Power: Debating the Central Concepts of Media Anthropology”,NewOrleans,May,2004 http://convention.allacademic.com/ica2004/session_info.html?c_session_id=56&dtr_id=302
L’evolution de l’enseignement du journalisme en Roumanie, au seminaire international “L’enseignement du Journalisme par les TIC”, Tunis, 14-14 novembre, 2005
Who’s Affraid of Media Anthropology - conference at Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, April 12, 2005
http://www.tamu.edu/chr/Programs_Activities/cosponevents.html
La formation au journalisme en Roumanie –le systeme d’accreditation academique, at the conference “Les dix ans de Theophraste a Liile”, Lille, France, 23-25 octobre, 2004
The Statute of journalists – the Week Link of the Media Transition, at the regional conference “The Relation between Employers and Employees in the Media”, Bucharest, December, 2003
Public Relations, Advertising and Propaganda: Romanian Private Universities and their Campaigns of Communication, at the International Conference on Public Relations – An Instrument for Transformation and Development of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe, Poznan, May, 2003
Key Indicators in Media Research in Romania, at European Network on Trans-Integration Research (ENTIRE) conference, Dortmund, April, 2003
Temps, mythe et evenement, at the conferrence « Les temps des medias », INA, Paris, July, 2002
http://www.ina.fr/forum/coman.en.html
Mythe et medias de crise, at the Romanian-French conferrence « Communication, croyances et civilisations », Bucarest, June, 2002
Professionalism – Turning an Ideology “objective”, at European Network on Trans-Integration Research (ENTIRE) conference “Defining Key Indicators in the Field of Media and Communication Research in Europe”, Dortmund, May, 2002
Media anthropology – A Symbolic Perspective on Public Sphere at International Conference “2001 Bugs – Globalism and Pluralism”, Montreal, April, 2002
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/gricis/even/bog2001/b2_pr_f.htm
Pour une anthropologie des medias at the Romanian-French conferrence « Medias, nouvelles technologies et redifinition des territoires de la communication », Bucarest, June, 2001
Medias et rituels politiques: l’espace public sous le signe de l’interogation at the Romanian-French conference “Les mises en scene mediatiques et la construction de l’espace publique”, Bucarest,, Jully, 2000
Les journalistes et les representations sociales de la realite, at Universite “Paul Valery”, Montpellier, France, 1999
Les medias et la construction symbolique de la realite, at Universite Lyon-2, France, 1999
L’image de la revolution roumaine de 1989 dans les medias francais, at Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1999
Romanian Journalists between the Political Pressures and the Mythology of the Profession, at the French-Romanian colloquim "Les enjeux de la communication politique", Bucarest, July, 1997
De la télévision d'état à la télévision privée. Le declin de la télévision généraliste en Roumanie ? to UFR des Sciences de la Communication, Université Paris XIII, France, 1996
La fonction sociale des journalistes en Roumanie, at the colloquim "Le journaliste, acteur de socièté", Lille, 1996
The Journalistic Discourse and the Symbolic Construction of Reality, at the international symposium "Culture in Media, Media in Culture", Krakow, 1996
Romanian Journalists and their Role Conception, at the international symposium “Media Elite in Turmoil - The Proces of Restructuring in Eastern Europe”, Brasov, Romania, 1994
Romanian Journalism in a Transition Period, at the international symposium “Social Communication in Changing Central Europe”, Krakow, Poland, 1993
The Demonstrations of the University Square as a Liminal Ritual, at the symposium “History and Myth”, Bucharest, Romania, 1993
Is Our Audience as We Imagine It?, at the international meeting “The Romanian Language as a Mean of Communication in Radio”, Costinesti, Romania, 1993
Dismembering, Remembering - The Romanian Case, at the international symposium “The Transition in Romania”, Bucharest, Romania, 1993
Cultural Distortions in Social Communication, at The First International Conference of The Free Psychiatrists’ Association, Bucharest, Romania, 1992
Is Our Media The Fourth Estate?, at the international conference “Media, Public and Power”, Costinesti, Romania, 1992
Power and Carnival, at the international symposium “Media and Transition in East and Central Europe”, Bucharest, Romania, 1992
Naissance d’un contre-mythe: les mythologies du discours mediatique au sujet de la Roumanie, at the international symposium ”The Image of Roumania in Western Media”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1992
Assimmetry and Genesis in Romanian Mythology, at The American-Romanian Academy Congress, Bucharest, Romania, 1991
More than 25 lectures at Romanian colloquia and seminars organized by different scientific and academic institutions (1974-1999)
PUBLIC LECTURES
Regards anthropologiques sur les medias, Universite de Grenoble, GRESEC, 22 may 2008
L’anthropologie des medias, Universite de Grenoble, GRESEC, 21 may 2008
Mass media in Romania, at Institutul Cultural Roman (Romanian Cultural Institute), Budapest, 17 april 2008 (http://www.icr.ro/filiale/evenimente_a.php?cod=762&cod_filiala=25)
Les medias et le mythe – public conferrence “Mitti e riti nelle narrazioni dei mass media”, Centro Zaffiria, Rimini, Italia, aprilie 2006
The Future of European Journalism Education, at the Conference of Regional Media in Europe, Chania, Greece, 1999
The Creation of a School of Journalism: Pressures Exerted Upon the Faculty of Jornalism of Bucharest University, at EJTA Conference, Maastrich, 1998
Mass-Media Relations for Charities and Fundraising Worldwide: Eastern Europe, at The 14th International Fundraising Workshop, Noordwij, Neederlands, 1994
Media in Post-Communist Romania, at The College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of South Carolina, USA, 1993
Media in Post-Communist Romania, at The Center for Russian and East European Studies, Toronto, Canada, 1993
Médias, totalitarisme et démocratie, at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada, 1993
Le journalisme dans l’Europe de l’Est, at The High Schoolof Journalism, Lille, France, 1992
Bucharest-Lille: A Model of a Twining Program in Journalism Training, at The Annual Meeting of The European Journalism Training Association, Maastrich, Neederlands, 1992
The Role of Journalism in Post-Communist Romania, at The Communication Studies Department, Concordia University, Canada, 1992
JOURNALISTIC ACTIVITIES
1976 - present: more than 500 articles (essays, chronicles, columns, newsstories, interviews) in Romanian dailies, weeklies, literary magazines and scientific reviews; numerous interviews and talk-shows at radio and television.
1991: Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Zig-Zag”
1993 - 1997: member of The Association of Francophones Journalists
BOOKS
The Roots of Myth, 1980, Bucharest, Cartea Româneasca Publishing House, 302 p. (“The young author is a scientist, a real one”- Sorin Titel, Romania Literara, June, 6, 1981; “In this field, in which Romanian studies have had a noteworthy tradition, a young researcher comes in now to continue with an unquetionable force, that tradition.”- Constantin Crisan, Romania Libera, May, 16, 1981);
The Sister of Sun, 1983, Bucharest, Albatros Publishing House, 195 p. (“This book is a real spectacle, it has life, it has the pulse of a living body”- Ion Zubascu, Tribuna, August, 9, 1983);
Mitos and Epos, 1985, Bucharest, Cartea Romaneasca Publishing House, 236 p. (“In an interdisciplinary field, between folklore studies, cultural anthropology and theory of literature, this book builds up a solid and fascinating structure.”- Silvian Iosifescu, Contemporanul, January, 17, 1986);
Romanian Traditional Mythology, Bucharest, Minerva Publishng House; the 1st. vol. -”The Beasts of the Earth and Water”, 1986, 233 p.; the 2nd vol. -”The Beasts of the Sky”, 1988, 196 p. (“For the first time in our culture, Mihai Coman has offered a synthesis of the Romanian traditional mythology based on modern and scientific methods.”-H.H. Sthal, Contemporanul, May, 22, 1987; “The most interesting par of this book is the last section: here the author shows the syntax of the Romanian mythology. Based on Roman Jakobson distinction between metaphor and metonimy, Mihai Coman elaborates a table of combinations, which explains why some conections of mythological figures are materialized by the Romanian folklore, with what type of signification and why other combinations are impossible in that system of symbols.”- Ioana Bot, Tribuna, September, 6, 1988); a new version reprinted as The Romanian Mythological Bestiary, Bucarest, Ed. Fundatiei Culturale Romane, 1997, 262 p.
The Point and the Spiral, Bucharest, Eminescu Publishing House, 1992, 181 p.;
The Side Scenes of the Fourth Power –An Introduction to Mass Media, Bucharest, Carro Publishing House, 1996, 196 p. ("Just like any introduction, this one has a main goal: to present clearly, in an easy to understand manner, the basic features of the media system, which are complex and, sometimes, obscures. It wants to be a guide which, after showing you how to walk and which way to choose, leaves you alone to enjoy by yourself the world you have just discovered" - D. Frumusani, The Review of Social Sciences, no. 2, 1997)
Introduction to Mass Communication, Iasi, Ed. Polirom, 1999, 240 p. Second edition, 2004. (“This book offers an overview of the economic, sociological, cultural and political theories explaining how media is functioning. It is a tool giving students and journalists the opportunity both to understand how this fied is working and to master the concepts sustaining the professional debates” – G. Stanciulescu, Ziua, 27-01-2000)
Pour une anthropologie des medias, Grenoble, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2003 (http://www.pug.fr/Titre.asp?Num=741)
“L'ouvrage, organisé en deux parties, rassemble d'une manière transversale à cette organisation, deux plaidoiries: l'une de nature apologétique en faveur de l'approche anthropologique comme méthode alternative de collecte et de traitement de l'information (…), l'autre de nature revendicative pour la reconnaissance de l'anthropologie des médias comme composante distincte du champ plus large de l'anthropologie de la communication. Ces deux plaidoiries reposent, d'une part, sur la mise en exergue des recherches qui concernent les médias d'information et qui relèvent d'une manière plus ou mois assumée d'approches anthropologiques et, d'autre part, sur une tentative de cadrage théorique de la démarche anthropologique dans l'étude des medias”. (Stefan BRATOSIN, Sciences de la Societe, n° 61, fév. 2004)
“Le foisonnement des rappels theoriques, methodologiques, epistemologiques et la pluralite des propositions conceptuelles restes impossibles a enumerer, ne serrait-ce qu’a demi (…) Cependant, une fois n’est pas coutume, nous pouvons mentionner a lţegard des valeurs documentaires, l’impressionante revue de litterature erigee ici. L’on doute qu’il puisse se trouver ailleurs un panorama a ce point exhaustif et multiculturel des sources et ressources en anthropologie de la communication, sinon en sciences de la communication” (MARIA POURCHET, Question de communication, no. 7, 2005)
Mass Media in Post-Communist Romania, Iasi, Polirom, 2003
Media, Myth and Ritual, Iasi, Polirom, 2003
Media in Romania (A Sourcebook), Berlin, Vistas Verlang, 2004
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3897331152/gallileus-21/302-0370113-1637627
Media and Journalism in Romania (with Peter Gross), Vistas, Bochum, 2006
(http://www.vistas.de/vistas/schriftenreihen_detail/MEDIA_AND_JOURNALISM__IN_ROMANIA/379/detail.html)
Intoduction to Cultural Anthropology: Myth and Ritual, Iasi, Polirom, 2008
Studies of Mythology, Bucarest, Nemira, 2009
Handbook of Journalism (Mihai Coman), Iasi, Ed. Polirom, vol I – 1998, vol II – 1999; second edition in 2001ș third edition in 2009 (“This handbook is a remarkable event. It is a synthesis of American and French experience, adapted to Romanian traditions. The manual edited by Mihai Coman has the quality asked by the incredible explosion of mass media in Romania” – I. Zubascu, Romania Libera, 13-11-1997)
Media Anthropology (with Erich Rothenbuhler), Sage (2005) http://www.sagepub.com/BookItems.aspx?pid=10983&sc=1
Media, political life and entertainement, (with Mihaela Paun), Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2008
Legende despre flori si pasari - antologie de Ioan Serb, Bucuresti, Ed. Minerva, 1990
Culegerea si redactarea stirilor de Peter Gross, Timisoara, Editura de Vest, 1993
Gandirea comunicationala de Bernard Miege, Bucuresti, Cartea Romaneasca, 1997
Jurnalistul universal de David Randal, Iasi, Ed Polirom, 1998
Manual de jurnalism (I si II), Iasi, Ed Polirom, 1996 si 1999
Introducere in etica si legislatia presei de Miruna Runcan, Bucuresti, Ed ALL, 1998
Colosul cu picioare de lut – aspecte ale presei romanesti post-comuniste de Peter Gross, Iasi,Ed Polirom, 1999
Societatea cucerita de comunicare de Bernard Miege, Iasi, Polirom, 2000
Cultură şi comunicare, Jean Caune, Ed. Cartea Românească, 2000
Concepte fundamentale în ştiinţele comunicării şi studiile culturale, Tim O’Sullivan et alii, Iasi, Polirom, 2001
Mass media si democratia in tarile din Europa de Est, Peter Gross, Iasi, Polirom, 2004
Publicitate si mitologie, Madalina Moraru, Bucuresti, Nemira, 2009
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Le coq dans la mythologie populaire roumaine, in vol. “Symbolique et folklore du coq”, Bruxelles, Fondation Albert Marinus, 1993, p. 55-62
http://www.woluwe1200.be/francais/loisirs/culture/fondation_marinus/fond.mar6.asp
Romanischer Journalismus in Einer Ubergangperiode, in G. Hallemberg, M. Krzeminski (ed), “Osteuropa - Medienlandschaft im Umbruch”, Berlin, Vistas,1995
La transition en Roumanie dans la perspective de Victor Turner in Roger Tessier (ed), « La transition en Roumanie - communication et qualite de la vie », Montreal, Presse de l’Universsite du Quebec 1995
Les mass medias dans la transition roumaine, in Roger Tessier (ed), « La transition en Roumanie - communication et qualite de la vie », Montreal, Presse de l’Universsite du Quebec 1995
The Metamorphosis of The Intelectual Myth. The case of Mircea Eliade, in J. M. Pomorskiego, Z. Bajki (ed), “Valeriana: Essays on Human Communication in honour of Valery Pissarek”, Krakow, 1996
The Third Elite, in Ph. Glenn, O. Soltys (ed), “Media'95”, Prague, Charles University Press, 1996
Les Journalistes roumains et leur idéologie professionelle, en K. Feigelson, N. Pelissier (ed), "Télé-révolutions culturelles: Chine, Europe Centrale, Russie", Paris, Ed. L'Harmattan, 1998
Pour une anthropologie des medias, in Ion Dragan (ed), « Medias, nouvelles technologies et redifinitions de la communication », Bucarest, Tritonic, 2002
Une approche symbolique de l’espace public, in Bernard Miege, Gaetan Tremblay (ed), « 2001 Bogues : globalisme et pluralisme », vol 1 (« TIC et societe »), Laval, Les Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2003
Temps, mythe et evenement, in « Television, memoire et identite nationale », Paris, L’Harmattan, 2003
La television generaliste dans les pays de l’Europe de l’Est face aux nouveaux medias, in P. Moeglin, G. Tremblay (ed), « La television generaliste en declin ? », Paris, Harmattan, 2005
Cultural Anthropology and Mass Media : A Processual Approach in « Media Anthropology” (eds: Erich Rothenbuhler, Mihai Coman), Sage (2005) - http://www.sagepub.com/BookItems.aspx?pid=10983&sc=1
New Stories and Myth – the Impossible Reunion, in in « Media Anthropology” (eds: Erich Rothenbuhler, Mihai Coman), Sage (2005) –
http://www.sagepub.com/BookItems.aspx?pid=10983&sc=1
Massenmedien in Rumänien-zwischen politischer und der wirtschaftlicher Kontrolle, in Balaban D.C./Rus F.C., Medien, PR und Werbung in Rumänien, Mittweida Hochschulverlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809598-0, pag. 11-24.
Liminality in Media Studies, in VICTOR TURNER AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL PERFORMANCE, Edited by Graham St John, Oxford, Berghahn, 2008 http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=StJohnVictor
Vedeta si patron – dublul statut al elitelor din mass-media postcomunista, in Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu, Mihaita Lupu (coord), Mobilitatea elitelor în România secolului al XX-lea, Bucuresti, Paralela 45, 2008
A Media Anthropological View: Myths, Legends, Stereotypes and Multiple Symbolic Identities of Journalists, in Oliver Hahn, Roland Schroeder (coord), Jurnalistiche Kulturen: Internationale und interdisziplinare Theoriebaunsteine, Koln, Halem Verlang, 2008
L’Ethnographie de la communication in Riondet, Odile, Popescu Dana (coord), Identites culturelles, communication, pratiques mediates, București, Ed. Comunicare.ro, 2009
Press freedomand media pluralism in Romania: facts, myths and paradoxes, in Andreea Czepeck, Melanie Helwig, Ewa Novak (ed), Press Freedom and Press Pluralism in Europe: concepts and conditions, Bristol, Intellect, 2009 (p. 177-196)
Les elites postcommunistes de la presse, in Medias en Europe Centrale et Orientale après 1989 (actes du colloque international “Etat et evolution des medias après les changements de 1989 dans les pays de l”Europe Centrale et Orientale”, Sofia, 5-7 decembre 2008), Sofia, Le monde diplomatique, 2009
STUDIES PUBLISHED in FOREIGN LANGUAGES
L’ombre et le reflexe - a la recherche d’un personnage mythologique, in « Analele Universitatii
Bucuresti - Limba si literatura romana », Bucuresti, 1980;
Fantastique, Mythe et Folklore, in « Revue Roumaine, Bucuresti », 1983, no 2-3;
Suggestion for a Myth of the Snake-God, in “Revista Romana, Bucuresti”, 1990, no 2-3;
Dérapage mèdiatique ou dérapage culturel, in « MediasPouvoirs », Paris, 1992, no 26;
Mythologie roumaine du guerrier et substrat indoéuropéén, in « Etudes indoéuropéénnes », Lyon, 1992, 11-e année;
La chasse héroique, in « Etudes et documentes balcanique et méditeraneens », Paris, 1992, no 16;
Medias, Mythes et rites de passage, in « Communication - revue quebecoise des recherches et des pratiques en communications et informations », Quebec, 1992, vol 13, no 2;
Les assymetries constitutives, in « Kurier », Bochum, 1992, no 17;
Naissance d’un contre-mythe (la Roumanie, decembre 1989, dans la presse francaise), in « Reseaux », Paris, 1993, no 59;
Power and Carnival (with Alina Caranfil), in “Romanian Journal of Sociology”, Bucuresti, 1993, no. 2;
The 1992 Presidential-Parliamentary Elections in Romania’s Largest Circulation Dailies and Weeklies, (with Peter Gross), in “Gazette”, 1994, no 3;
La victime et la vainqueur - la construction mythologique de la visite du roi Mihai en Roumanie dans le discours de la presse nationale, in « Reseaux », Paris, 1994, no 66;
Romanian Journalism in Transition Period, in “The Global Network”, Bucuresti, 1994, no 1;
La cosmogonie folklorique et les mondes à l’envers, in « Ethnologie française », no 3, 1995
Médias et cérémonies politiques, in « Socièté et médiatisation, actes du deuxiemme colloque roumain-francais », Bucarest, 1995
L'événement rituel: médias et cérémonies politiques, in « Reseaux », Paris, no 76, 1996; english version: Victim or Victor? Mythologisation by tje Local Press of King Mihai's Visit to Romania, in “Reseaux - The French Journal of Communication”, vol 5, no 1, 1997
De la télévision d'état à la télévision privée. Le declin de la télévision publique en Roumanie, in « Socièté et médiatisation, actes du troisièmme colloque roumain-francais », Bucarest, 1996
L'élite fragile: les journalistes roumains entre l'illusion du pouvoir et l'absence de responsabilité, in « Les cahiers du journalisme », Lille, no. 2, 1996
Les programmes occidentaux de télévision dans l’Europe de l’est, in “Réseaux” Paris, no. 78, 1996
www.enssib.fr/autres-sites/reseaux-cnet/78/07-coman.pdf
Liminality Stages in post-communist societies: Media and Social Change in Romania, in “Romanian Journal of Sociology”, no. 1-2, 1999
Developments in Journalism Theory about Media "Transition" in Central and Eastern Europe (1990-1999), in “Journalism Studies”, nr. 1, vol. 1, 2000 –
dx.doi.org/10.1080/146167000361168 -
Le concert de Michael Jackson a Bucarest – un rituel de purification, in http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/chaire_unesco/Textes/Coman.htm
Public Relations, Advertising and Even Some Propaganda : Romanian Private Higher Education Institutions and Their Communication Campaigns, in « Higher Education in Europe », vol. 28, nr. 4, 2003 - www.cepes.ro/publications/pdf/hee_eng_pdf/he4_03.pdf
Media Bourgeoisie and Media Proletariat in Post-Communist Romania, in “Journalism Studies”, vol. 5, no. 1, 2004
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ routledg/rjos/2004/00000005/00000001/art00004
Des modeles et des experiences : la formation au journalisme en Roumanie, in « Vers une certification internationale des centres de formation au journalisme francophone – actes du colloque », Lille, 2004
Romanian television and the challenges of European integration, in « Trends in Communication », vol.12, no. 4, 2004
Le systeme roumain au crible de la professionalisation, in Les Cahiers du Journalisme, sept, 2005
TRAINING ACTIVITIES
Lecturer at various media relation training program for Romanian charities and democratic NGO’s, at The 14th International Fundraising Workshop, Noordwij, Neederlands, 1994, at Unilever, GlaxoKline, European Foods, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs etc. and on adult trainig programs organized by FJSC (1996-present)
COMMUNITIES ACTIVITIES
1993 - 1996: Chairman of the Management Board of “Pentru copiii nostri”, the largest charity non-guvernamental organization devoted to the improvement of the life conditions of Romanian orphanages
Mountain
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Volleyball
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