Contributori / Contributors:
EON, vol. 7, nr. 3 / 2026

Corina DOMNARI is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social and Political Sciences, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the MEΘEXIS Journal for Research in Values and Spirituality, and Executive Director at the Institute for the study of values and spirituality. She is an Associate Member of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (Washington, D.C.). Her research interests include Byzantine Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, and Intercultural Philosophy. Her recent publications include "Self-knowledge as spiritual practice: the ontological self between Plotinus and Gregory Palamas". She has presented research papers at conferences and seminars in Cyprus, Rome, Romania, and Türkiye, including "Spiritual Practice as a Means for Conflict Resolution: Finding Certainty in Today's Challenging World" (International Conference: Searching Spiritual Values in Times of Uncertainty).

ALI BOUZEKRI is a Full Professor of Language Sciences at Ibn Khaldoun University, Algeria. He holds a PhD in Language Sciences and teaches courses in civilization and epistemology. His research focuses on political discourse analysis, online communication, the history of the West, and French as a Foreign Language (FLE). He also serves as a reviewer for several academic journals. His recent publications include works on argumentative discourse on Twitter, the construction of hegemonic ethos in Emmanuel Macron's discourse, and the history of the indigénat in colonial Algeria.

Sergiu BORTOȘ holds a PhD in Sociology, with research focusing on Fake News and Contemporary Political Misinformation. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Human Resources at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași.

Constantin C. LUPAȘCU holds a PhD in Philosophy, with research focusing on the History of Philosophy, particularly Ancient and Oriental Philosophy and Romanian Philosophy. He is a Corresponding Member of the British Institute of Persian Studies and a Member of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

Bogdan Alexandru MAN is currently a PhD candidate in political philosophy at the Doctoral School of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca – Baia Mare Center. His research topic is the influence of Protestantism on modern politics, with the critique of onto-theology representing one of the influences that shaped the evolution of the idea of political power. Bogdan earned his Bachelor's degree in Philosophy in 2007 from the University of North–Baia Mare and a Master's degree in Human Rights in 2021 from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca – Baia Mare Center. In 2008, he also obtained a Bachelor's degree in Nursing. In 2009, he completed an Erasmus exchange program at the University of Burgundy–Dijon. His areas of interest include the intersection of religion, politics, and philosophy.

Diana CÂMPAN, Professor PhD Hab. and PhD supervisor in the field of Philology, at the "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia (Department of Letters), is the director of the Centre for Philological Research and Multicultural Dialogue in Alba Iulia. Diana Câmpan is member of the Romanian Writers' Union (Sibiu) and the author of several volumes on literary criticism, literary history, and comparative literature, some of them published at the Romanian Academy Publishing House. She has published hundreds of studies and articles in scholarly and cultural journals both in Romania and abroad, and she is a co-author of more than 20 volumes on literary criticism and literary history. Her academic work focuses on several cultural fields and areas of study: the history of Romanian literature, culture, and civilization; comparative literature; literary criticism; philosophy of culture; theory of mentalities; philosophy; aesthetics.

Adriana-Cristina SĂVULESCU is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bucharest. She is a German teacher in Bucharest and teaches German as a native language. The German language and literature form the focus of her professional and academic interests. Her main areas of research include contemporary German-language literature, discourse and narrative studies, and topics relating to deception, identity and the construction of reality.

Ionela-Izabela OLARIU is a Master's student in The Romanian Language in a Romance Language Context, following the Romanian Language and Literature – Comparative Literature bachelor's program at the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. She attended several conferences, workshops and scientific communication sessions. Her academic interests include: phonetics, linguistics, syntax, semantics, comparative literature, as well as the multidisciplinary approaches to the field of literature, with special focus on metaphoric creativity.

Cipriana-Elena ÇAVAȘ is a lecturer dr. at the Department of Romanian Language, Romanian Culture and Civilization and General Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. She published several studies on contemporary Romanian language (morphology, syntax, lexicology, semantics, and stylistics). Essential works: Clasa substantivului în limba română contemporană (The Noun Class in Contemporary Romanian), 2018; O tipologie a relațiilor sintactice. Abordare contrastivă română și franceză (A Typology of Syntactic Relations. Romanian-French Contrastive Approach), 2018; O abordare morfosintactică și stilistică a operei lui Ion Creangă în școala românească (A Morphosyntactic and Stylistic Approach to Ion Creangă's Work in Romanian School), 2021; Dicționarul Aurarilor (The Dictionary of Goldsmiths), 2023; Particularitățile substantivului în cadrul grupului nominal. Compendiu (Peculiarities of the Noun within the Noun Group. Compendium), 2024. Her academic interests include: morphology, syntax, phonetics, as well as the interdisciplinary approaches to the contemporary Romanian language.

Claudia HOREANU is a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Communication Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania. Her academic background combines communication studies with medieval history and the history of mentalities. She has a long-standing interest in the intersections between cultural imagination, myth, and media. Her doctoral research explores the image of Vlad the Impaler (Țepeș), also known as Dracula, in popular culture, from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes history, anthropology, and semiotics. She is particularly interested in how historical figures become cultural symbols and how media narratives shape collective memory in contemporary society.

Alexandra BARDAN is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest. She received a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Sciences at Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3 with a dissertation about the alternative media market within the Romanian cultural industries during the '70s and '80s in Romania. Her current research explores media and social history in communist Romania, and she recently published the monography: PopCommunism în România. ParaTeleviziune (2025). București: Tritonic. She is currently working on a sequel focusing on the emergence of VCR and video practices during the same period.

Miruna-Alexandra CIOCHINĂ is a graduate of the Journalism programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Her bachelor's thesis, on which this article is based, examined the transformation of creativity in Romanian advertising in the transition from television to digital platforms. Her research interests include advertising creativity, digital media, viral content, and marketing communication.

Eduard-Claudiu GROSS is Assistant Lecturer, PhD, at the Department of Social Work, Journalism, Public Relations and Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. His research interests include digital media, communication, and journalism studies.