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This article deals with general and specific aspects of how Romanian media covered the African swine flu crisis between 2014 and 2018. The analysis was mainly based on the available ground of media framing theory. The mediatic tone of reporting the African swine flu predicament complies with the pre-crisis, crisis, and post-crisis stages, as identified in the literature. Concerning the Romanian media approach on the African swine flu subject, the economic consequences and the mediatic leadership frames proved to be strongly related to similar inter-human and zoonotic diseases. The Romanian coverage of epizootics' main frames indicates a detached approach to the subject with exciting variations regarding the connections between information units and the general norms of mediatic content. This research suggests a few remarkable aspects that hint at current changes in the journalistic paradigm and the need to acknowledge crisis communication's significance when dealing with epizootic diseases.

This study explores TV in Romania and Bulgaria, both considered "emerging" media systems in post-communist studies (Sparks, 1995). It uses Hallin and Mancini's (2004) framework to analyze the central aspects regarding the configuration of commercial TV. The study offers an institutional perspective on TV by exploring the licensing frame and the TV offer. The interaction between commercial TV, politics, and the state underlines the intricate relations through powerful and influential networks involving the interests of a variety of individuals and groups. Currently, commercial TV is the most developed type of media in both countries. Through its empirical contribution, this study fills in the blind spot of media research, aiming to contribute to the understanding of the Romanian and Bulgarian media landscape. It offers a critical perspective on TV systems in relation to the polarized pluralist/Mediterranean model of Hallin and Mancini, considering its explanatory function within the analysis of Eastern European media systems. Elements of the national markets revealed particularities of the TV business, synchronically connected to the contemporary "hyper-television" vision (Scolari, 2009) and the "informational disorder" paradigm (Tambini, 2020).

Articolul realizează o succintă descriere a apariției și dezvoltării media online, cu un focus descriptiv și de scurtă analiză asupra Social Media și al contextului mediatic global în care a izbucnit pandemia COVID-19, în 2019. De asemenea, sunt prezentate pe scurt cele două articole ce fac obiectul Secțiunii Speciale dedicate Social Media și rolului său în timpul pandemiei. Cuvinte-cheie: Social Media; mediul online; pandemia COVID-19 ●●●●● The article shortly presents the emergence and development of Online Media, with an accent on the description and analysis of Social Media and on the context regarding media in the moment of Covid 19 pandemic outbreak. It also introduces the two articles which are part of the Special Section dedicated to Social Media and its role during pandemic times. Keywords:Social Media, online space, COVID-19 pandemic