Vlad BĂTRÂNU-PINȚEA

Lecturer 
Department of Social Sciences and Communication
Faculty of Sociology and Communication

Contact:

Eroilor 25, Brașov, Romania
Building T, Room TII9
Phone.: 0771308604
E-mail: vlad.batranu@unitbv.ro

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Research interests:

  • Social Media and gamification
  • Social movements and cultural impact
  • Semiotics and contemporary modern phenomena
  • Public relations

Publications (selection)

  • BĂTRÂNU-PINȚEA, Vlad (2025), *Applied Informatics for Social Sciences and Communication*, Presa Universitară Clujeană Publishing House, ISBN: 978-606-37-2524-1.
  • Țîru CM, Coman C, Dalban CM, Bătrânu-Pințea V, Anton M, Gherheș V, Obadă D-R and Otovescu A (2026) Multidimensional analysis of conventional and electronic cigarette consumption among students. Front. Psychol. 16:1724372. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1724372 
  • Dalban, C. M., Coman, E., Bătrânu-Pințea, V., Anton, M., Para, I., & Mazuru, L. I. (2026). Mapping European Countries’ Resilience to Cognitive Warfare. Administrative Sciences, 16(3), 160. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci16030160 
  • COMAN, C., Dalban, C. M., Bătrânu-Pințea, V., Aron, G., & Marina, L. (2026). Comparative Performance of AI-Generated Fake News Detection Pipelines on Romanian News Content. Information, 17(7), 698. https://doi.org/10.3390/info17070698     
  • COMAN, Claudiu, MESEȘAN-SCHMITZ, Luiza, DOBRESCU, Ada & BĂTRĀNU-PINțEA, Vlad (2025) How did the Beatles impact cultural movement on different generations? Front. Commun. 9:1525016. two: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1525016,
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1525016/full