Valentina Marinescu took her PhD in Sociology at the University of Bucharest, with a dissertation entitled “Structural-Functional Transformation of the Relation between Media and Society in Romania after 1990”, and is Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest in the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in media and society, and methods of researching mass communication. Her research interests lie in media and gender studies in Eastern Europe, particularly in Romania. She was a fellow of Université de Montreal (Canada), University of British Columbia (Canada) and Academy of Korean Studies (South Korea). Her publications include: “Shade of Violence: The Media Role” (in Women’s Studies, 32, 2009); “Challenges of the European Information Market and Romanian Investigative Journalism” (in Media in the Enlarged Europe, Intellect Publishers Inc. 2009); “Communication and Women in Eastern Europe: Challenges in Reshaping the Democratic Sphere” (in Feminist International Communication Studies, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers 2007).