Kristina Juraitė
Assoc. Professor, Head of the Department of Public Communications, Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy
Phone: +8 37 327 869
E-mail: k.juraite@pmdf.vdu.lt
Research interests: risk and environmental communication, visual culture, visual and social representations, migration discourse, journalism and communications ethics, public journalism, media literacy, audience research, comparative research methodology.
Courses taught: ''Visual Communication'', ''Media Research Methods'', ''Media Law and Ethics'', ''Ethics and Law in Integrated Communications'', ''Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods''.
Membership: member of several academic and professional associations (IAMCR: International Association for Media and Communication Research, BAMR: Baltic Association for Media Research, Lithuanian Sociology Association, Lithuanian Social Science Forum); editorial board member of scientific journals (“Journalism Research“, „Baltic Journal of Law and Politics“ and „Political Science Almanac”).
Other professional activities: Kristina Juraitė has extensive experience in project administration and coordination and has been actively involved in international research projects and networks, including Nordplus Program Network of Journalism Schools InterLinks10.Net (2005-2010), Estonian Science Foundation project Changing Journalism Cultures: A Comparative Perspective, Framework 6 Programme CINEFOGO: Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe – The Making of European Citizenship (2006-2009), COST Program A30 Action East of West: Setting up a Media Research Agenda for Central and Eastern Europe (2005-2009), Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation project RINOVA: Risk Perception, Public Communication and Innovative Governance in a Knowledge Society, Framework 6 Programme PROFIT: Policy Responses Overcoming Factors in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequalities (2004-2007), etc.
Most recent publications (2007-2009):
- Balčytienė A., Juraitė K. (2009). Impact of Economic and Cultural Factors on Television Production in Small Nations. Medijska istraživanja, Vol. 15, No. 2, p. 33-47. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
Balčytienė A., Nugaraitė A., Juraitė K. (2009, forthcoming). Journalism Training and Education in Lithuania. In: Terzis, G. (ed.). European Journalism Education. Intellect Books.
Juraitė K. (2009). Vaizdo komunikacijos iššūkiai šiuolaikinei žiniasklaidai. Žurnalistikos almanachas 2008.
Juraitė K. (2008).
Media Power in Lithuanian News Market Reconsidered. Informacijos mokslai, t. 47, p. 121-132.
Balčytienė, A., Juraitė, K., Reingardė, J. (2008).
Juraitė K., Kavaliauskas M. (2007). A Portrait of Kražiai: Global Tensions and Local Concessions. In: P.Faciolli and J.Gibbons. Landscapes and Identities: Visual Perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Press, p.103-125.
Juraitė K., Lauk E., Zelče V. (2009). The Profesionalization of journalism in the Baltic States: The origins of practice, structures and cultures (until 1940). In: L.Donskis (ed.). A Litmus Test: Case of Modernity. Peter Lang Publishing Group, p. 169-200.
Juraitė K. (2008). Media Power in Lithuanian news market reconsidered. Informacijos mokslai, T. 47, p. 121-132.
Balčytienė A., Juraitė K., Reingardė J. (2008). Summing-up: How to communicate Europe effectively? Sociologija: mintis ir veiksmas, Nr.3, p.115-121.
Pukelis K., Juraitė K., Mikutavičienė I., Mačiulskytė S. (2007). Transitional Stages in the Life of Young Adults in Jonava City: Education, Work, Family. European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion, Nr.1/2, p. 137-150.
Mikutavičienė I., Pukelis K., Juraitė K., Mačiulskytė S. (2007). Transmission of Inequality from Generation to Generation: Local Community Perspective. In: N. Genov (ed.). Comparative Research in the Social Sciences. Paris-Sofia: ISSC-REGLO, p. 48-55.
