Two JFDP Scholars Visiting UNC from January to May 2009

a Kresimir Krolo, JFDP scholar of Sociology from Croatia

    "My research interest is generally concentrated on understanding the role of the new media in society. In order to fully grasp all dimensions and processes involved in these relations my professional development is devoted to obtaining multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological knowledge, primarily from media studies, cultural studies and sociology. I am also very interested in exploring the development of new forms of youth cultures and movements that are connected with the rise of new technologies and media. This includes virtual communities, MMO gaming communities, and other forms of the cybercultures. Lately, I have been exploring researches from different scientific fields concerning the influence of media violence on youth violence, as well as the analysis of moral panics that are developing around these phenomena."
MENTOR: Andrew Perrin, Associate Professor, Sociology


a Gubad Bayramov, JFDP scholar of Economics from Azerbaijan

    "The academic areas that I would like to focus while I am at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be covering mainly the academic fields of Economic Research, Functional price research, Financial research of corporations, and Auditing Management. My research interest will also cover the analysis of Azerbaijani oil revenues, management of these revenues and their application on the social-economic effects. I will be mainly focusing on the countries that also dependent on the oil revenues, in other words, the petro-states, and approach their positive and negative experiences and later on compare these experiences in order to demonstrate the retrospective analysis and the observations of the oil dependancy in Azerbaijan. Moreover, my research interest will also be focused on the topics of the future development of Azerbaijani economy and creation of an economic model for prospective analysis."

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MENTOR: Patrick Conway, Professor, Economics


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