Dr. Raluca Fratiloiu

Communications

rfratiloiu@okanagan.bc.ca

Office B Building 117
Kelowna Campus

250-762-5445 ext. 4582

I am happy to wear two professional hats: College Professor of Communications and experimental game designer in my spare time. Raised in Romania under communism, I witnessed the fall of a dictator and the influx of the free market. Moving to Calgary as a graduate student, I continued my immigrant journey to Montreal where I gained my doctorate from Concordia. Mount St. Vincent in Halifax was my first full-time teaching role in a Public Relations program where I may have remained if it were not for several memorable powder days at Big White which brought me to the Okanagan in 2008.  

My teaching and my work are informed both by theory and practice. I teach and research across mass communication, rhetoric, and videogame studies, with an applied focus on public relations, digital media and storytelling, design and systems thinking, and serious games. I use games and digital media not just as objects of study, but as tools for persuasion, learning, and social impact. The same skills translate into my work as a department social media administrator, bargainer, committee member, or volunteer.

Above everything else, I continue to be a student. My current professional development is anchored in game design, UX/UI, and critical AI literacy.
 

Credentials:
PhD, Communication, Concordia University
MSc (With Distinction), Digital Media Design, University of Edinburgh
MA, Communication, University of Calgary
Certificate in Public Relations, McGill University
BA, Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Bucharest

www.ralucafrati.com