
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- Room
- M8-41
- dumitrica@eshcc.eur.nl
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Delia Dumitrica recently joined Erasmus University's Department of Media and Communication as an Assistant Professor in Political Communcication.
Delia Dumitrica's research interests focus on novel practices of civic engagement through social media. She is a co-investigator in the project entitled: Social Media and Civic Culture: Investigating Emerging Practices of Democratic Participation in Canada(funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada).
Delia Dumitrica is also doing research on the intersection between communication technology, nationalism and globalization.
Prior to joining Erasmus University, Delia Dumitrica has studied, lived and taught in five different countries across two continents (Romania, Hungary, Norway, Canada and Spain). She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Calgary, Canada. Her dissertation examined the discursive construction of the Internet in Canadian policy and media, as compared to everyday understandings of this technology.
- L. Van Driel & D.D. Dumitrica (2020). Selling Brands while Staying “Authentic”: The Professionalization of Instagram Influencers. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. doi: 10.1177/1354856520902136
- D.D. Dumitrica & G. Gaden-Jones (2020). Developing the ‘Control Imaginary’: TIME Magazine’s Symbolic Construction of Digital Technologies. International Journal of Communication (online), 14 (24), 2519-2542.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2020). Voice and Listening in Social Media Facilitated Activist Collectives. The Canadian Review of Sociology, 57 (4), 582-603. doi: 10.1111/cars.12302
- D.D. Dumitrica & M. Felt (2019). Mediated Grassroots Collective Action: Negotiating Barriers of Digital Activism. Information, Communication and Society (online). doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1618891
- D.D. Dumitrica (2019). Facebook and cultural identity: discourses on mediation among international students. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (print), 15 (3), 303-322.
- D.D. Dumitrica & S. Gafoer (2018). Authentic Italianicity, travel memorability, standardized experience: Symbolic constructions of the Italian restaurant in a Dutch cosmopolitan city. Communicazionepuntodoc, 19, 51-59.
- M. Bakardjieva, M. Felt & D.D. Dumitrica (2018). The mediatization of leadership: grassroots digital facilitators as organic intellectuals, sociometric stars and caretakers. Information, Communication and Society (online), 21 (6), 899-914. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1434556
- D.D. Dumitrica (2017). Fixing higher education through technology: Canadian media coverage of massive open online courses. Learning Media and Technology, 42 (4), 454-467. doi: 10.1080/17439884.2017.1278021
- D.D. Dumitrica & M. Bakardjieva (2017). The personalization of engagement: the symbolic construction of social media and grassroots mobilization in Canadian newspapers. Media Culture & Society (online), 1-21. doi: 10.1177/0163443717734406
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016). Imagining engagement: youth, social media and electoral processes. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 22 (1), 35. doi: 10.1177/1354856514553899
- D.D. Dumitrica (2015). Imagining the Canadian Internet: A Case of Discursive Nationalization of Technology. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 15 (3), 448-473. doi: 10.1111/sena.12152
- D.D. Dumitrica & S. Wyatt (2015). Digital Technologies and Social Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory? Canadian Journal of Communication (online), 40 (4), 589-596.
- D.D. Dumitrica & M.C.M. Sommier (2019). Social media veroorzaken meer strijd dan eenheid in protestbewegingen. Sociale vraagstukken.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2019). The ideological work of the daily visual representations of nations. Nations and Nationalism : Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, 25 (3), 910-934. doi: 10.1111/nana.12520
- D.D. Dumitrica & A. Williams (2016). To MOOC or not to MOOC: An exploration of their purpose, fate and future tensions from the perspective of Canadian educators. In W Lehmann (Ed.), Education and Society. Canadian Perspectives (pp. 221-237). Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016). Facebook’s Global Imaginary: The Symbolic Production of the World through Social Media. In B. Goss, J. Caranana & M. Gould (Eds.), Talking Back to Globalization: Texts, Practices and Interventions (pp. 193-214). New York: Peter Lang
- D.D. Dumitrica & S. Wyatt (Eds.). (2015-2015) Canadian Journal of Communication (online), 40(4).
- M. Felt, D.D. Dumitrica & R. Teruelle (2018). Social media obstacles in grassroots civic mobilizations. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Media & Society, Copenhagen, Denmark (SMSociety) (pp. 71-81) doi: 10.1145/3217804.3217899
- D.D. Dumitrica & E. Achterberg (2017). Digital Activism and the Civic Subject Position: A Study of the Ons Geld (Our Money) Citizen Initiative in the Netherlands. In P. Parychek & N. Edelmann (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government CeDEM17 (pp. 229-242). Los Alamitos, Washington: IEEE
- D.D. Dumitrica & M.C.M. Sommier (2019, december 17). The Yellow Vests and “the people”. . Retrieved Jan 17, 2020, from http://crisesobservatory.es/the-yellow-vests-and-the-people-d-dumitrica-m-sommier/
- D.D. Dumitrica & M. Felt (2020, juni 5). Grassroots activists must consider the personal costs of digital campaigns. . Retrieved Dec 23, 2020, from https://theconversation.com/grassroots-activists-must-consider-the-personal-costs-of-digital-campaigns-139272
- D.D. Dumitrica, A.G. Fokkema, A.M.M. Hermans, A. Paz Alencar, T. De La Hera, R. Mittal & M.C.M. Sommier (2020, april 4). Seven changes to brace for after the Corona virus crisis. . Retrieved Dec 23, 2020, from https://theconversation.com/leading-an-online-social-movement-requires-offline-work-132618
- D.D. Dumitrica, M. Bakardjieva & M. Felt (2020, april 2). Leading an online social movement requires offline work. . Retrieved Dec 23, 2020, from https://theconversation.com/leading-an-online-social-movement-requires-offline-work-132618
- D.D. Dumitrica & M.C.M. Sommier (2019, juli 18). Social media veroorzaken meer strijd dan eenheid in protestbewegingen. . Retrieved Jan 17, 2020, from https://www.socialevraagstukken.nl/social-media-veroorzaken-meer-strijd-dan-eenheid-in-protestbewegingen/
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016, juni 13). The Truth about Algorithms. . Retrieved Jan 17, 2017, from https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitalliberties/truth-about-algorithms
- D.D. Dumitrica & G. Gaden-Jones (2020, september 15). Partners in Scholarship. . Retrieved Jan 11, 2021, from https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/09/15/rewards-research-collaboration-takes-slowed-down-approach-rooted-ongoing-dialogue
- M.C.M. Sommier & D.D. Dumitrica (2020, februari 7). "I have the anger of the people in me!" The Yellow Vests and the symbolic struggle over 'the people'. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, ETMAAL conference.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2019, juli 9). Visible and invisible communication: the integration of social media in Dutch NGOs’ communication ecosystem. Madrid, Spain, IAMCR Annual Conference.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2019, juli 11). Humor in Collective Action: The 2017 Romanian Anti-Corruption Protests. Madrid, Spain, IAMCR Annual Conference.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2019, augustus 23). Protesting and Having Fun: Humor in the 2017 Romanian Anti-Corruption Grassroots Mobilization. Manchester, UK, European Sociological Association (ESA) Annual Conference.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2019, april 11). Voice and Listening in Social Media Facilitated Activist Collectives. Calgary, Canada, SOCIAL MEDIA AND CIVIC CULTURE IN CANADA ACADEMIC COLLOQUIUM.
- D.D. Dumitrica & G. Gaden-Jones (2018, april 27). Developing the control imaginary: Time magazine’s symbolic construction of digital technologies. Berlin, Germany, We are on a mission. Exploring the role of future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology.
- D.D. Dumitrica & G. Gaden-Jones (2018, oktober 31). Developing the control imaginary: The symbolic construction of ICTs in Time magazine. Lugano, Switzerland, 7th European Communication Conference (ECREA).
- D.D. Dumitrica (2018, juli 9). Transnational Flows in National Social Movements: the 2017 Anti-Corruption Civic Mobilization in Romania. Rotterdam, NL, ESHCC Lunch Seminar.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016, november 10). Facebook’s Global Imaginary: The Symbolic Production of the World Through Social Media. Prague, ECREA 6th European Communication Conference.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016, maart 10). The ‘extra muscle’ of activism: Representations of Social Media and Political Engagement in the Canadian Press. Erasmus University, the Netherlands, ERMeCC Lunch Lecture.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016, juni 13). Facebook's Global Imaginary. The Symbolic Production of the World through Social Media. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016, mei 13). Individualising Engagement: Representations of Social Media and Political Engagement in theCanadian Press. Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University, Screening Protest Symposium.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016, mei 3). Individualizing Engagement: Representations of Social Media and Political Engagement in the Canadian Press. Sodertorn University, Sweden, Media and Communication - Higher Seminar.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016, april 21). Individualizing Engagement: Representations of Social Media and Political Engagement in the Canadian Press. Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University, Guest Lecture.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016, mei 30). The Commodification of Banal Nationalism: Daily Visual Representations of Nationhood. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Canadian Sociology Association Annual Conference.
- D.D. Dumitrica & A. Williams (2016, mei 28). Fixing Canadian Higher Education: An Analysis of the Print Coverage of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Calgary, University of Calgary, Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference.
- D.D. Dumitrica & M. Bakardjieva (2016, mei 28). The anatomy of a grassroots civic mobilization: connective logic or collective action? University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2016, april 14). Imagining the Canadian Internet: A Case of Discursive Nationalization of Technology. Columbia University, New York, USA, 21st Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities.
- A. Williams & D.D. Dumitrica (2016, mei 30). MOOCs in Canada: A case study investigation of the promises and challenges of “public education” in the past, present, and future. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference.
- M. Bakardjieva & D.D. Dumitrica (2016, juli 11). Activation Trajectories: Tracing the Role of Social Media in Civic Mobilizations in Bulgaria and Canada. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology.
- D.D. Dumitrica (2018, maart 17). The Dark Side of Social Media: Dealing with Obstacles in Digital Activism. Calgary, AB, Social Media and Civic Culture in Canada.
- D.D. Dumitrica, M. Bakardjieva & M. Felt (2018, juni 20). The Mediatization of Leadership: Grassroots Digital Facilitators as Organic Intellectuals. Eugene, OR, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference.
- D.D. Dumitrica & M. Bakardjieva (2020). Grassroots Mobilizations, Social Media and Civic Culture in Canada. Thematic Issue, The Canadian Review of Sociology, 57(4): . doi: 10.1111/cars.12318
- D.D. Dumitrica & K. Uhsemann (2017). Panelist: ‘The blessing and the curse’: Grassroots mobilization via social media during the refugee crisis in Berlin. The 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: San Diego, CA (2017, mei 25 - 2017, mei 29).
- D.D. Dumitrica (2017). Panelist: Is Facebook turning us into cultural hybrids? Discourses on the role of Facebook in the construction of cultural identity. ECREA DMM Conference Bilbao: Migration and communication flows: rethinking borders, conflict and identity through the digital: Bilbao, Spain (2017, november 2 - 2017, november 3).
- D.D. Dumitrica (2017). Panelist: The Commodification of Banal Nationalism: Daily Visual Representations of Nations in a World of Mobilities. Locating Imagination: Popular Culture, Tourism, and Belonging: Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2017, april 5 - 2017, april 7).
- D.D. Dumitrica & E. Achterberg (2017). Panelist: Digital Activism and the Civic Subject Position. CeDEM'17 International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2017: Krems, Austria (2017, mei 17 - 2017, mei 19).
- D.D. Dumitrica (2017). Panelist: The Commodification of Banal Nationalism. Daily Visual Representations of Nations in a World of Mobilities. The 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: San Diego, CA (2017, mei 25 - 2017, mei 29).
- D.D. Dumitrica (2017). Ons Geld Citizen Initiative, The Netherlands. (Extern rapport). : IT for Change [go to publisher's site]
- D.D. Dumitrica (2017). Country Overview, Netherlands. (Extern rapport). : IT for Change [go to publisher's site]
Qual. Methods in Media and Comm.
- Title
- Qual. Methods in Media and Comm.
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- BA-2, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master
Research Traineeship
- Title
- Research Traineeship
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- MA-1
Master's Thesis Project
- Title
- Master's Thesis Project
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- MA-2
New Media and Political Communication
- Title
- New Media and Political Communication
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- BA-2
Media and Politics
- Title
- Media and Politics
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- BA-2, BA-3
Methods of Media Research MB
- Title
- Methods of Media Research MB
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- MA
Master Class
- Title
- Master Class
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
Master's Thesis Media Studies
- Title
- Master's Thesis Media Studies
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
New Media, Politics and Campaigns
- Title
- New Media, Politics and Campaigns
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- MA
Methods of Media Research I
- Title
- Methods of Media Research I
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- MA
Methods of Media Research I
- Title
- Methods of Media Research I
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- MA
Methods of Media Research I
- Title
- Methods of Media Research I
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- MA
Associate Professor
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- Department
- Department of Media and Communication
- Country
- The Netherlands