Biography
Dr. Delia Dumitrica has joined Erasmus University's Department of Media and Communication in 2015 with a research and teaching expertise in Political Communication. Her research focuses on protest communication, digital activism and the discursive construction of the political functions of new media. In addition to this, she preserves a side research interest in everyday and banal forms of nationalism. She is a co-investigator in the project "Social Media and Civic Culture: Investigating Emerging Practices of Democratic Participation in Canada" (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada) and an NWO ASPASIA grantee. She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Calgary, Canada. Her dissertation examined policy, journalistic, and everyday understandings of the Internet in Canada.
In addition to her research agenda, Dr. Dumitrica is also involved in educational innovation. As a Fellow of the EUR's Center for Learning and Innovation, she has explored the use of digital learning objects in teaching qualitative research methods. She has recently been awarded a Comenius Senior Fellowship for her project entitled "Adaptive digital enviornments for qualitative research learning".
Dr. Dumitrica is also a member and currently the co-chair of the Young Erasmus Academy.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- dumitrica@eshcc.eur.nl
- Room
- M8-37
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Giuliana Sorce & Delia Dumitrica (2022) - From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic - Convergence, 1-16 - doi: 10.1177/13548565221148112 - [link]
- Georgia Gaden Jones & Delia Dumitrica (2022) - Can we really have nice things? Preparing for the Metavers - Baltic Screen Media Review, 10 (2), 214-223 - [link]
- Delia Dumitrica & Hester Hockin-Boyers (2022) - Slideshow activism on Instagram: constructing the political activist subject - Information Communication and Society, 1-19 - doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2155487 - [link]
- Victoria Balan & Delia Dumitrica (2022) - Technologies of last resort: The discursive construction of digital activism in Wired and Time magazine, 2010–2021 - New Media and Society, 1-20 - doi: 10.1177/14614448221135886 - [link]
- Delia Dumitrica & Paulina Jarmula (2022) - Teaching Qualitative Research Methods in Media and Communication: The Benefits and Limitations of Digital Learning Objects - Qualitative Report, 27 (9), 1934-1951 - doi: 10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5256 - [link]
- Giuliana Sorce & Delia Dumitrica (2022) - Transnational dimensions in digital activism and protest - Review of Communication, 22 (3), 157-174 - doi: 10.1080/15358593.2022.2107877 - [link]
- Delia Dumitrica (2022) - Superheroes, emojis or brands: How can transnational symbols help local protest? - [link]
- Delia Dumitrica (2021) - When protest humor is not all fun: The ambiguity of humor in the 2017 Romanian anti-corruption grassroots mobilization - European Journal of Communication, 37 (2), 181-197 - doi: 10.1177/02673231211046783 - [link]
- Giuliana Sorce & Delia Dumitrica (2021) - Lessen voor klimaatactivisme in een tijd van crisis - [link]
- Delia Dumitrica (2021) - Integrating Social Media in NGO Strategic Communication: Lessons From Dutch NGOs' Communication Practices - doi: 10.4324/9781003188636
- Delia Dumitrica (24 March 2023) - Leven in het internet Metaverse: fantastische nieuwe wereld of verre techdroom?
- Delia Dumitrica (9 March 2023) - Nation in the city
- Delia Dumitrica (15 December 2022) - Instagram posts on protests are important for the historical record and to hold people to account
- Delia Dumitrica (2023) - Instagram activism: How is the medium re-shaping social practice?
- Delia Dumitrica (2023) - The techno-pragmatic teacher: Fitting technology into Learning in the Neoliberal University
- Delia Dumitrica (2022) - Political humor in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: Humor and the articulation of political trust during the first wave of the pandemic
- Delia Dumitrica & Victoria Balan (2022) - What might we learn from actor-network theory for studying digital activism?
- Delia Dumitrica (2022) - Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council (External organisation)
- Delia Dumitrica & Giuliana Sorce (2022) - Review of Communication (Journal)
- Delia Dumitrica & Naomi Oosterman (2022) - Adaptive digital environments for qualitative research learning
- Delia Dumitrica & Hester Hockin-Boyers (2022) - Slideshow Activism on Instagram: Constructing the Political Activist Subject
- Victoria Balan & Delia Dumitrica (2022) - Technologies of Last Resort: The Discursive Construction of Digital Activism in Wired and Time Magazine, 2010–2021
- Delia Dumitrica & Naomi Oosterman (2022) - Developing successful digital learning resources for qualitative methodology
Master Thesis
- Level
- MA-2
- Year Level
- MA-2
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CS5050
New Media, Politics and Campaigns
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM4493
Master Class
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM4500
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM5000
Globalization, Digitalization and Cult.
- Level
- MA-1
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CS5009
New Media and Political Communication
- Level
- BA-2
- Year Level
- BA-2
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM2552
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