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Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404, Gonzalez Santos, F. & Hoffmann, M. (2024). Actual, potential, and non-participants: Advancing the differential analysis of protest participation. Political Studies, doi: 10.1177/00323217241297905

Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Santos, F. G. (2024). Policy over Protest: Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Support for Movement Parties. Perspectives on Politics, pp. 1-23. doi: 10.1017/s1537592724001439

Gonzalez Santos, F., Hoffmann, M. & Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 (2024). Protesting at the intersection of individual characteristics and obstacles to participation: An analysis of the in-person, online and pivoting styles. Journal of European Public Policy, pp. 1-28. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2024.2418962

Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404, Saker, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-7414-2840 & Gonzalez Santos, F. (2024). Protesting the lockdown: geo-indexing a movement publicly opposing Covid-19 policies on Facebook. Social Movement Studies, 23(6), pp. 695-718. doi: 10.1080/14742837.2024.2336957

Santos, F. G. ORCID: 0000-0001-7006-2088 & Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 (2024). Young democrats, critical citizens and protest voters: studying the profiles of movement party supporters. Acta Politica, doi: 10.1057/s41269-023-00321-7

Saker, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-7414-2840, Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Myers, C. A. ORCID: 0000-0001-8216-2844 (2023). “Wayfearing” and the city: Exploring how experiential fear of crime frames the mobilities of women students at a city-based university using a bespoke chatbot app. Mobile Media and Communication, 12(1), pp. 131-151. doi: 10.1177/20501579231203556

Hoffmann, M., Santos G., F. ORCID: 0000-0001-7006-2088, Neumayer, C. & Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404view all authors (2022). Lifting the veil on the use of big data news repositories: A documentation and critical discussion of a protest event analysis. Communication Methods and Measures, 16(4), pp. 283-302. doi: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2128099

Saker, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-7414-2840 & Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 (2022). Understanding familial locative play: exploring parent online social learning to play Pokémon Go. Convergence, 28(2), pp. 506-521. doi: 10.1177/13548565211032375

Levy, H. & Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 (2021). Exploring narrative linearity between Twitter and the news: Echoes of the Arab Spring in Brazil. Discourse and Society: an international journal for the study of discourse and communication in their social, political and cultural contexts, 32(6), pp. 689-707. doi: 10.1177/09579265211023223

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078, Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Goveia, F. (2021). Guy Next Door and Implausibly Attractive Young Women: The Visual Frames of Social Media Propaganda. New Media and Society, 25(8), pp. 2014-2033. doi: 10.1177/14614448211026580

Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Mosca, L. (2021). Understanding Movement Parties Through Their Communication. Information, Communication and Society, 24(10), pp. 1327-1343. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2021.1942514

Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 (2020). Tying Transnational Activism to National Protest: Facebook Event Pages in the 2017 Romanian #rezist Demonstrations. New Media and Society, 24(8), pp. 1771-1790. doi: 10.1177/1461444820975725

Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404, Burean, T. & Proteasa, V. (2020). Student Participation and Public Facebook Communication: Exploring the Demand and Supply of Political Information in the Romanian #rezist Demonstrations. International Journal of Communication, 14, pp. 4136-4159.

Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Levy, H. (2019). Cuing Collective Outcomes on Twitter: A Qualitative Reading of Movement Social Learning. International Journal of Communication, 13, pp. 5629-5651.

Bastos, M. T. & Mercea, D. (2019). The Brexit Botnet and User-Generated Hyperpartisan News. Social Science Computer Review, 37(1), pp. 38-54. doi: 10.1177/0894439317734157

Walker, S., Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2019). The Disinformation Landscape and the Lockdown of Social Platforms. Information, Communication and Society, 22(11), pp. 1531-1543. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2019.1648536

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078, Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Baronchelli, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-0255-0829 (2018). The Geographic Embedding of Online Echo Chambers: Evidence from the Brexit Campaign. PLoS ONE, 13(11), article number e0206841. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206841

Mercea, D., Karatas, D. & Bastos, M. T. (2018). Persistent Activist Communication in Occupy Gezi. Sociology, 52(5), pp. 915-933. doi: 10.1177/0038038517695061

Mercea, D. (2018). Transnational Activism in Support of National Protest: Questions of Identity and Organization. Global Networks, 18(4), pp. 543-563. doi: 10.1111/glob.12179

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 & Mercea, D. (2018). The Public Accountability of Social Platforms: Lessons from a Study on Bots and Trolls in the Brexit Campaign. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2128), article number 20180003. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0003

Bastos, M. T. & Mercea, D. (2018). Parametrizing Brexit: Mapping Twitter Political Space to Parliamentary Constituencies. Information, Communication and Society, 21(7), pp. 921-939. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2018.1433224

Mercea, D. & Yilmaz, K.E. (2018). Movement Social Learning on Twitter: The Case of the People’s Assembly. The Sociological Review, 66(1), pp. 20-40. doi: 10.1177/0038026117710536

Bastos, M. T. & Mercea, D. (2016). Serial Activists: Political Twitter Beyond Influentials and the Twittertariat. New Media and Society, 18(10), pp. 2359-2378. doi: 10.1177/1461444815584764

Mercea, D. & Funk, A. (2016). The social media overture of the pan-European Stop-ACTA protest: An empirical examination of participatory coordination in connective action. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 22(3), pp. 287-312. doi: 10.1177/1354856514563663

Mercea, D. & Bastos, M. T. (2016). Being a Serial Transnational Activist. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 21(2), pp. 140-155. doi: 10.1111/jcc4.12150

Mercea, D. & Iannelli,, L. (2016). Media, Participation, and Social Change. Social Media + Society, 2(3), pp. 1-3. doi: 10.1177/2056305116662398

Mercea, D. (2015). After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia. Perspectives on Politics, 13(3), pp. 887-889. doi: 10.1017/S1537592715001917

Mercea, D. (2015). Making sense of democratic institutions intertextually: Communication on social media as a civic literacy event preceding collective action. The Communication Review, 18(3), pp. 189-211. doi: 10.1080/10714421.2015.1058102

Bastos, M. T., Mercea, D. & Charpentier, A. (2015). Tents, tweets, and events: The interplay between ongoing protests and social media. Journal of Communication, 65(2), pp. 320-350. doi: 10.1111/jcom.12145

Mercea, D., Iannelli, L. & Loader, B. D. (2015). Protest communication ecologies. Information, Communication and Society, 19(3), pp. 279-289. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2015.1109701

Mercea, D. (2015). Review Essay: Cultures of Democracy in Serbia and Bulgaria by James Dawson (Ashgate, 2007) and After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia by Jessica Greenberg (Stanford University Press, 2014). Perspectives on Politics, 13(3), pp. 887-889. doi: 10.1017/s1537592715001917

Mercea, D. (2014). Towards a conceptualization of casual protest participation: Parsing a case from the Save Roşia Montană campaign. East European Politics and Societies, 28(2), pp. 386-410. doi: 10.1177/0888325413519672

Mercea, D. (2013). Probing the Implications of Facebook use for the organizational form of social movement organizations. Information, Communication and Society, 16(8), pp. 1306-1327. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2013.770050

Mercea, D. (2012). Digital prefigurative participation: the entwinement of online communication and offline participation in protest events. New Media & Society, 14(1), pp. 153-169. doi: 10.1177/1461444811429103

Loader, B.D. & Mercea, D. (2011). Networking democracy? Social media innovations in participatory politics”. Information, Communication and Society, 14(6), pp. 757-769. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2011.592648

Mercea, D. & Stoica, A. C. (2007). In partnerships we trust: NGO-donor relations. A case study of Romanian civil society support and development NGOs. Studia Universitas Babeş-Bolyai - Politica, 8(1), pp. 73-105.

Mercea, D. (2006). Exploding iconography: The Mindbomb Project. Eastbound, 1(1), pp. 245-283.

Book Section

Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Levy, H. (2019). The Activist Chroniclers of Occupy Gezi: Counterposing Visibility to Injustice. In: McGarry, A., Erhart, I., Eslen-Ziya, H. , Jenzen, O. & Korkut, U.view all authors (Eds.), The Aesthetics of Global Protest Visual Culture and Communication. . Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press.

Mercea, D. (2017). Building contention word-by-word: Social media usage in the European Stop ACTA movement. In: Barisione, M. & Michailidou, A. (Eds.), Social Media and European Politics: Rethinking Power and Legitimacy in the Digital Era. (pp. 105-122). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Mercea, D., Lekakis, E. & Nixon, P. (2013). "Taking stock: a meta-analysis of the virtual public sphere in communication journals". In: Nixon, P., Rawal, R. & Mercea, D. (Eds.), Politics and the Internet in Comparative Context: Views from the Cloud. Routledge Research in Political Communication. (pp. 10-26). Oxford: Routledge.

Mercea, D., Nixon, P. & Funk, A. (2013). Unaffiliated Socialization and Social Media Recruitment: Reflections from Occupy the Netherlands. In: Nixon, P., Rawal, R. & Mercea, D. (Eds.), Politics and the Internet in Comparative Context: Views from the Cloud. (pp. 232-247). London, UK: Routledge.

Other

Bastos, M. T., Mercea, D. & Baronchelli, A. The Spatial Dimension of Online Echo Chambers.

Report

Saker, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-7414-2840, Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Myers, C. A. ORCID: 0000-0001-8216-2844 (2023). Locating Fear: A pilot study examining the use of a chatbot app to surface embodied experiences of fear in situ.. London, UK: School of Policy & Global Affairs, City University of London.