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City St George's, University of London: London, GB

Professor of Digital and Social Change (Sociology and Criminology )
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Dan Mercea

Babeș-Bolyai University: Cluj-Napoca, RO

Researcher (College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences)
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Dan Mercea

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University of York: York, GB

2007-03-01 to 2011 | PhD in Communication Studies (Sociology)
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Works (49)

Protest as a relational field: An analysis of brokerage positions within and across contentious episodes and the individuals occupying them

International Journal of Sociology
2025-02-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2025.2458419
Contributors: Matthias Hoffmann; Felipe G. Santos; Dan Mercea
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Democratic quality and the triple interaction of social movements, movement parties and citizens

2025-01-22 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003532507-2
Contributors: Dan Mercea; Dana S. Trif; Claudius Wagemann
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Protest and democracy

2025-01-22 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003532507-1
Contributors: Claudius Wagemann; Toma Burean; Dan Mercea; Lorenzo Mosca; Christina Neumayer
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Protest and Democracy

2025-01-22 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9781003532507
Contributors: Claudius Wagemann; Toma Burean; Dan Mercea; Lorenzo Mosca; Christina Neumayer
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Young democrats, critical citizens and protest voters

2025-01-22 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003532507-4
Contributors: Felipe G. Santos; Dan Mercea
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Replication Data for "Policy over Protest: Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Support for Movement Parties"

Harvard Dataverse
2024 | Dataset
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/cbkzl1
Contributors: Dan Mercea
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Protesting the lockdown: geo-indexing a movement publicly opposing Covid-19 policies on Facebook

Social Movement Studies
2024-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2024.2336957
Contributors: Dan Mercea; Michael Saker; Felipe G. Santos
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Actual, Potential, and Non-Participants: Advancing the Differential Analysis of Protest Participation

Political Studies
2024-11-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/00323217241297905
Contributors: Dan Mercea; Felipe G. Santos; Matthias Hoffmann
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Policy over Protest: Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Support for Movement Parties

Perspectives on Politics
2024-11-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S1537592724001439
Contributors: Dan Mercea; Felipe G. Santos
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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
2024-10-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2024.2418962
Contributors: Felipe G. Santos; Matthias Hoffmann; Dan Mercea
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“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 & Communication
2024-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/20501579231203556
Contributors: Michael Saker; Dan Mercea; Carrie-Anne Myers
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Guy next door and implausibly attractive young women: The visual frames of social media propaganda

New Media & Society
2023-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/14614448211026580
Contributors: Marco Bastos; Dan Mercea; Fábio Goveia
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Introduction: Understanding movement parties through their communication

2023-01-18 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003369363-1
Contributors: Dan Mercea; Lorenzo Mosca
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Understanding Movement Parties Through their Communication

2023-01-18 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9781003369363
Contributors: Dan Mercea; Lorenzo Mosca
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A Conjoint Experiment on the Influence of Populist Attitudes on Voting Preferences

OSF Registries
2022 | Other
DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/r5hya
Contributors: Fred Paxton; Felipe G. Santos; Dan Mercea
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A vignette experiment about how citizens react to different concerns with democratic quality

OSF Registries
2022 | Other
DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/c6uk5
Contributors: Felipe G. Santos; Dan Mercea
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Conjoint Experiment on the Voting Preferences of Movement party Supporters

OSF Registries
2022 | Other
DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/kgpmd
Contributors: Felipe G. Santos; Dan Mercea
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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
2022-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2022.2128099
Contributors: Matthias Hoffmann; Felipe G. Santos; Christina Neumayer; Dan Mercea
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Tying transnational activism to national protest: Facebook event pages in the 2017 Romanian #rezist demonstrations

New Media & Society
2022-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1461444820975725
Contributors: Dan Mercea
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Understanding familial locative play: Exploring parent online social learning to play Pokémon Go

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/13548565211032375
Contributors: Michael Saker; Dan Mercea
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Understanding movement parties through their communication

Information, Communication & Society
2021-07-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1942514
Contributors: Dan Mercea; Lorenzo Mosca
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Student Participation and Public Facebook Communication

International Journal of Communication
2020-07-29 | Journal article
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Cuing Collective Outcomes on Twitter: A Qualitative Reading of Movement Social Learning

International Journal of Communication
2019-10-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1932–8036/20190005
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The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms

Information, Communication & Society
2019-09-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1648536
Contributors: Shawn Walker; Dan Mercea; Marco Bastos
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The public accountability of social platforms: lessons from a study on bots and trolls in the Brexit campaign

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
2018-09-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0003
Contributors: Marco Bastos; Dan Mercea
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Building Contention Word-by-Word: Social Media Usage in the European Stop ACTA Movement

Social Media and European Politics
2017 | Other
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59890-5_5
Contributors: Dan Mercea
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Movement social learning on Twitter: The case of the People’s Assembly

The Sociological Review
2017-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0038026117710536
Contributors: Dan Mercea; Kutlu Emre Yilmaz
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Making sense of democratic institutions intertextually: Communication on social media as a civic literacy event preceding collective action

2017-05-29 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/2hxqc
Contributors: Dan Mercea
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Protest communication ecologies

2017-05-29 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/6j9tr
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Digital prefigurative participation: the entwinement of online communication and offline participation in protest events

2017-05-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/savxj
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Probing the Implications of Facebook use for the organizational form of social movement organizations

2017-05-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/m9e25
Contributors: Dan Mercea
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Towards a Conceptualization of Casual Protest Participation: Parsing a Case from the Save Roşia Montană Campaign

2017-05-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/5kafm
Contributors: Dan Mercea
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Tweets, tents, and events: The interplay between street protests and social media

2017-05-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/nrfbd
Contributors: Marco T. Bastos; Dan Mercea; Arthur Charpentier
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Exploding Iconography: The Mindbomb Project

2017-05-06 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/kqz3m
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Networking democracy? Social media innovations in participatory politics

2017-05-06 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/nqjh4
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Persistent Activist Communication in Occupy Gezi

Sociology
2017-04-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0038038517695061
Contributors: Dan Mercea; Duygu Karatas; Marco T Bastos
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Being a Serial Transnational Activist

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12150
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Contributors: Mercea, D.; Bastos, M.T.
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Civic participation in contentious politics: The digital foreshadowing of protest

Civic Participation in Contentious Politics: The Digital Foreshadowing of Protest
2016 | Book
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50869-0
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Protest communication ecologies

Information Communication and Society
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1109701
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2-s2.0-84953639368
Contributors: Mercea, D.; Iannelli, L.; Loader, B.D.
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Serial activists: Political Twitter beyond influentials and the twittertariat

New Media and Society
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1461444815584764
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2-s2.0-84990248449
Contributors: Bastos, M.T.; Mercea, D.
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Making Sense of Democratic Institutions Intertextually: Communication on Social Media as a Civic Literacy Event Preceding Collective Action

Communication Review
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2015.1058102
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2-s2.0-84940179533
Contributors: Mercea, D.
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Tents, tweets, and events: The interplay between ongoing protests and social media

Journal of Communication
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12145
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2-s2.0-84926524577
Contributors: Bastos, M.T.; Mercea, D.; Charpentier, A.
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The social media overture of the pan-European Stop-ACTA protest

Convergence
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1354856514563663
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Contributors: Mercea, D.; Funk, A.
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Towards a Conceptualization of Casual Protest Participation: Parsing a Case from the Save Roşia Montanǎ Campaign

East European Politics and Societies
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0888325413519672
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2-s2.0-84899558611
Contributors: Mercea, D.
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PROBING THE IMPLICATIONS OF FACEBOOK USE FOR THE ORGANIZATIONAL FORM OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS

Information Communication and Society
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.770050
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2-s2.0-84883479760
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Unaffiliated socialization and social media recruitment: Reflections from occupy the Netherlands

Politics and the Internet in Comparative Context: Views from the Cloud
2013 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9780203798331
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2-s2.0-84899536511
Contributors: Mercea, D.; Nixon, P.G.; Funk, A.
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Digital prefigurative participation: The entwinement of online communication and offline participation in protest events

New Media and Society
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1461444811429103
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2-s2.0-84857672373
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Networking democracy? Social media innovations in participatory politics

Social Media and Democracy: Innovations in Participatory Politics
2012 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9780203126974
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2-s2.0-84878797742
Contributors: Loader, B.D.; Mercea, D.
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Introduction networking democracy? Social media innovations and participatory politics

Information Communication and Society
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.592648
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2-s2.0-79961088421
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