Dan Mercea

Dan Mercea is Professor of Digital and Social Change in the Department of Sociology at City, University of London and associate editor of Information, Communication & Society.

Dan is a political sociologist with a lasting interest in civic participation and the implications flowing from the adoption and repurposing of Internet technologies in various domains of social and political activity.

He is currently Co-PI of the ProDem research project (https://prodem.uni-frankfurt.de/), which investigates how interactions between citizens, social movements and a specific breed of political parties, the so-called ‘movement parties’, influence democratic quality in Europe.