Research

I study the content and impact of visuals in politics and the media landscape, both focusing on the visual channel and on the multimodal communication emerging from the interaction with written and spoken text. I am also interested in the development of research tools for the study of large volumes of visual communication, as one of the developers of ammico (AI-based Media and Misinformation Content Analysis Tool). My other substantive research areas are experimental design and survey opinion measurement.

1. Nonverbal communication and democratic decision-making

Publications

Dumitrescu, Delia. (2026).  "How does war look like on the European mainstream media Facebook? A large-N comparison of the media Facebook posts covering Ukraine and Gaza in 24 European countries in spring 2024." New Media & Society, 14614448251413689.

Dumitrescu, Delia. (2025). "Nonverbal political communication." In  Alessandro Nai, Max Grömping and Dominique Wirz, eds., Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (Volume 3) (pp. 103–106). Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Dumitrescu, Delia, & Mina Trpkovic (2022). "The use of non-verbal displays in framing COVID-19 disinformation in Europe: an exploratory account." Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 846250.

Dumitrescu, Delia, & Erik P. Bucy (2021). "Visual portrayals of people in need: The impact of refugee depictions, compassion, and support for humanitarian aid." International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 33(4), 818-839.  umitrescu, Delia (2016). “Nonverbal communication in politics: A review of research developments, 2005-2015.” American Behavioral Scientist, 60(14), 1656-1675.

Dumitrescu, Delia (2016). “Nonverbal communication in politics: A review of research developments, 2005-2015.” American Behavioral Scientist, 60(14), 1656-1675.

Dumitrescu, Delia and Sebastian Popa. (2016). "Showing their true colors? How EU flag display affects perceptions of party elites’ European attachment." American Behavioral Scientist, 60(14), 1698-1718.

Dumitrescu, Delia. (2017) "Up, close and personal: The new Front National visual strategy under Marine Le Pen" French Politics. doi: 10.1057/s41253-016-0012-7. [Alternative link]

Dumitrescu, Delia. (2017) “French electoral poster campaigns in the 21st century.” In Political Campaigning in the Public Space. Election Posters around the Globe, Christina Holtz-Bacha and Bengt Johansson eds., Springer-Verlag. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-32498-2

Popa, Sebastian and Delia Dumitrescu. (2015) “National but European? Visual manifestations of Europe in national parties’ Euromanifestos since 1979.” Party Politics.

Dumitrescu, Delia, Elisabeth Gidengil and Dietlind Stolle. (2015) “Candidate Confidence and Electoral Appeal: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Nonverbal Confidence on Voter Evaluation.” Political Science Research and Methods,

3(1): 43-52.

Dumitrescu, Delia. (2012). “The Importance of Being Present: Election Posters as Signals of Electoral Strength. Evidence from France and Belgium.” Party Politics, 18(6): 941-960

Dumitrescu, Delia. (2010). “Know Me, Love Me, Fear Me: The Anatomy of Candidate Poster Designs in the 2007 French Legislative Elections.” Political Communication 27:20-43.

Dumitrescu, Delia and Anthony Mughan. (2010). “Mass Media and Politics.” In The Handbook of Politics, State and Civil Society in Global Perspective, Kevin T. Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins, eds., New York: Springer, pp. 477-491.

Dissertation

Spatial visual communications in election campaigns: Political posters strategies in two democracies.

Recipient of the “Henry R. Spencer Award” for the best dissertation in 2009-2010 from the Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University. Abstract

2. AMMICO: AI-based Media and Misinformation Content Analysis Tool 

Ammico Github

Publications

Dumitrescu, Delia, Inga S. Ulusoy, Petr Andriushchenko, Gwydoin Daskalakis, Dominic Kempf, & Xianghe Ma. (2025). "AMMICO, an AI-based Media and Misinformation Content Analysis Tool." Computational Communication Research, 7(1), 1.

Dumitrescu, Delia. (2023). Disinfo22-small dataset (revision 8810edc). DOI: 10.57967/hf/0603

3. Emotions and democratic decision-making

Publications

Dumitrescu, Delia and André Blais. (2014)."Anxiety and Vote Decision Making in Winner-Take-All Elections” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 47(3): 451-474.

Dumitrescu, Delia and André Blais. (2011). “Increased Realism at Lower Cost: The Case for the Hybrid Experiment.” PS: Political Science & Politics, 44: 521-523.

4. Survey response

Publications

Martinsson, Johan, Delia Dumitrescu and Karolina Riedel. (2016) “Recruiting an Online Panel From Another Online Survey: Consequences of Framing and Placement of the Recruitment Question” International Journal of Public Opinion Research, doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edw005

Dumitrescu, Delia and Johan Martinsson. (2016) “Surveys as a social experience: The lingering effects of survey design choices on respondents' survey experience and subsequent optimizing behavior.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 28 (4): 534-561. doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edv034.