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Dr. Donya Alinejad

Assistant Professor 
Humanities
Department of Media and Culture Studies
Media and Performance Studies
Media and Performance Studies
 
Humanities
Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Media and Performance Studies
Media and Performance Studies
Muntstraat 2-2a
Muntstraat 2-2A
3512 EV Utrecht

Dr. Donya Alinejad

Assistant Professor
Media and Performance Studies
Media and Performance Studies
d.alinejad@uu.nl
Profile Publications Activities In the media Research Teaching Ancillary activities Contact
Profile Publications Activities In the media Research Teaching Ancillary activities Contact
Research areas

Publications

2024

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D., & Honari, A. (2024). Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter. Public Understanding of Science, 33(4), 396-413. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231216054
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/451656/alinejad-honari-2024-online-politicizations-of-science-contestation-versus-denialism-at-the-convergence-between-covid.pdf?sequence=1

2023

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D. (2023). Race and Affect in Digital Media Cultures. In Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1269
Alinejad, D., Habed, A. J., & Harambam, J. (2023). Trust, Media, and Science in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Digital Social Research, 5(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v5i3.195
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/435057/195-Article_Text-1566-2-10-20230904.pdf?sequence=1
Alinejad, D., & van Dijck, J. (2023). Climate Communication: How researchers navigate between scientific truth and media publics. Communication and the Public, 8(1), 29-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/20570473221138612
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/425655/20570473221138612.pdf?sequence=2

2022

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D., & Candidatu, L. (2022). Narratives of Digital Intimacy: Romanian Migration and Mediated Transnational Life. In The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology (pp. 314-328). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003175605-31
Honari, A., & Alinejad, D. (2022). Online Performance of Civic Participation: What Bot-like Activity in the Persian Language Twittersphere Reveals About Political Manipulation Mechanisms. Television and New Media, 23(8), 917-938. https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764211055712
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/431628/honari-alinejad-2021-online-performance-of-civic-participation-what-bot-like-activity-in-the-persian-language.pdf?sequence=1
van Dijck, J., & Alinejad, D. (2022). Translating Knowledge, Establishing Trust: The role of social media in communicating the Covid-19 pandemic in The Netherlands. In T. K. Lee, & D. Wang (Eds.), Translation and social media communication in the Age of the Pandemic (pp. 26-43). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003183907-3
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420327/10.4324_9781003183907_3_chapterpdf.pdf?sequence=1

2021

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D. (2021). Techno-emotional mediations of transnational intimacy: social media and care relations in long-distance Romanian families. Media, culture & society, 43(3), 444-459. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443720972313
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/227687317/alinejad-2020-techno-emotional-mediations-of-transnational-intimacy-social-media-and-care-relations-in-long-distance.pdf
Alinejad, D. (2021). Rightful politics of killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan by Sima Shakhsari. Anthropological Quarterly, 9(4).
Alinejad, D., & Ponzanesi, S. (2021). The Multi-sitedness of Somali Diaspora. Journal of Global Diaspora and Media, 2(1), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.1386/gdm_00012_1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/412984/s3.pdf?sequence=1

2020

Scholarly publications

Costa, E., & Alinejad, D. (2020). Experiencing Homeland: Social Media and Transnational Communication among Kurdish Migrants in Northern Italy. Global Perspectives, 1(1), 1-12. Article 12783. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.12783
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/227680733/12783.pdf
van Dijck, J. F. T. M., & Alinejad, D. (2020). Social Media and trust in scientific expertise: Debating the Covid-19 Pandemic in The Netherlands. Social Media and Society, 6(4), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120981057
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/428341/2056305120981057.pdf?sequence=1
Alinejad, D., & Ponzanesi, S. (2020). Migrancy and Digital Mediations of Emotion. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(5), 621– 638. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877920933649
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/408666/IJCS_Introduction_Migrancy_and_Digital_Mediations_of_Emotions.pdf?sequence=1
Alinejad, D. (Guest ed.), & Ponzanesi, S. (Guest ed.) (2020). Special Issue guest edited: Migration, Digital Media and Emotions. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(5), 620-820. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/icsa/23/5

2019

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D. (2019). Careful Co-presence: The Transnational Mediation of Emotional Intimacy. Social Media + Society, 5(2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119854222
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/227687583/alinejad-2019-careful-co-presence-the-transnational-mediation-of-emotional-intimacy.pdf
Olivieri, D., & Alinejad, D. (2019). Affect, emotions and feelings. In K. Smets (Ed.), TheSAGE handbook of media and migration (pp. 64-73). SAGE.
Alinejad, D., Candidatu, L. I., Mevsimler, M., Minchilli, C., Ponzanesi, S., & van der Vlist, F. N. (2019). Diaspora and mapping methodologies: tracing transnational digital connections with ‘mattering maps’. Global Networks, 19(1), 21-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12197
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/377858/Diaspora.pdf?sequence=1

2018

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D. (2018). Book Review: Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice. New Media and Society, 20(1), 428-431. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817733962c
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/367561/1461444817733962c.pdf?sequence=1

2017

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D. (2017). The internet and formations of Iranian American-ness: Next generation diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47626-1
Alinejad, D. (2017). The Quest for Representation. Spheres, 4. http://spheres-journal.org/the-quest-for-representation/
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/361034/7Alinejad_TheQuestForRepresentation.pdf?sequence=1
Alinejad, D. (2017). Wat is digitale etnografie? KWALON, Kwalitatief Onderzoek in Nederland, 22(3), 37-39.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/360520/etnografie.pdf?sequence=1

2016

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D. (2016). Europe Says OXI: "Online Camaraderie" and the European Crisis. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network , 9(4). https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2016.94.451
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/346830/Europe.pdf?sequence=1

Professional publications

Alinejad, D., & Ghorashi, H. (2016). From Bridging to Building: Discourses of Organizing Iranian Americans across Generations. In Identity and Exile: The Iranian Diaspora Between Solidarity and Difference (Vol. Volume 40 , pp. 62-75). (Publication Series on Democracy). Heinrich Böll Stiftung .

2015

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D., & Mutsvairo, B. (2015). Dispatches from the Dispersed: Comparatively Analysing Internet-Based Diasporic Journalism within Zimbabwean and Iranian Contexts. In Journalism, Audiences and Diaspora (pp. 171-186). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137457233_11

2013

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D. (2013). Locating Home in a "Digital Age": An Ethnographic Case Study of Second-Generation Iranian Americans in LA and their Use of Internet Media. Iranian Studies, 46(1), 95-113. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24482803

2011

Scholarly publications

Alinejad, D. (2011). Mapping homelands through virtual spaces: transnational embodiment and Iranian diaspora bloggers. Global Networks, 11(1), 43-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2010.00306.x
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