📄DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📄 Our former PhD & current Postdoc @emilbakke.bsky.social is first author on this important study on visual expressions in protest movements! Together with @nicolemilmandoerr.bsky.social and @mathiaswullum.bsky.social in @actasociologica.bsky.social ! Great work Emil et al.!

🎓Congratulations to Dr. Malte Sigsgaard!🎓 ...for successfully defending his PhD thesis. "Staying in CTRL. Mapping the Impacts of AI on Journalism, and Normative Strategies of AI Control" Malte is part of the first DDC cohort, & we are very proud to congratulate him on this important milestone.😊

Paying for posts on Facebook and TikTok, sharing disinformation, manufacturing polls, preparing for question election integrity. The Moldova elections on September 28 are targeted for interference. www.bbc.com/news/article...

For nylig modtog AI-professor @claesdevreese.bsky.social og kvantefysiker Klaus Mølmer #CFforskpris 2025. 🎙️Hør interviews, som de to prismodtagere gav umiddelbart efter prisoverrækkelsen bit.ly/4guteTt #dkforsk #forskpol @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

The real heroes of academia are often people that are less often in the spotlight- such as @ddc-sdu.bsky.social finance magician Bettina - very glad that she could join the retreat and see all the project results that her work makes possible 😀

🌞DDC RESEARCH RETREAT TIME🌞 Our biannual research retreat in Nyborg by the sea is in full swing. This time, we welcome a number of new faces as well as our various core members and cooperation partners, presenting & engaging with our interdisciplinary work. Talking, walking, developing new ideas 💡

Willing to walk the talk? Arjen van Dalen presenting our recent @ddc-sdu.bsky.social study (funded by TrygFonden) focusing on citizens’ willingness to delete or setting up new social media accounts. One third suggests willingness to walk. High or low number? ❓🤨

Public service media can thrive, also in the future. It “only” takes stable funding, independence from politics, collaboration, savvy tech infrastructure investments, ‘must carry and promote’ obligations for platforms and the best, trustworthy journalistic standards. Just that. Conlusions from ⬇️

🏛️DDC IN PARLIAMENT🏛️ @claesdevreese.bsky.social and @dieheiselberg.bsky.social will be in Christiansborg to speak about the future of public service media in Denmark!

Our Postdoctoral Researcher @lyngemoller.bsky.social has been doing fantastic work in tracing various ongoing shifts in newsrooms. In this case, he explores the role of software developers (via interviews) and explores how they matter to contemporary journalism. Go Lynge! 😊👏👏

Digital Journalism in the Age of TECHNOGARCHY! CfP: Deadline coming up: Sept. 15th! ⏳

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

🎓 DDC DISSERTATION UPDATE 🎓 Please welcome ✨Dr.✨ Emil Bakkensen Johansen, who today expertly defended his PhD Thesis on... Complex Dynamics in Digital News Ecosystems: Collaboration and Imitation in the Age of Al

Good luck 🍀 to our @ddc-sdu.bsky.social colleague @emilbakke.bsky.social who will defend his PhD dissertation 9/9 🚀 A great, interdisciplinary project on a timely and important topic. We lool forward to working with Emil also in the coming period.

🎓Introducing *DR.* Rasmus Schmøkel 🎓 Today, our incoming Postdoctoral Researcher / former PhD student @rasmusschmokel.bsky.social expertly defended his thesis... The Impact of Algorithms on News Consumption: The Power of Social Media as Democratic Infrastructure and its Potential for Public Value

🌟A huge honor for our Centre Director Claes de Vreese, recipient of the Carlsberg Foundation's Research Prize 2025! 🤩🏆👏 Congratulations on behalf of all of us here at DDC Claes! This is so well deserved and we couldn't be prouder! 😊

New Semester, New Faces at the DDC! 😊😊😊 @hannescools.bsky.social is back to start his Marie Curie Fellowship! We welcome our Postdoc @hannahdecker.bsky.social to the team! And Maryam Khaleghipour (U of Vienna) who will be staying with us as guest researcher until mid-October. Velkommen til @sdu.dk!

Welcome back to Odense and SDU, @hannescools.bsky.social! Great to have you with us again 🤗🫶

🚀 And we’re off! First day of my Marie Curie Scholarship on news avoidance in Denmark/Netherlands 🇩🇰 🇳🇱 Thanks for welcoming me again @ddc-sdu.bsky.social 🙏 @ec.europa.eu

"Bluesky: growing status as social media platform of choice for world’s scientists... ...more engagement and original scrutiny than on X" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

People in Denmark have varied concerns about tech giants: - Impact on young people's development (83.5% concerned) - Role in spreading misinformation (81%) - Ability to influence public opinion (79.5%) - Economic power (79%) - Collection of personal data (78%) - Impact on social cohesion (75%)

I’m defending my PhD on Sept 9 at @sdu.dk 🎓 The defense is open to the public (in Odense from 10-12, followed by a reception). If you want to join, please sign up here: www.tilmeld.dk/phddefencere... Excited to share the last 3.5 years of work - hope yo see you there! @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

Danes are concerned about Big Tech’s influence on both their everyday lives and society as a whole – but few are willing to change their habits to limit the companies’ impact. Read the new report from DDC to gain insights into Danes’ attitudes & actions: portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publicati...

Danskerne er bekymrede for tech-giganternes indflydelse på deres hverdag og på samfundet som helhed – men kun få er villige til at ændre deres vaner for at omgås virksomhedernes indflydelse. Læs den nye rapport fra DDC: portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publicati...

Not all tech platforms are the same. Citizens view them differently. Though there are many concerns about their influence, only few use alternatives. Attitude to action challenge is real. Results from our latest @ddc-sdu.bsky.social report [DK] ⬇️ portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publicati...

⏳Sept. 15 deadline for our DDC TrygFonden Fellowships is coming up! 👀🗓️ Get your proposals ready and come join us in Odense! www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

What a blast. Our @ddc-sdu.bsky.social team completed the DHL Relay 🏃🏼 with hundreds of SDU colleagues. Awesome team with Anne, @emilbakke.bsky.social, @nielsmede.bsky.social, and led by team captain Lars. Thanks to all organizers and volunteers.

💓I am so (so, so) very excited to be joining @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social, starting February 2026, where I will continue my work on computational methods/AI, researcher data access, multi-platform language flows, and political extremism. 💓 1/

We are thrilled to announce that Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito will join the DDC as Professor in Digital Communication and DIAS Chair! @jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026. Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉

@nielsmede.bsky.social is opening our workshop based on his TrygFonden * @ddc-sdu.bsky.social fellowship on countering science related online harrassment - very excited to discuss how to support science communicators with a stellar line-up of academics and stakeholders!

This is a very important report from @thecoalition.bsky.social on the challenges of technology research: "Across countries, support for public-interest research on technology is rapidly eroding, just as society’s need for it grows more urgent" independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-...

We are thrilled to see our affiliated researchers & dear colleagues from SDU's Centre for Journalism Studies Morten Skovsgaard, @dieheiselberg.bsky.social, and @kimandersen.bsky.social shortlisted for this year's Bob Franklin Journal Article Award!!! 🤩👏 www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjo...

The dynamics between big tech, politics and journalism are changing. Help make sense of these changes and their implications. Submit to our special issue of @digitaljournalism.bsky.social 🚨ONE MONTH UNTIL ABSTRACT DEADLINE SEPT 15, 2025 🚨 Details: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...

Here's our postdoctoral researcher @frejasorine.bsky.social, presenting her research together with Thomas Enemark Lundtofte, & @dieheiselberg.bsky.social on "Understanding Danish Children’s Experiences with Misinformation on Social Media." 😊👏 #Nordmedia25

If you submit to one new exciting conference in 2026, this could be it: @epssnet.bsky.social Deadline Nov 7 New kid on the block, with the right value set 💪🏽 @sarahobolt.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social #polisky #Belfast epssnet.org/belfast-2026/

[🔥New Publication] 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬, you ask? 🙃 In early 2024, we ran a survey in the Low Countries on the use and perception of GenAI in newsrooms in 🇧🇪 & 🇳🇱. Small thread with key findings 👇

See this fantastic thread by @jilltxt.bsky.social, summarizing audience responses after they used their keynote at #Nordmedia25 to tap into ideas on how to use AI in our own work to make the future better... 💡⤵️

#Nordmedia25 day 2 - now with @Hugo Eckström presenting his qualitative discourse analysis on "recontextualising the mainstream: Strategic multimodal framing of the Swedish far-right on TikTok".

⏳CfP deadline coming up, September 15th!⤵️

✨HAPPENING NOW✨ #NORDMEDIA25 is kicking off, right here at the University of Southern Denmark! Scholars from all over the nordics have made their way to Odense, to share their research and ideas on "imagining livable futures" 🔮. Velkommen til SDU! 🤗

📢 NEW: Political Communication special issue on "Communicating Democratic Decline & Resilience" Manuscript Proposal Deadline: Dec 15, 2025 Full details here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Another DDC Thesis Grant🏆 Nikolaj Dall & Hanno Hagge have completed their MA thesis "Development of a Cybersecurity Anxiety Scale". Their research introduces a new psychometric tool designed to measure individuals’ anxiety related to cybersecurity. Read more about it here: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

🏆The second of our DDC Thesis Grants for Spring 2025 goes to Signe Emilie Hald Stockholm Can warnings about misinformation make us trust real news less? Her thesis explores how even well-meaning alerts can undermine news credibility in high-trust societies: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

NEW OPPORTUNITY! Postdoctoral Position (3 year) for Research Project: Talking Empire - Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW349/p... @cwswarstudies.bsky.social @sdu.dk @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @diis.dk @apecs-denmark.bsky.social

🚨DDC PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 Curd Knüpfer, Lance Bennett & Ulrike Klinger analize how legacy media amplify far-right issues. They update the #PolComm concept of "Indexing" via a form of proxy politics, whereby liberal institutional norms no longer function as guardrails against disruptive actors & ideas.

CONGRATULATIONS to our alumnus @madshovethy.bsky.social for successfully defending his PhD last week at the University of Amsterdam! Mads was an integral part of our first cohort, and we couldn't be happier for him and the trajectory his career has taken. 😊👏

What will make the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) work? @lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social, @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, & @claesdevreese.bsky.social team up in @techpolicypress.bsky.social to give us this overview!

Want to know more about political micro-targeting? 🎯 @madshovethy.bsky.social defends his PhD dissertation Friday July 11 @ascor.bsky.social. Supervisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Arjen van Dalen (@ddc-sdu.bsky.social) and I are excited. Good luck Mads!🍀 www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

✨NEW DDC TEAM MEMBER✨ Last week, André Rodarte began his new position as postdoctoral researcher here with us at the Digital Democracy Centre. We are thrilled to have him with us. 😊 Velkommen til Odense og SDU, @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social!

📖DDC PUBLICATION ALERT📖 Curd Knüpfer joins Ulrike Klinger and an interdisciplinary team of comms scholars & political scientists in this contribution to "CONNECTIVE ACTION AND THE RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT", edited by Steven Livingston & Mike Miller. (Available in Open Access: lnkd.in/ekiV6jfB)