Deep dive by @joshuabenton.com in @niemanlab.org on our recent piece in Political Communication on misinformation perception biases #commsky #ica26 #thirdperson #polcomm #polisky www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/thin...

New pub in Journalism Studies ✨ "Expecting Humans, Encountering Machines: An Expectancy Violations Theory Approach to Generative AI in Journalism" Based on 60 itvs in AUS & Ger. Led by @ryanjthomas.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social

🧳DDC at ICA in Cape Town!🇿🇦 The International Communication Association is hosting its annual conference in Cape Town next week and the Digital Democracy Centre (SDU) is sending a sizable delegation. Check out our official DDC @ #ICA26 program overview below!

🔊 The magnificent @ddc-sdu.bsky.social x TrygFonden Fellowship Program is open, seeking the 2027 cohort 🚀 3 types of fellowships: 1️⃣ academic 2️⃣ journalist 3️⃣ policy fellows 🗓️ deadline September 1 Read the call for details and instructions 🚨🚨Spread the word 🚨🚨 www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

The Dept of PolSci & Public Mgmt @sdu.dk invites applications for 1-2 PhD scholarships within the areas polsci, public admin, int'l & regional politics, welfare studies, or journalism studies (Deadline: June 8, 2026) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL408/p... @apecs-denmark.bsky.social @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

📣 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗗𝗗𝗖 𝘅 𝗧𝗿𝘆𝗴𝗙𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 The Digital Democracy Centre (SDU) is currently accepting applications for its 2027 TrygFonden Fellowship cohort. www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

📘DDC (Print) Publication Update📘 @curdknupfer.bsky.social with Lance Bennett and @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social: "Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms" now with a page and issue number at @journal-of-comm.bsky.social!

What is not to like. Our Amsterdam lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social is visiting our Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social So many great colleagues in one room. To future collaborations 🚀 🇩🇰 🇳🇱 @curdknupfer.bsky.social @natalihelberger.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social

Very excited to welcome @claesdevreese.bsky.social's other home, the stellar @aimediademlab.bsky.social at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social today to talk about some of the big questions around #AI, #media, #democracy. In the spirit of both centers, the work of the early career scholars is in focal attention.

Interesting discussion about the role of #slopaganda #AI and #tiktok in Danish elections with comparisons to recent Dutch elections. Did critical reporting (from eg @kevinshakir.bsky.social) contribute to politicians holding back in using AI. @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social

Great to see our Danish Election Report out in the wild. Panel now discussing the use of Gen AI (in an ethical manner) during the election campaigns. Seems that audiences are very critical. "But of course we use it." And when Humor helps... Very insightful perspectives from practitioners.

DDC in Copenhagen today... For the official launch of the DDC 2016 Danish Election Report. Featuring a panel with journalists, researchers & party communication professionals. Moderated by @jolukito.bsky.social Huge tak to @manuelmenke.bsky.social & the University of Copenhagen for hosting us!

Launch of @ddc-sdu.bsky.social report on Danish elections #fv26 #dkpol @jolukito.bsky.social kicking off 🚀 💡 Fragmentation is key. AI dislike is strong. @emilbakke.bsky.social @curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @hannahdecker.bsky.social @runello.bsky.social Theresa Waalen

📘DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📘 Check out this Special Issue of Political Communication on "Multi-Platform Research"! Highly relevant & topical! Edited by @jolukito.bsky.social with @meredithpruden.bsky.social @yunkangyang.bsky.social @jiyoun-suk.bsky.social & Wei Zhong. Check out Jo's 🧵 with below ⤵️

Join us & the Department of Communication at Copenhagen University next Tuesday (May 12) for an event on the digital aspects of the Danish elections! Huge thanks to @manuelmenke.bsky.social for the Organizations & collaboration on this! Event in English. See you there. comm.ku.dk/calendar/202...

Lemon rhubarb olive oil cake for my last full visit day (at least for now) at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social #poliskybakes

New publication 🎯 Study on news audiences’ acceptance of GenAI in journalism: a case study across three domains. Led by @tjthomson.bsky.social, based on itvs in Germany 🇩🇪 & Australia 🇦🇺 Link🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... @aimediademlab.bsky.social @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

Slight first day of school vibes for my @ddc-sdu.bsky.social visit, complete with packed lunch

If you are in Copenhagen tonight…. “Is Democracy ready for AI?” Lecture in Academy of Sciences ⬇️ @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

Excited to connect with SDU scholars across departments to help set up this initiative, more to come, soon!

So... This was fun. 24h. Over 30 talks by DDC members and fellows, on topics ranging from AI chatbot to rural/urban divides, to polarizing network dynamics. I'm particularly proud of the DDC election task force presenting initial results, assembled in just over a month of work.

In todays' @ddc-sdu.bsky.social retreat, we get an update on the projects currently running at the DDC - with insights into how Danes perceive and use AI by @Therese Waalen Sandberg, impact DAOS by @Giorgia Sampo, AI in the news ecosystem by @lyngemoller.bsky.social...

I mean, at this rate, I really will have to open up that cafe+bakery! Thanks @ddc-sdu.bsky.social for the warm welcome, and for letting me talk about the politics of charts based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social work with @justynabandola.bsky.social @sotiriagrek.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Follow this 🧵 for ‘live coverage’ of the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social retreat, with awesome early career scholars, faculty, and our wonderful Fellows

DDC RESEARCH RETREAT (Spring edition) We've returned to Nyborg to meet as a group of DDC scholars and fellows (plus invited guests) to spend 2 days with updates on our projects and deliberate on future pathways. Thread below⤵️

Today @leahellmueller.bsky.social presents her fascinating work on comparative journalism - her work with @UN-woman on digital violence and her @ddc-sdu.bsky.social trygfonden project that builds upon this work - very much looking forwards to this!

📄DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE 📄 What's the role of social media in spreading hate against sexual & gender minorities? Anne Clausen, @lenafrescamente.bsky.social, & Peter Mayer provide the current state of the art, now published in Information Communication & Society! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🛑 Chatbots are not fit for giving voting advice 🗳️ Latest study from @liberties.eu on the Hungarian election shows lack of transparency and reliability in the advice. Our research shows that 10-15% by now use chatbots for advice, for young voters up to one quarter. www.liberties.eu/en/stories/h...

🎨DDC CREATIVITY UPDATE🖌️ As scholars of the internet, we know that it's important to showcase our creative output on social media. So here are the results of our recent DDC-Pottery-Paint excursion, leading to themed cookie plates, coffee mugs, Viking-inspired mead cups, candy bowls, & tea kettles.

Thanks so much for having me! It was a pleasure to talk with you (and to pick my "lone island" song, book, and drug!)

📄 DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE 📄 In her first official SDU & Digital Democracy Centre-affiliated publication, Josephine Lukito (@jolukito.bsky.social) & her co-authors link sales to conspiracy content data to show which topics predict next-day sales on the website Infowars. ...

DDC VALG-OBSERVATORIUM: HVILKE PLATFORME DOMINERER HVOR? Dataene om, "hvor" kandidater er aktive, afslører også interessante mønstre med hensyn til, hvilke platforme der fylder mest i forskellige regioner af Danmark.

A guide to the Danish election. 179 members of the Danish Parliament – the Folketing – are to be elected. 175 members from Denmark, two from Greenland and two from the Faroe Islands. You need 90 seats to have a majority in the Danish Parliament. 1/

We've been analyzing survey responses and politicians' social media accounts in the context of the Danish elections. This allows us to place platforms on an ideological scale. TikTok tilts to the right on the supply side (Bluesky = left). The demand (public) side sees X as a far-right outlier.

Mere om det danske folketingsvalg og sociale medier fra @ddc-sdu.bsky.social #fv26 #dkpol

DANISH ELECTIONS IN A HIGH-CHOICE SOCIAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENT Are we seeing the first signs of social media fragmentation & the rise of echo-platforms? Not quite! Very large platforms still draw a crowd across the political spectrum. But our dataset analyses also reveal some outliers and divergences.

DIGITALE KAMPAGNER I DANMARK OVER TID: FACEBOOK FØRER FORTSAT, LINKEDIN INDHENTER, TWITTER/X FALDER BAGUD Mere data fra Troels Runge, som har indsamlet disse indsigter gennem de seneste valgperioder. @runello.bsky.social

HVILKE DIGITALE PLATFORME FØRER DANSKE POLITIKERE KAMPAGNER PÅ? Ved hjælp af data indsamlet af Troels Runge (@runello.bsky.social) kan vi undersøge, hvilke digitale platforme der i øjeblikket bruges af kandidater fra de forskellige danske partier i det igangværende folketingsvalg.

Do voters want politicians to use generative AI? No Most citizens really don’t appreciate #slopaganda Some are indifferent. No one likes it. Our latest @ddc-sdu.bsky.social study ahead of the Danish elections ⬇️

Chatbots are increasingly popular as voting aids in elections. Most are not fit for this purpose. The generational difference in use is huge. Ahead of the Danish elections, 13% say they will use chatbots for advice. That is 1 in 5 in Gen Z. And 1 in 20 amongst Boomers. Source: @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

DDC-SURVEY: DANSKERNE VIL BRUGE CHATBOTS TIL STEMMERÅD 13 % af danskerne siger, at de vil bruge AI (som fx ChatGPT) til at finde ud af, hvem de skal stemme på. Blandt Generation Z er det næsten 20 %. Samtidig ved vi meget lidt om, hvordan vælgere faktisk bruger chatbots i en valgkontekst. 🧵

DDC-SURVEY: DANSKE VÆLGERE SYNES IKKE OM AI-GENERERET POLITISK INDHOLD ☹️ 49% svarer ’Jeg kunne slet ikke lide det’ 🙁 21 % svarer ’Jeg kunne ikke så godt lide det’ 😐 27% svarer ’Jeg er ligeglad med det’ 😀 Kun 2% svarer ’Jeg kunne ret godt lide det’ og 0,2% svarer ’Jeg kunne rigtig godt lide det’.

My colleague @emilbakke.bsky.social here at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social was unhappy with chatbots giving people bad voting advice. So he created a safer version of one, also being interested in what questions people ask it... Useful if you a) speak Danish & b) can vote in the upcoming 🇩🇰 elections.

Jeg har de seneste uger arbejdet intensivt på at udvikle AI ValgChat FV26: en chatbot, der giver overblik over dansk politik under valget og matcher brugeren til partier. Prøv den meget gerne selv her: app-ddc-fv26.cloud.sdu.dk Så bidrager du til vigtig forskning om AI i valgperioder :)

🗳️💬 DDC AI VALGCHAT NOW LIVE! 🗳️💬 Vi har udviklet AI ValgChat FV26, der hjælper med at skabe overblik over dansk politik under valget. Prøv den her: app-ddc-fv26.cloud.sdu.dk OBS: Svar er vejledende, og kan være upræcise eller forkerte. Eftertjek alle oplysninger! #dkmedier #fv26 #dkpol #valg2026

DDC: A ᴘʀᴏᴜᴅ co-sᴘᴏɴsᴏʀ ᴏꜰ @icahdq.bsky.social's #ɪᴄᴀ26 ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀᴛʜᴏɴ (ᴊᴜɴᴇ 3-4)! ʀᴇɢɪsᴛʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɴᴏᴡ ᴏᴘᴇɴ! Follow the event here: @hackingcommsci.bsky.social Find out more via the website: hackingcommsci.org And/or register here: www.icahdq.org/event/Hackat...

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3

Full house at today's DDC Brown Bag lunch talk, where our invited guest @jesperstromback.bsky.social presented his work on conspiracy theories. Lots of overlap with ongoing projects here at SDU! Thanks for coming Jesper!

📺 DDC in the News 📺 Midt i en valgperiode bliver vores digitale dømmekraft vigtigere end nogensinde. I et nyt interview i @politiken.dk, fortæller @claesdevreese.bsky.social om farerne ved “slopaganda”, og giver gode råd i en tid hvor politik og AI er sammenvævet. politiken.dk/kultur/medie...