Call for papers: IJPOR has a call for a special issue on AI, public opinion and democratic resilience. 1000 word initial abstract submission 🗓️: deadline February 15, 2026 @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social @algosoc.org @polcomm.bsky.social #commsky academic.oup.com/ijpor/pages/...

📖DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📖 @hannescools.bsky.social on... THE EVOLVING ROLE OF JOURNALISTS AS GATEKEEPERS IN THE AGE OF (GENERATIVE) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ...in The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism.

🗳️DDC DANISH ELECTIONS UPDATE🗳️ ...in which our Centre Director @claesdevreese.bsky.social draws on trends he recently witnessed in the Netherlands to argue that we should not trust chatbots with election advice. 🤖🙅‍♂️

The @ec.europa.eu 'Democracy Shield' plans have dropped. The focus on free, independent media, fact-checking, literacy, election integrity etc make sense. But: it needs to be acknowledged that many of these challenges are not from outside the EU only. Also from within. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

At today's DDC BROWNBAG LUNCH TALK Raha Asadi & Anine Henriksen presented their research on users of the chatbot Replika, which simulates human interaction and connections -- raising various privacy & safety concerns. Fantastic (if deeply concerning) presentation! Lots of interest from our audience!

DEADLINE FOR THE DDC THESIS GRANT COMING UP! Please help make sure our SDU students hear about this. (And also watch this space for more of these grants in the future 😉)

Deadline October 13th! New position at @sdu.dk @cwswarstudies.bsky.social #DepartmentofPoliticalScienceandPublicManagement Assistant Prof in International Politics with attention to (Critical) Intelligence and Security Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA655/a... @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @sdutek.bsky.social

✨ Audiences doubt the benefits of AI-generated imagery in news are worth the risks, new study finds. @andrewdeck.bsky.social wrote an article on our latest study in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social 🙏 w Dina Strikovic www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/audi... @aimediademlab.bsky.social @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

@hannahdecker.bsky.social is a postdoc at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social . She holds a PhD from @unidue.bsky.social, for which she analysed online political campaigning on social media and the role of personalised content. Currently, she focuses on positive effects of #digitalmedia and #medialiteracy.

'AI og Dig = AI and You' - a workshop for schoolchildren in Denmark by the ENIGMA museum in Copenhagen addresses the question of how children and young people perceive #AI and how we can teach them to think critically and creatively about the role of technology in society. 🏫👩‍💻🎨

#Socialmedia is often associated with manipulation, distraction, and #misinformation, factors that can undermine democratic discourse. ⛔ At the same time, digital platforms offer opportunities to strengthen #democracy by promoting political interest, participation, or knowledge. 📈

Care to know more about ongoing research projects at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social? Find out in the thread below, including one of my projects, the Marie Curie Scholarship 🇪🇺👇

This🧵of new @ddc-sdu.bsky.social projects👏 Cool projects by fx @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @curdknupfer.bsky.social @lyngemoller.bsky.social @emilbakke.bsky.social @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social @hannahdecker.bsky.social @hannescools.bsky.social @dieheiselberg.bsky.social @rasmusschmokel.bsky.social

Here is a nice overview of new projects, also the Enigma-project that I lead 👍🏻

Excited to share a wave of new projects either launching or joined by the Digital Democracy Centre here at SDU! They span AI, platforms, public service media, & civic participation. Visit our website & see thread below for more info: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

We congratulate our Postdoc Lynge Asbjørn Møller who has been appointed to the SAMF Talent Track programme! 🎉🎉🎉 The Talent Track programme supports some of the Faculty’s ambitious young researchers in pursuing visionary research ideas. Read more here: www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/fa...

📝DDC Thesis Grant now open!📝 Students at SDU writing their thesis in Autumn 2025 on digitalization, AI, algorithms or democracy can apply for up to DKK 10,000. Covers costs like software, data, travel, or participant compensation. ⌛️: Nov 15, 2025 Apply via [email protected] www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

✨ Happy days - @tjthomson.bsky.social, Ryan Thomas & I are writing a book! A few months ago, we signed a book contract with Routledge on - you've guessed it already - 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 & 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 - a topic that has dominated the news since 2022. 📸 below, 1st in-person meeting in Denver, Colorado.

The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account. On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !! They promise: - EU scientific news - Horizon Europe funding opportunities - Innovative EU-supported projects - Events, tools & resources Share the news 🔁

Come work with us 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab. Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science. Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions. DL 🗓️ November 1 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

The new EU rules on political advertising online take effect October 10. Google and Meta (FB, Insta) will stop political ads on their platforms 🛑 But when??? FB is now very explicit about when it takes effect: October 6 www.facebook.com/business/hel...

💡DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE💡 @lenafrescamente.bsky.social, Henrik Olsson, @abhishekr0y.bsky.social, @hdschulze.bsky.social, Stan Rhodes, & Alison Mansheim present a new multilevel system framework for studying disinfo! "The complexity of misinformation extends beyond virus and warfare analogies" 🧵⤵️

New Job! Submit by Oct 8th - Postdoc med erfaring i epidemiologi og kendskab til folkesundhed i Arktis / Postdoc with experience in epidemiology and knowledge of public health in the Arctic- fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... @sdu.dk @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @sdutek.bsky.social

📄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.