🚨NEW PAPER The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public. It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy. What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues. [1/2] fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

FULL PROFESSOR OF DIGITAL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY ...at the DDC and DIAS, here at the University of Southern Denmark 🇩🇰 ...open to various disciplines, including law, economics, political science, communication, journalism, or AI. More info: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📚DDC PUBLICATION UPDATE📚 The Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication
www.elgaronline.com/display/book... by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social, & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social Feat. DDC's @claesdevreese.bsky.social, @curdknupfer.bsky.social, @lenafrescamente.bsky.social 🧵⤵️

How can platform researchers make use of the #DSA40 (EU Digital Services Act)? The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social is on the road today, visiting the with the University of Copenhagen to learn more from @dscheykopp.bsky.social, here from Berlin's @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social.

Class excursion day: @ddc-sdu.bsky.social is visiting Copenhagen University today to listen to @dscheykopp.bsky.social talking about data access under DSA - thanks @manuelmenke.bsky.social for the organisation!

New job opportunity at @sdu.dk! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS207/f... The @d-ias.bsky.social and the Dept of PolSci & Public Mgmt @sdu.dk are seeking an outstanding candidate to fill a tenure-track Fellow (Assistant Professor level) position in the field of PolSci @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @sdutek.bsky.social

🎧DDC PODCAST RECOMMENDATION🎧 Our 2025 DDCxTrygFonden Fellow, Anders Høeg Nissen, has just launched his new podcast series, which was developed in part through our fellowship program. The Podcast series deals with various aspects of AI in Denmark. 👂⤵️ pod.link/1591937564/e...

Fantastic to be able to continue my research in young voters and repeat my mobiletnographic studies from the Danish elections in 2019 and 2022 in the coming election (probably in 2026)

The 2026 Fellow cohort in the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social x TrygFonden program has just been announced. What can I say... fabulous line up including @annaneifer.bsky.social Asger Nim, @jasminemcnealy.com, @leahellmueller.bsky.social and many more. Check the full cohort 🚀⬇️ www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (where I work), has an ongoing collaboration with TrygFonden, which allows us to fund project-based fellowships. The upcoming cohort has 15(!) colleagues from academia, journalism, & policy coming in. Cool stuff. ...And the fellowship will continue in 26/27. 👀

Very excited to start working with the brilliant crew at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social over the coming year! I'll be exploring whether and how data visualization can enhance public knowledge about political issues, and the prospects for using visualization to help build stronger democracies.

𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗗𝗗𝗖 𝘅 𝗧𝗿𝘆𝗴𝗙𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗖𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁! We are thrilled to introduce the 15 (!) researchers, journalists, & policy experts from 9 countries to tackle one of the most pressing challenges of our time: the impact of digital technologies on democratic societies.

📣 DDC in the News A paper co-authored by @dieheiselberg.bsky.social and Arjen Van Dalen (SDU's Centre for Journalism Studies) has been featured by Mediawatch. The study explores how media users perceive the growing use of AI in journalism.

Full article [open access]: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨ New publication: 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐱 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 ✨ Happy to share latest research exploring how media labs are shaping the future of journalism across Europe. This study focuses on 6 European countries 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 Small 🧵

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! ⏳