News about Digitization

Malene Hornstrup Jespersen presents at COMPTEXT 2024

In the beginning of May DISTRACT PhD Malene Hornstrup Jespersen presented at the COMPTEXT 2024 conference held in Amsterdam.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents EthNote for Anthropology master students at UCPH

On May 3rd DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen presented EthNote for Anthropology students soon to embark on their first prolonged fieldwork

New DISTRACT paper: "Who makes open source code? The hybridisation of commercial and open source practices"

DISTRACT researchers Anna Sapienza, Eva Iris Otto, and Peter Mehler just published the paper "Who makes open source code? The hybridisation of commercial and open source practices" in EPJ Data Science

DISTRACT Talk next Friday, May 3rd, with Rie Kristensen & Signe Vangkilde

Next Friday, May 3rd 11.00-12.00, DISTRACT will host a talk with PhD fellow Rie Kristensen & Professor Signe Vangkilde, Department of Psychology (UCPH). In the talk Rie Kristensen and Signe Vangkilde will explore core…

New CPH Tech Policy Brief by DISTRACT researchers

DISTRACT researchers Malene Hornstrup Jespersen, Kristoffer Albris, and Helene Willadsen recently published a CPH Tech Policy Brief that dives into the concept of screen time and explores how people feel about engaging…

Between coping and resistance: Migrant networks and alternative forms of collectivism

In a new article in Economic and Industrial Democracy Mark Friis Hau and Andrea Borello have taken a closer look at how migrant workers in Denmark build networks.

Attending in the Attention Economy - DISTRACT Talk with Jelle Bruineberg

On Friday the 1st of March, 2024, Assistant Professor at Center for Subjectivity Research (Department of Communication, UCPH) Jelle Bruineberg did a DISTARCT Talk investigating the notion of attention that underpins…

DISTRACT Talk this Friday, March 1st, with Jelle Bruineberg

This Friday, March 1st, DISTRACT hosts the talk "Attending in the attention economy" with Jelle Bruineberg (Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen)

DISTRACT research note: "Ukrainian refugee solidarity mobilization online"

In March 2023, DISTRACT researchers Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Tobias Gårdhus & Jonas Toubøl published the research note "Ukrainian refugee solidarity mobilization online" in European Societies.

Deon Digital's SFI system can revolutionise securities trading

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen has provided the research basis for a test programme of Deon Digital's Smart Financial Instruments system (SFI system), which shows promising results.

DISTRACT article: "How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy"

DISTRACT researchers Eva Iris Otto, Anders Blok, and Jonathan Holm Salka published the paper "How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy" in Journal of Cultural Economy in April…

DISTRACT PhDs present at SODAS PhD Days

In February, SODAS PhDs Malene Hornstrup Jespersen and Sofie Læbo Astrupsgaard presented some of their current work in the DISTRACT project at the SODAS PhD Days

Unumed lends doctors a helping hand

With the help of the Department of Computer Science, Unumed has developed a prototype that uses artificial intelligence to help doctors read X-ray images.

New article: "New methodologies for the digital age? How methods (re-)organize research using social media data"

DISTRACT researchers Sune Lehmann, Anders Blok, and postdoc at Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Yangliu Fan (PhD from SODAS) published in December 2023 the paper "New methodologies for the digital age? How…

DCR Solutions makes legal texts easy to understand with artificial intelligence

With the help of the Department of Computer Science, DCR Solutions has developed a solution that makes it possible to decode complex legal texts using advanced language algorithms.

Ethnote's rejsegilde

Yesterday, the progress of the digital fieldnote app Ethnote was celebrated at a traditional 'rejsegilde'

New article: "Exposure to urban and rural contexts shapes smartphone usage behavior"

DISTRACT Researchers Anna Sapienza, Sune Lehmann, and DTU researchers Laura Alessandretti and Marita Lítlá has recently published an article in PNAS Nexus

25 Students Join Forces to Reshape Tech Policy

The CPH Tech Policy Youth Committee has now been formed – with 25 students ready to engage in the field of tech policy.

Panel discussion on digital dependencies at Tech Policy Days

Last friday DISTRACT PhD Malene Hornstrup Jespersen took part in a panel discussion on digital dependencies held as part of the Tech Policy Days and the launch of the Tech Policy Youth Committee

Do you find work using an app or an online platform?

The GIG-OSH research project is conducting a large survey and is searching for respondents among platform workers

Modern blockchain technology to become our weapon in the green transition

Greenwashing scams, murky networks and poor oversight cloud the experiences of climate-conscious consumers and investors. Research from the University of Copenhagen demonstrates that we can create transparency in supply…

Social dialogue in times of crisis

A special edition of the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, edited by Bertil Rolandsson and Anna Ilsøe, examines how Nordic models respond to crises and times of uncertainty

Digital disruption diversified—FinTechs and the emergence of a coopetitive market ecosystem

In a new article in Socio-Economic Review Bengt Larsson, Bertil Rolandsson, Anna Ilsøe, Trine Pernille Larsen, Alex Lehr and Jaan Masso analyse the impact of FinTech on the traditional banking sector.

We are wasting up to 20 percent of our time on computer problems

Even though our computers are now better than 15 years ago, they still malfunction between 11 and 20 per cent of the time, a new study from the University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University concludes. The researchers…