News about Media

DISTRACT conference in the news: debating unnecessary panic considering social media

On December 5th 2024, a debate based on the DISTRACT conference “Weapons of Mass Distraction” was published in the Danish newspaper Politiken. The debate mentions several speakers from the conference and their main…

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2024

New book from the Reaching Young Audiences project

Writing and Producing for Children and Young Audiences Cases from Danish Film and Television This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the writing and production strategies used in live-action fiction films and…

Open talk by Lucas Graves

Professor Lucas Graves gives a public talk on his research on journalistic fact-checking. His talk title is "The end of fact-checking as we knew it? Change and challenge in a new global institution." The project arrange…

New article by Nina Grønlykke Mollerup

This article was published on 14 November 2024 in the trade journal Journalisten.dk. The article is in Danish.

Kontant: Hjernevasket til succes (Brainwashed for success)

Associate Professor Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen from the Center for Tracking and Society and the Department of Communication participated in the DR programme Kontant: Hjernevasket til succes.

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2024

Fake or fact check

New podcast episode with Mette Bengtsson in the podcast series Udsyn

Journalistic fact checking and the search for universal truth

Mette Bengtsson gives a keynote on 'Medieforskningens dag' 13 November 2024

Digital Media Metaphors

Edited By Johan Farkas & Marcus Maloney Bringing together leading scholars from media studies and digital sociology, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to digital media metaphors, unpacking their power and…

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2024

Who decides what we see?

Assistant Professor Signe Sophus Lai will be presenting at the upcoming conference “Hvem bestemmer, hvad vi ser?” hosted by Copydan Verdens TV.

New paper: “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms”

In the paper “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms,” current and previous DISTRACT researchers Thyge Enggaard, August Lohse, Morten Axel Pedersen and Sune Lehmann introduce a new way…

Mastering Meta-Control: From Cognitive Mechanisms to Practical Strategies - DISTRACT Talk by Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen

On Friday the 27th of September, Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen did a DISTRACT Talk where they explored core concepts and mechanisms of attention and control. They also provided research-based insights on ways of…

Completion of the first survey wave

Photo: Polizeiakademie Niedersachsen On 13 September 2024, we collected the last quantitative data for our first-panel wave with our project partner, the Police Academy of Lower Saxony in Germany. Over the past year,…

CBMR publications and media appearances in August 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in August 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in June & July 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in June & July 2024

Presentation of Preliminary Findings at University College Copenhagen (KP)

On 28 May 2024, we presented the first preliminary results to our project partner University College Copenhagen (KP) on Campus Tagnsvej. The reported findings represent our first year of research on the impact of mass…

Think Tank Kick-Off at the Police Academy Lower Saxony

The kick-off meeting of the think tank of our partner project Generation Future Police of the Lower Saxony Police Academy took place on March 21. The project is primarily concerned with the questions of how the…

CBMR publications and media appearances in May 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in May 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in April 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in April 2024

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.

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