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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

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…

CBMR publications and media appearances in March 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in March 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in February 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in February 2024

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…

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.

Special issue of Visual Anthropology

With a stellar line-up including Dima Saber, Abdul Rahman al-Jaloud, Stefan Tarnowski, Ugur Ümit Üngör, Chad Elias, and Thomas Keenan, we explore the various dimensions of image use, archives, and recollections in the…

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…

CBMR publications and media appearances in January 2024

CBMR publications and media appearances in January 2024