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New video podcast on nostalgia in populism with Manuel Menke

The publisher Cogitatio Press has launched a new video podcast in which authors talk about an article they recently published in one of their journals.

New publication: Editorial introduction to special theme issue "Machine Anthropology"

How can the collection, processing, and analysis of ethnographic data be improved by computational methods? Can anthropological research – and researchers – be augmented or even replaced by machines?

CSTonline blog: Amanda Skovsager Mouritsen

CSTonline blog by Amanda Skovsager Mouritsen on fictional formats on TikTok.

SODAS Scientists add nuance to alarmist debate about consequences of smartphone-use

This week, three researchers from SODAS featured consecutively in the media speaking about smartphones, sociale media and attention.

Chapter on children as documentarians

New chapter by Eva Novrup Redvall on Danish children as documentarians of the COVID-19 pandemic in the book Documentary in the age of COVID from Peter Lang.

New publication: State-of-the-art network measure on polarization by SODAS PhD

How can we accurately quantify the level of ideological polarization of a social system? This paper seeks to synthesize the two main approaches within polarization theory: a traditional approach of opinion divergence…

CBMR publications and media appearances in January 2023

CBMR publications and media appearances in January 2023

SODAS professor discusses AI on the danish radio program Kulturen

SODAS professor Morten Axel Pedersen discusses generative AI systems in the danish radio program Kulturen

New publication: Digital Dependence

Five DISTRACT researchers have recently published an article in the journal Media, Culture & Society entitled Digital dependence: Online fatigue and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown. The article is based o…

ATR Issue 64 out now

The latest issue of Archaeological Textiles Review (ATR No. 64, 2022) is out now. Download the issue free of charge Or pre-order a physical copy

Two research blogs from interns at the United Nations Library and Archives Geneva

Over the last three years, CEMES and the Europe and International Cooperation (EIC) research group has had close cooperation with UN Geneva. As part of this collaboration, the Saxo Institute has sent two students - Nils…

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in December 2022

Poster session in Film and Media

Poster session in Film and Media: Master students present their empirical projects on socio-mediated scandals Integrating research and teaching is one of the pillars of education at the University of Copenhagen. In the…

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in November 2022

COMM colleagues collaborate in the latest issue of Literary Journalism Studies

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen and Christine Isager have both written an article for Literary Journalism Studies.

New book: Social Media Images and Conflicts

The volume Social Media Images and Conflicts edited by Mette Mortensen and Ally McCrow-Young has come out. This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out,…

Cross-country survey on digital disconnection habits

On November 23rd, PhD student at DISTRACT Malene Hornstrup Jespersen presented plans for two upcoming survey projects at the online Digitox seminar series hosted by the University of Oslo. One project aims in part to…

Joseph Burgess on radio show "Connections with Evan Dawson"

Data steward Joseph Burgess discusses early voting turnout in the American midterm elections on radio show "Connections with Evan Dawson"

New book: Researching Creativity in Media Industries

Mads Møller T. Andersen has published a new book about how we can research creativity and creative processes in media industries.

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2022

Two Radio Features with Thomas Szanto on Empathy and on Emotions and Politics

Thomas Szanto has contributed to two radio features on Empathy and on Emotions and Politics.

NorS Symposium on Social interaction

Brian Due invites researchers at NorS to a symposium for everyone who finds that their research revolves around questions related to social interaction in the broadest sense possible – from physical to digital, from…

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2022

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2022

Healthy democracies are threatened by false information, but not everyone is keen on a cure

Our democracy relies upon the choices of an informed electorate. But today, it is threatened by mis- and disinformation. More and better fact-checking is needed according to the University of Copenhagen’s Isabelle…