News about Data

"Weapons of Mass Distraction?" Conference held in November

On the 14th and 15th November 2024 DISTRACT hosted the conference "Weapons of Mass Distraction?"

Coming soon – offline speech recognition even on low-memory phones

More than one in four people currently integrate speech recognition into their daily lives. A new algorithm developed by a University of Copenhagen researcher and his international colleagues makes it possible to…

Jakub Tětek awarded Best Paper Distinction at FOCS'24

Jakub Tětek, PhD student from BARC, has ben awarded Best Paper Distinction at FOCS 2024.

Soft City Sensing – DISTRACT Talk with Anders Koed Madsen

On Thursday the 12th of December 2024, Professor in techno-anthropology and computational SSH at Aalborg University Anders Koed Madsen did a DISTRACT Talk suggesting that the combination of geo-coded digital traces and…

New SODAS professional training courses

You can now sign up for two new SODAS professional training courses taking place in early 2025

BARC visited ITU for the social programming event of the year

BARCies coding for drinks!

PhD Fellow: Architecture for data sharing is anything but smooth and seamless 

Data sharing across systems and countries is not just a technical challenge. It’s a negotiation filled with tension and friction, and the implications go far beyond the shape of the data architecture, says new PhD…

BARC welcomes Hanzhi Wang

BARC welcomes new Postdoc Hanzhi Wang to the team.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents at Digital Tech Summit 2024

On October 30th DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen presented at the Digital Tech Summit, where she pitched the digital fieldnote app Ethnote designed for collecting, sharing, and analyzing qualitative data. …

New article: ”EthNote gives qualitative research a new format”

Recently TechSavvy Media published an article about the digital fieldnote app Ethnote, co-founded by DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen and DISTRACT coordinator Karoline Husbond Andersen. The article is written…

5 BARC papers at FOCS'24

BARC members and affiliates are presenting 5 papers at FOCS’24 held in Chicago, USA.

BARC welcomes Prateek Dwivedi

BARC welcomes new Postdoc Prateek Dwivedi to the team.

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…

BARC welcomes Mads Vestergaard Jensen

BARC welcomes new PhD student Mads Vestergaard Jensen to the team.

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…

BARC welcomes Florestan Brunck

BARC welcomes new PhD student Florestan Brunck to the team.

Long-COVID sufferers are conserving strength with a "hack" of their fitness tech

When people suffering from the long-term effects of COVID-19 faced more questions than answers from doctors, they began collecting data on themselves using fitness watches to better understand their disease. University…

New edited volume: “The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection”

Kristoffer Albris is the co-editor of the new edited book "The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection" published on Nordicom

BARC welcomes Tuukka Korhonen

BARC welcomes new Postdoc Tuukka Korhonen to the team.

BARC welcomes Christian Bertram

BARC welcomes new PhD student Christian Bertram to the team.

BARC's birthday

We celebrate 7 years of fabulous research, strong results, wonderful colleagues and good times!

New center will future-proof education of experts to Danish life science

University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark are leading a new center that will boost the pharmaceutical sciences education by integrating data science at all levels of education.

'The Social Life of Health Data': Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana

Guest Researcher at CAS and Marie Curie fellow at the IT University Alena Thiel has published a new book examining 'The Social Life of Health Data'

New edited book: The Economic Lives of Platforms - Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets

Morten Axel Pedersen and former DISTRACT PhD Eva Iris Otto are amongst the editors in the newly published book "The Economic Lives of Platforms: Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets"