Aarhus University Seal

Projects

Social Media Influence

Social Media Influence
Duration: 2023-2028
Funding: Independent Research Fund Denmark
PI: Anja Bechmann
 

A large-scale study of social media as infrastructures of influence in national populations with a focus on false information. This project adds to current knowledge by studying social media as infrastructures for influence in national populations with a focus on "false" labeled content as a case of information disorder in the current times of crises where media serves as important information sources.


EDMO 2

European Digital Media Observatory - Second phase
Duration: 2023-2025
Funding: European Union
PI: Jessica Gabriele Walter

 

EDMO is an EU project that aims at creating and supporting the work of an independent multidisciplinary community capable of contributing to a deeper understanding of the disinformation phenomenon and to increase societal resilience to it. The second phase of EDMO will focus on investigations, research, and training. In the second phase, the EDMO consortium is led by the EUI in Florence and brings eight partners to the table.


SHAPE

Shaping Digital Citizenship
Duration: 2022 -
Funding: Aarhus University Strategic Funding
PI: Peter Lauritsen
 

SHAPE - Shaping Digital Citizenship is a research centre which aims to promote democracy and active citizenship in a world which is characterised by data and algorithms. The goal is to generate knowledge at a high international level as well as contributing to public debate, business community and civil society.


NORDIS

NORdic Observatory for Digital Media and Information DISorder
Duration: 2021-2023
Funding: European Comission
PI: Anja Bechmann

 

The aim of NORDIS is to develop theories, practices and models that can help counteract digital information disorders – the spreading of misinformation, disinformation and other forms of harmful information online – and to help empower citizens in the Nordic welfare states to resist such information by enabling them to enhance their media literacy.


EDMO

European Digital Media Observatory
Duration: 2020-2022
Funding: European Union
PI: Jessica Gabriele Walter

 

EDMO is an EU project that aims at creating and supporting the work of an independent multidisciplinary community capable of contributing to a deeper understanding of the disinformation phenomenon and to increase societal resilience to it. The project consortium is made up of four partners including DATALAB.


ROPH

Research on Online Political Hostility
Duration: 2019-
Funding: The Carlsberg Foundation
PI: Micheal Bang Petersen
 

The Research on Online Political Hostility (ROPH) Project provides in-depth knowledge of the (i) causes, (ii) consequences, and (iii) counter-strategies related to online political hostility in all its forms. This major research project is directed by Professor Michael Bang Petersen.


NGI Forward

Next Generation Internet
Duration: 2019-2021
Funding: Horizon 2020 (EU)
PI: Anja Bechmann

 

NGI Forward is a 3-year project under the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative that aims to develop a future internet that is more democratic, inclusive and resilient. The purpose of NGI Forward is to articulate the vision for a future internet and set out the next steps towards achieving this vision through technology development, policy roadmaps and stakeholder engagement.


Intelligent assistants, knowledge & trustworthy partnerships

Duration: 2019-2021
Funding partners: Faculty of ARTS, Aarhus University
PI: Anne Henriksen

 

How are intelligent assistants designed to contribute with reliable knowledge in order to decide such contextual matters which often not are clear-cut right or wrong? What kind of partnership and delegation of competency are thus created in the human-machine collaboration produced? This PhD project examines these questions critically and sociotechnically.


Accusatory rhetoric on social media

Duration: 2018-2022
Funding: PhD Arts, Aarhus University
PI: Rebekka Lykke Ringgaard
 

The aim of this project is to contribute to our understanding of the forms and functions of accusatory rhetoric in a digital context and the way this kind of rhetoric is presented, shared and remixed across digital social media platforms


SOMA

Social Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis
Duration: 2018-2020
Funding: Horizon 2020 (EU)
PI: Anja Bechmann

 

The purpose of SOMA is to establish a European observatory to aid the work against online disinformation by developing new tools and services for citizens and experts alike to better understand, measure and combat disinformation and its democratic impacts.


Data Wastelands

Duration: 2018-2019
Funding: AUFF Starting Grant
PI: Nanna Thylstrup 

 

The past two decades the digitization of anything from library archives to social media information has increased almost exponentially. Both physical objects as well as our own lives have been inescapably intertwined with digital terrains in the form of smart cities, quantified selves and digital infrastructures. For many, digitization is perceived as a never-ending process of accumulation. As a consequence, plains of data waste are emerging.


A Pragmatic Theory of Social AI

Duration: 2017-2018
Funding: Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
PI: Anja Bechmann

 

In this AIAS project, Anja Bechmann critically scrutinize and discuss to what extent Social AI are able to create meaningful predictions that are sustainable both to our understanding of the social human being and to society.


Tracking the female body - the impact of self-tracking with a smartphone

Duration: 2016-2020
Funding: PhD ARTS, Aarhus University
PI: Amanda Karlsson

 

Based on interviews with Danish women using period-trackers in their everyday life Amanda's PhD project aims at exploring these intersections of privacy, datafied bodies and menstrual stigma. 

 


EMDAA

Emotional Data Lab Aarhus
Duration: 2016 - 2022
Funding: The Danish Council for Independent Research
PI: Thomas Bjørnsten

 

Emotional Data Lab Aarhus (EMDAA) has been established as an interdisciplinary research and knowledge platform concerned with topics and innovation within emotion and affective data analysis and cognitive computing.


A Calculus of Culture

Duration: 2016-2018
Funding: Independent Research Fund Denmark
PI: Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo

 

To overcome mainstream limitations and advance culture analytics, this project builds the Culture Analytics Network (CAN) which links renowned applied mathematicians from China and US with Danish humanities researchers who share an interest in culture analytics.


When the smartphone becomes a running partner

Duration: 2014-2019
Funding: Aarhus University
PI: Joeb Høfdinghoff Grønborg

 

In this research project, Joeb Grønborg investigates how laypeople use and combine different types of smartphone applications (e.g. self-tracking apps, music, training programme apps and game apps) in order to cope with their running struggles.


Digital Society

Duration: 2014-2018
Funding: Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science
PI: Anja Bechmann

 

Digital Society was a corporate and research network that aimed at bridging the gap between academia and industry to induce sustainable digitization and support knowledge sharing and cross-disciplinary collaboration between professionals in research and industry as well as students.


Facebook Footprints - Researching Social Big Data Patterns

Duration: 2014-2017
Funding: Aarhus University Research Foundation
PI: Anja Bechmann

 

Due to the increased usage of the Facebook Platform and similar big data companies in our daily lives and the pressure on topics such as data security and privacy, we need to investigate and understand more in-depth the data footprints we leave behind and the Facebook usage patterns at national population scale more thoroughly.


Researching the phenomenon of health-related Facebook-groups

Duration: 2013-2019
Funding: Faculty of ARTS, Aarhus University
PI: Ane Kathrine Gammelby

 

Ane Kathrine studies the everyday entanglements of health-related Facebook-group use. The objective of the project is to advance our understanding of the raison d’être of health-related Facebook-groups and to generate empirically grounded knowledge about the impacts of new media technologies on culture and society.