News from Department of Communication and Arts

Social inequality often plays a greater role in the fragmentation and societal division attributed to social media, according to a new PhD project.

The Russian state-owned news media Sputnik and RT play an almost invisible role on social media during the Danish election campaign, AlterPublics data shows.

The research project AlterPublics at Roskilde University show in a new report how the two Russian state-affiliated media RT and Sputnik have been shared up to the invasion of Ukraine in alternative news environments in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and Austria.

Education is enormously important and we should never take that privilege for granted, says Erkan Özden, who is receiving Roskilde University's newly established Honorary Alumni Award.

 

At Roskilde University's annual celebration, professors Ann Langley, Karen Lee Ashcraft and Valery Forbes were awarded honorary doctorates.

Islam and immigration researcher Garbi Schmidt uses history to shed light on contemporary immigration to Denmark, and she is happy to share her research by offering tours of Nørrebro and talking about what has shaped the neighbourhood. Her wish for Roskilde University is more time for in-depth study – including for the students, whose projects deserve greater dissemination.

The recently established Centre for Digital Citizenship at Roskilde University will investigate how digital technologies are transforming public engagement.

PhD student Anne Julie Arnfred will explore how collaboration between science, art and curation can create new ways of working with academic knowledge.

Doris H. Gray has been appointed honorary professor at Roskilde University.

Professor Sine Nørholm Just, RUC, will be head of a new research project that will enlighten us on how we as a society and people can live with artificial intelligence and algorithms in a good way.