Forskningscenter Centre for Digital Citizenship
Centre for Digital Citizenship undersøger sociale og politiske konsekvenser af digitale medieteknologier – smartphones, sociale medier, algoritmer, data, etc. – og spørger, hvordan disse teknologier former individer, borgere, fælleskaber og offentligheder. Teknologierne tilbyder fremskridt for politisk mobilisering og offentlig samtale, men samtidig kan de potentielt forstærke gamle uligheder og splittelser og modarbejde tillid i samfundet. Centre for Digital Citizenship søger tværfaglige forklaringer på komplekse digitale udviklinger og deres samfundsmæssige konsekvenser.

Research Themes
The Centre conducts research on pressing societal challenges, focusing on the implications from the development, deployment, and diffusion of digital media technologies in all walks of public life, from governmental and private organizations, to the everyday lived realities of citizens.
Algorithmic Societies & Justice
As societies increasingly turn to data streams to model and understand human behaviour, automated and algorithmic decision-making processes gain increasing power to influence public policy and corporate strategy. Such processes raise pressing questions around issues of equality and ethics, demanding critical research into the politics of algorithms and their orientation in the public interest.
Mediated Publics & Engagement
Networks and social media have the capacity to bring diverse and distant individuals together for productive ends, but also afford those with harmful motives the ability to associate with relative anonymity. These outcomes of everyday media use require greater understanding how the affordances and infrastructures of platforms facilitate the formation of new publics and politics, including how individuals anticipate and respond to these developments.
Organizational Data & Governance
The digitalization and datafication of human behaviour and communication results in massive amounts of data in institutions and organizations, be they large tech companies, governmental bodies, or private companies. This aggregation and accumulation of personal and collective data relates to pressing question around privacy, GDPR regulations, surveillance and ownership, demanding enhanced governance to ensure standards, avoid malfeasance, and manage innovation.
(Dis)information & Trust
Transformations in mediated communication intensify and polarize issues of public concern, leading to a situation where even the most well-documented truths can be denounced as ‘fake’ while blatantly false statements seem to thrive. These new ideological battlegrounds and online shouting matches engender crises of trust in the platforms that mediate public opinion formation and those we encounter on them, ultimately leading to legitimacy crises in traditional democratic institutions.
Mere viden
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Kontakt
Mail: digitalcitizenship@ruc.dk
Forskningscenterledere
Chris Peters, professor (MSO), cpeters@ruc.dk
Sine Nørholm Just, professor, sinenjust@ruc.dk
Forskere
Se medlemmerne af Centre for Digital Citizenship på Roskilde Universitets Forskningsportal
The Centre has been founded by researchers at the Department of Communication & Arts but is open to everyone. If you would like to know more about the Centre and/or join, you are most welcome to get in touch at digitalcitizenship@ruc.dk or to e-mail the co-directors.
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The following projects are currently affiliated with the Centre:Algorithms, Data & Democracy
Sine Nørholm Just – Villum and Velux FoundationAlternative Media and Ideological Counterpublics
Eva Mayerhöffer – Carlsberg FoundationBeyond the Here and Now of News
Chris Peters & Kim Schrøder – Danmarks Frie ForskningsfondDATAPUBLICS
Jannie Møller Hartley – Velux FoundationFeminist Activism in Transition
Lene Bull Christiansen – Danmarks Frie ForskningsfondScandinavian Border Crossings
Rikke Andreassen – ForteSe mere om projeterne på Roskilde Universitets Forskningsportal
Center for Digital Citizenship
Vi søger tværfaglige forklaringer på komplekse digitale udviklinger og deres samfundsmæssige konsekvenser.

Base på RUC
Forskningsprojektet hører hjemme på Institut for Kommunikation og Humanistisk Videnskab
Relaterede forskningsenheder: Audiences & Mediated Life forskningsgruppe // Kultur og Medier forskningsgruppe // Organizing Communication and Digitization forskningsgruppe // Centre for Big Data forskningscenter
Ph.d.-skole: Ph.d.-skolen for Kommunikation og Humanistisk Videnskab
Uddannelser: Journalistik // Kommunikation // Humanistisk Bachelor // Bachelor in Global Humanities
Forskning på Roskilde Universitet

Mere information
Mere om Centre for Digital Citizenship:

Kontakt
Forskningscenterledere
Chris Peters
Professor (MSO),
Telefon: +45 4674 2238
cpeters@ruc.dk
Sine Nørholm Just
Professor
Telefon: +45 4674 3363
sinenjust@ruc.dk