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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mail: digitalcitizenship@ruc.dk
Chris Peters, professor (MSO), cpeters@ruc.dk
Sine Nørholm Just, professor, sinenjust@ruc.dk
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.
The following projects are currently affiliated with the Centre:
Algorithms, Data & Democracy
Sine Nørholm Just – Villum and Velux Foundation
Alternative Media and Ideological Counterpublics
Eva Mayerhöffer – Carlsberg Foundation
AlterUse – Digital Alternative News Use in Denmark
Eva Mayerhöffer, Steering Committee - Independent Research Fund Denmark (Inge Lehmann), 2023 . DKK 2,879,859
Beyond the Here and Now of News
Chris Peters & Kim Schrøder – Independent Research Fund Denmark
DATAPUBLICS
Jannie Møller Hartley – Velux Foundation
DIS-TRUST – Digital Society and Trust
Esther Oluffa Pedersen, Steering Committee - Velux Foundation, 2023. DKK 5,697,697
#echopol – Modelling Polarization Dynamics on Danish Social Media
Eva Mayerhöffer, Steering Committee - Independent Research Fund Denmark (Research Project I), 2023. DKK 2,879,556
Feminist Activism in Transition
Lene Bull Christiansen – Independent Research Fund Denmark
Scandinavian Border Crossings
Rikke Andreassen – Forte
The Future of Cultural Policy
Anja Mølle Lindelof - Independent Research Fund Denmark (Network grant), 2023. DKK 718,479
Se mere om projeterne på Roskilde Universitets Forskningsportal
Vi søger tværfaglige forklaringer på komplekse digitale udviklinger og deres samfundsmæssige konsekvenser.
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
Ph.d.-skole: Ph.d.-skolen for Kommunikation og Humanistisk Videnskab
Uddannelser: Journalistik // Kommunikation // Humanistisk Bachelor // Bachelor in Global Humanities
Mere om Centre for Digital Citizenship:
Chris Peters
Professor (MSO),
Telefon: +45 4674 2238
cpeters@ruc.dk
Sine Nørholm Just
Professor
Telefon: +45 4674 3363
sinenjust@ruc.dk
