Digital Democracy Centre

Postdoctoral Position (3 year) for Research Project: Talking Empire - Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain at University of Southern Denmark Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

NEW OPPORTUNITY! Postdoctoral Position (3 year) for Research Project: Talking Empire - Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW349/p... @cwswarstudies.bsky.social @sdu.dk @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @diis.dk @apecs-denmark.bsky.social

🚨DDC PUBLICATION ALERT🚨
Curd Knüpfer, Lance Bennett & Ulrike Klinger analize how legacy media amplify far-right issues.
They update the #PolComm concept of "Indexing" via a form of proxy politics, whereby liberal institutional norms no longer function as guardrails against disruptive actors & ideas.

CONGRATULATIONS to our alumnus @madshovethy.bsky.social for successfully defending his PhD last week at the University of Amsterdam!
Mads was an integral part of our first cohort, and we couldn't be happier for him and the trajectory his career has taken. 😊👏

What will make the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) work?
@lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social, @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, & @claesdevreese.bsky.social team up in @techpolicypress.bsky.social to give us this overview!

The Nature and Consequences of Online Political Microtargeting Mads Hove will defend the dissertation 'The Nature and Consequences of Online Political Microtargeting'. Supervisors are Prof. C.H. de Vreese and Prof. S.B. Hobolt. The co-supervisor is Prof. A. van D...

Want to know more about political micro-targeting? 🎯

@madshovethy.bsky.social defends his PhD dissertation Friday July 11 @ascor.bsky.social.

Supervisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Arjen van Dalen (@ddc-sdu.bsky.social) and I are excited. Good luck Mads!🍀

www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

André K. Rodarte Profile

PS: For more info about his work, visit André's website: andrerodarte.com

✨NEW DDC TEAM MEMBER✨
Last week, André Rodarte began his new position as postdoctoral researcher here with us at the Digital Democracy Centre.
We are thrilled to have him with us. 😊
Velkommen til Odense og SDU, @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social!

📖DDC PUBLICATION ALERT📖
Curd Knüpfer joins Ulrike Klinger and an interdisciplinary team of comms scholars & political scientists in this contribution to "CONNECTIVE ACTION AND THE RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT", edited by Steven Livingston & Mike Miller.
(Available in Open Access: lnkd.in/ekiV6jfB)

Big news for digital democracy research! 👀
#DSA
...and European democracy in general! 🇪🇺🗳️🛜

FINALLY 😌

The Delegated Act is here.

The Act clarifies rules for data access under the Digital Services Act #DSA

#dataaccess #research #eusky #commsky #polisky #csssky

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

📰DDC IN THE NEWS📰
Catch quotes by the DDC's own Curd Knüpfer in this @journalisten.dk piece on the state of US media and Trump's press secretary. (In 🇩🇰)

💡DDCxTrygFonden Update💡
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: The Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding has just been published by a team of researchers, including our former TrygFonden Fellow Konstantinos Armaos.

Access it here:
sks.to/autocracy

UPDATE:
She passed!! 🥳👩‍🎓👏

...with flying colors! 😊
Congratulations Dr. Eggers!
#DDCproud! #SDU

👩‍🎓DDC PHD DEFENSE👩‍🎓
Happening now: our very own @itsjeggers.bsky.social defends her impressive 5-article thesis on "The New(s) Need for Authenticity".
Opening words by @claesdevreese.bsky.social, questions by Nete Nørgaard Kristensen.
Go Johanna! 😊👏❤️

Now happening: @itsjeggers.bsky.social defends her phd @ddc-sdu.bsky.social with an impressive lineup of 5 studies in which she (and her co-authors) used social media diaries, eye tracking and behavioral experiments to study labels indicating the authenticity of visual content #veryCoolWork

Johanna Eggers

Special day today at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social with @itsjeggers.bsky.social defending her PhD dissertation 'The New(s) need for Authenticity. Digital signatures and content labels to promote authentic information in the online sphere'.

Go Johanna 🍀

www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

🎉 Congrats to Sara Inkeri Vardar on the DDC Thesis Grant Spring 2025 🎉

The thesis explores how innovation in traditional media organizations is often shaped-and sometimes constrained-by internal structures, leadership models, and professional norms.

Learn more here: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social is a great environment with really smart, friendly and engaging people - plus: Odense and Denmark are beautiful, so do apply for their fellowships!

The Digital Democracy Centre (DDC) is calling for applications for its fellowship program with support from TrygFonden! I was in the first cohort and it was an amazing experience! All details here: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning... @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics?

Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social.

Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues.

🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️)

www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Does your work touch upon topics to do with digitalization and democracy?
Want to come work with my fantastic colleagues and me at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social?
Then you should apply for one of these fellowship positions!

(Note: we are explicitly also looking to connect with non-academic folks.)

Digital News Report 2025 The most comprehensive study of news consumption, covering 48 markets around the world.

It’s Digital News Report Day.

The yearly, data rich, insightful report from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social dropped 🔥

Insights on news usage, influencers, trust, (new) platform dependencies and more.

Thanks for this continued resource.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

Yay! Go @lyngemoller.bsky.social! 🥳👏
...and @hannescools.bsky.social! Representing the Digital Democracy Centre at #ICA25
😊

@lyngemoller.bsky.social presenting our paper on journalistic roles and AI in a panel on the complex relationship between tech & journalism #ica25
@ddc-sdu.bsky.social

Hey #ica25

The @ddc-sdu.bsky.social has an awesome Fellowship program

Open for applications NOW for 2026

Very flexible and good conditions. Great group

Reach out with ❓

www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Indexing by proxy. Liberal press norms faced with a dilemma.

@curdknupfer.bsky.social @ddc-sdu.bsky.social presenting work with Lance Bennett and @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social @ascor.bsky.social
in the top paper #polcomm @polcomm.bsky.social session at #ica25.

Interested in AI, algorithms, politics, misinformation, the far-right or incivility? Then some of our talks might be of interest fir you #ica25 - and reach out to my DDC colleagues if you want to know more about!

There in spirit (and involved in several awesome project that will be presented): @lenafrescamente.bsky.social, who unfortunately couldn't travel to Denver but will still be very present in the conference program 😊❤️

DDC AT #ICA25!
In case you'd like to know what we've been up to, make sure to catch some of these talks or come say hi to our ICA-going team members:
@claesdevreese.bsky.social (in his double function with UoA & SDU), @dieheiselberg.bsky.social, @lyngemoller.bsky.social, @curdknupfer.bsky.social...

🚨 Call for Fellows!
We’re launching round 3 of our DDCxTrygFonden Fellowship program for 2026 🙌

We’re looking for researchers, journalists & policymakers exploring how digital tech & AI shape media, politics & democracy.

📅 Apply by Sept 15: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

#AI #media #politics