Clara Vandeweerdt talked to Danish media about her research on the effect of disruptive protest by climate activists.

Listen to Jyllandsposten's podcast episode with Clara: omny.fm/shows/hvis-d...

Or a shorter interview on Radio 4 Morgen: radio4.dk/podcasts/rad...

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SODAS Lecture on December 4! 📅

In this fascinating lecture, Sander van der Linden will explore psychological inoculation against misinformation 🧪 🔍

Event 🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

SODAS Lecture on November 21! 📆

In this lecture, Ruud Wouters will explore protest and politicization in the hybrid media arena, uncovering the dynamics of political contestation 📣

Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

What is the point of activists blocking roads or interrupting sports events? Clara Vandeweerdt shows that these kinds of protests are excellent at drawing attention to their cause. On the other hand, they slightly decrease support for the protesters' policy demands. Read the paper: rdcu.be/eJJrR

Greece has unusually many news outlets, but that does not mean its media landscape is diverse. Most websites cover the same broad topics--even more so when they take over news agency content, and when websites have the same owner. Read more in Yani Kartalis' paper: eprints.lse.ac.uk/129624/1/Gre...

Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Emilie Munch Gregersen wrote chapter 9, “Samarbejde i det kollektive feltarbejde”, in the 2nd edition of the book Antropologiske Projekter. They show how collective fieldwork benefits from a shared methodological infrastructure. samfundslitteratur.dk/bog/antropol...

We warmly welcome @keltonminor.bsky.social as a new Associate Professor in Planetary Behavioral Data Science, in a joint position with the Psychology Dept.

Kelton's research examines how individuals and populations adapt to rapid global changes in the atmosphere, biosphere, and cybersphere.

When it comes to ethnic discrimination, a story is worth a thousand data points. A new paper shows that one anecdote about a teen of Lebanese origin being turned down for a job 👦 is as powerful as a large audit study 📑 in convincing people that discrimination is real. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Last week, the SODAS gang went on a two-day retreat to sunny Hornbæk. After countless PechaKucha presentations, much swimming in the Baltic, and several worthy attempts at snatching the next Ig Nobel prize, we are ready for another academic year. 💪 See you in the classroom and the conference center!

Congrats to Anna Helene Kvist Møller for receiving a Carlsberg internationalization grant! Her project investigates how subtle signs of taste in visual content become thresholds for algorithms to control the (in)visibility of users in different 🌎 and cultures. www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-h...

At this year’s Folkemøde, Morten Axel Pedersen was spontaneously invited to give a talk to a visiting group of German democracy advocates. During the talk, he shared his research outcomes on democracy festivals with the "German Democracy Gang."

In a new paper, Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and co. present “broad data ethnography”. They outline four principles for the analysis of e.g. field notes: compilability (a shared data structure), compatibility (similarity in data content), counting, and computability. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

SODAS at Folkemødet 2025!

DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen, Emilie Munch Gregersen, Karoline Husbond Andersen and Magnus Nørtoft presented findings from studying the Danish People’s Meeting (Folkemødet) in 2021 and 2022 on the Research Stage at the People’s Meeting.

New paper alert: Anna Helene Møller and co. published a guide for social scientists wanting to analyze images. They recommend pattern exploration with unsupervised learning; theory-driven image classification; then context-sensitive interpretation by researchers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

On June 13, DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen, Emilie Munch Gregersen, Magnus Nørtoft, and Karoline Husbond Andersen will present at Folkemødet.

Watch the presentation on June 13 at 10:00 on “Folkemødets Forskningsscene.”

Read more 🔗 : sodas.ku.dk/projects/dis...

On Monday, May 12, the EthNote team – Professor Morten Axel Pedersen, Emilie Munch Gregersen, and Magnus Nørtoft – presented a talk on computational anthropology and hosted a hands-on workshop with EthNote at @ucl.ac.uk! 💡

Come work with us!

Assistant prof. Clara Vandeweerdt is hiring a three-year post-doc on a project using machine learning and survey experiments to understand who advocates for climate action in the media, and why it matters. 👩‍💼

Job call here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...