• Enigma: AI & You — a project of the Media Research & Innovation Centre at SDU's Centre for Journalism, in collaboration w/ the DDC; 7th–9th graders advise Denmark’s Minister for Digitalization while researchers study how youth understand AI.
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• Social Media for Good — Hannah Decker investigates when personalization & media literacy can increase interest, knowledge, & participation.
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NAPNF – Countering News Avoidance with Personalized News Formats — A 2-year Marie Curie project by Hannes Cools, seeking to curb news avoidance & boost reach & trust.
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• The Experimental Social Media Platform (ESMP / “SDU Social”) — A realistic, modular research platform to experimentally vary feeds, interfaces, & algorithmic logic & observe behavior over time.
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• Public Service Algorithms — Rasmus W. Schmøkel’s postdoc project tests whether recommender systems can reduce informational inequality by balancing attention optimization w/ democratic objectives.
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• PRORESIL — Mapping what builds citizens’ resilience to mis/disinformation across platforms & contexts to inform evidence-based policy.
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• KV25 – Dit valg. Vores Danmark — A nationwide pre/post-election study across all 98 municipalities, paired with constructive journalism initiatives to strengthen local democratic engagement ahead of the November 2025 municipal elections.
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• Craft, Copy, Connect — Using NLP, network analysis, simulations, & experiments Emil Bakkensen Johansen studies AI’s role in creativity, imitation dynamics, & organizational adaptation in parties.
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• AINATA — Researching how AI reshapes authenticity & trust in the news ecosystem with surveys, experiments, interviews, & legal analysis.
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