SHAPE seed funding recipients 2023
SHAPE has recently awarded yet another round of seed funding to a number of research projects and activities across disciplines and faculties at Aarhus University that focus on supporting digital citizenship.
- Maj Nygaard-Christensen, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences - Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus BSS. Project title: Mapping user journeys to digitalized services among socially marginalized people.
- Lizette Vorster & Anne Odile Peschel, English Business Communication, AU Arts & Department of Management, Aarhus BSS. Project titel: The impact of Metaverse Marketplaces on the lived experiences of People With Disabilities. Collaborators: Department of Marketing and Leisure Economies, Birmingham City University.
- Stine Liv Johansen & Louise Bøttcher, Centre for Children's Literature and Media, AU Arts & Educational Psychology, DPU, AU Arts. Project title: Digital participation of young people with disabilities.
- Gabriele Torma, Marta Victoria, Anne Odile Peschel & Jessica Aschemann-Witzel, Department of Management, Aarhus BSS & Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering - Fluids and Energy, AU Natural Sciences. Project title: Empowering active citizenship by virtual reality (VR) experiences: New opportunities to address social acceptance issues of innovative renewable energy systems.
- Cathrine Hasse, Maja Hojer Bruun & Christian Christrup Kjeldsen, Educational Anthropology, DPU, AU Arts. Project title: Socratic Ignorance in working with generative AI chatbots.
- Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric, IKK, AU Arts. Project title: Automatic text generation and large language models. Collaborators: Center for Humanities Computing.
- Morten Brænder & Lene Kühle, Department of Political Science, Aarhus BSS & Department of the Study of Religion, IKS, AU Arts. Project title: Watchdogs of Democracy – Journalist-Researcher Relations in a changed media environment. Collaborators: Institut for Naturfagenes Didaktik, DMJX, Videnskab.dk, AU IT - Udvikling, Center for Humanities Computing.
- Carolina Sanchez Boe, Interacting Minds Center, AU Arts. Project title: Experiencing and Resisting Technologies of Confinement, Surveillance and Data Extraction.
- Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Natalia Miranda & David Yen-Chieh Liao, International Studies, IKS, AU Arts. Project title: Methods and Approaches for the Study of Algorithms, Digital Acticism and Social Movements.
- Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver, Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, AU Arts. Project title: Curating Data – developing a tool-kit for data literacy.
- Nils Ole Bubandt, Department of Anthropology, IKS, AU Arts. Project title: Social media in Indonesia: trends and challenges.
- Nicholas Haas, Department of Political Science, Aarhus BSS. Project title: Harnessing AI to Evaluate the Effects of Inclusive Historical Narratives on Support for Democracy: Experimental Evidence from India and the U.S. Collaborator: Emmy Lindstam, School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs, IE University.
- Janet Rafner, Department of Management, Aarhus BSS. Project title: Visual human-AI-partnerships for cross-cultural civic action. Collaborators: Center for Aesthetics of AI Images (AU), Center for Hybrid Intelligence (AU), Academy for Talented Youth (ATU, Region Midt), Aarhus International School (AIS), The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) og Aarhus Kommune (ITK CityLab).