The democratic conversation in Denmark is challenged, and the polarized debate on social media discourages many - especially young people - from participating in the public debate. A group of master's students at AU have set out to change this with the development of a new app that will facilitate…

In collaboration with researchers from the Department of Law at Aarhus BSS, SHAPE is behind a new seminar series on digital citizenship from a legal perspective beginning on April 26. The initiators behind the seminar series, Bettina Lemann Kristiansen and Per Andersen, explain the motivation behind…

Postdoc in SHAPE’s Digital Activism project, Renée Ridgway, researches the ethics and politics of digital infrastructures and, more specifically, open search and alternatives to prevailing search hegemonies. Under these auspices, Renée is part of a working group on ethics coordinated by the Open…

SHAPE's 'Digital Literacy and Machine Learning' project recently hosted an open workshop on machine learning for visitors at the main library, Dokk1, in Aarhus.

SHAPE collaborates with a wide range of interdisciplinary research projects concerned with democracy and citizenship, data and algorithms across faculties and departments at AU. Among them is a study of the Danish population’s use of social media during the general election campaign in 2022, led by…