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Lunch Talk 27 Oct from 12-13 in Digital Media Lab, Roskilde University, room 40.3.45

What does the future of journalism look like in a time where young people are leaving news media for social platforms? Duckling is Danish-made app and community for digital storytelling among young people. In addition to the digital platform, Duckling also offers courses, a Seed Grant for storytellers, and has reached 50 high schools in Denmark, among other participants. Duckling is a social enterprise that has received funding from amongst others the Danish Innovation Fund and The Danish Ministry of Culture.

Bjarke Calvin Winding is the CEO and founder of Duckling and he will visit us to discuss their journey so far and their plans for the future. Bjarke was previously a fellow at MIT Medialab and Executive Editor at Magnum Photos in NYC.

Co-organized by the Digital Media Lab and the Journalism & Democracy Research Group here at RUC.

All welcome. No registration needed. Bring your lunch.

Thursday 22 Oct from 14-16 in Digital Media Lab, Roskilde University, room 40.3.45

The Digital Media Lab would like to invite you to the book launch for The Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and Ideas, an interdisciplinary glossary published by MIT Press, September 1, 2026, and edited by Kathrin Maurer, Rikke Munck Petersen, Dominique Routhier, Kassandra Wellendorf, and Kristin Veel. 

The book is open access: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262054171/the-aesthetics-of-machine-vision/

The event will feature the editor of the journal Grey Room, media theorist Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan in conversation with the book’s editors.

 There will be snacks, drinks, and books. 

All welcome! No registration needed. Please circulate!

Our public events program, fall 2026 edition!

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16 Sep 12-13 in the Digital Media Lab, room 40.3.45, Roskilde University

Talk by Yevhenii Osadchuk Ph.D., who is Machine Learning Engineer at the Centre for Digital and Computational Humanities (https://cdch.ku.dk), University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and buildingreliable AI systems for research and knowledge-intensive applications. 

He is one of the developers behind Relay, a private and source-grounded AI platform designed to work with large document collections. (https://relay.cdch.dk). Relay implements verification methods that explicitly ground generated responses in retrieved sources, allowing every answer to be traced back to documented evidence. Relay is model-agnostic, supporting both local and external models for secure search and customizable access to organizational datasets.

All welcome. No registration needed. Please share. Bring your lunch.

Unique opportunity for anyone interested in digital media and research.

Here in the Digital Media Lab at RUC we collect data from digital platforms and develop novel computational methods using GenAI, network analysis and digital ethnography.

Join us in one of Denmark’s best research environments according to Det Unge Akademi.

We are looking for two student assistants for 2026-2027. Application deadline 9th August.

Read more and apply here: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=1310&ProjectId=148167&DepartmentId=18969&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=False

How did Danish alternative media cover the 2026 Danish general elections? In our fresh new lab report, we analyse 928 articles from 14 different alternative news outlets. The report suggests that Danish alternative media presented different versions of the election campaign. Left-leaning outlets mainly focused on welfare, labour and parliamentary power, while right-leaning outlets more often connected the election to borders, culture, media power and national direction. Furthermore, alternative media help determine the emotional and thematic terrain on which parts of the electorate encounter the election. They do not just report the campaign; they sort it, sharpen it and give it political meaning for distinct publics.

The report comes out of the AlterPublics project funded by Carlsbergfondet and is based on data from the Nordic Alternative Media Observatory hosted in the lab.

Find the full PDF right here.

Time: 15 April from 12-13
Place: Digital Media Lab, room 40.3.45, Roskilde University

Frederik Henriksen introduces Zeeschuimer, a user-friendly tool for collection of social media data (e.g., TikTok and Instagram) developed by the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam).

Read a bit more about Zeeschuimer here on our own website: https://digitalmedialab.ruc.dk/external-resources/

Or read the full description here (scroll down): https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimer?tab=readme-ov-file 

Feel free to bring your lunch! And do share with relevant colleagues and/or students. No registration required.

17 Mar 13.00-14.30 in room 40.3.045

Sofie Thorsen and Sam Rahbar from the Institute for Wicked Problems (INVI) present their Involve tool for democratic innovation and their associated AI-driven model for measuring the wickedness of public problems.

All welcome – no registration needed – please share

24 Feb 12-13 in room 40.3.045

Søren Pedersen (independent AI-developer) presents his ongoing experiments with using AI for ‘live’ detection of political bias in online news articles. Among other things, Søren has measured 500 articles from dr.dk. He also made a browser extension tool called “Politisk Biasmåler” publicly available. After his talk and the Q&A session, Søren will also be available for more detailed technical discussions.

The event is co-organized with the Journalism & Democracy Research Group.

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10 Dec from 12-13 in room 40.3.45

Jakob Bæk Kristensen (RUC/Digital Media Lab) presents our new Issue Observatory tool, a prototype for harnessing search engine data and applying network analysis to track how public actors position themselves on various issues. Logins can be provided to all attendees.

Bring your lunch and expand your digital methods horizon!

All welcome – no registration – please circulate