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We’re hiring a Student Assistant to work with AI models in the Digital Media Lab (deadline asap)

We’re looking for a sharp and curious student with coding skills to join a hands-on research project in the Digital Media Lab at Roskilde University.

You’ll be working closely with researchers experimenting with AI models to conduct qualitative and computational analysis on a fully local large language model (LLM) setup.

See the full job description here:

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Generative AI for Qualitative Research

Talk by lab member Mark Friis Hau

4 June 13.00-14.30 in room 40.3.045 at RUC (new date!)

How should qualitative researchers make use of AI? Mark explains how AI can be used to conduct research using the privacy-friendly, sustainable, and local-run AI supercomputer in the lab.

All welcome, no registration!

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Data Science in Python for Total Beginners

7 April, 13:00-15:00, Room 40.3.045 (Digital Media Lab)

All students are welcome to our introductory workshop on data science in Python. No previous skills needed, but bring your laptop.

Register by 1 April to frmohe@ruc.dk. Snacks and drinks will be served!

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AI x Controversy Mapping – Talk by Anders Kristian Munk (DTU)

Anders Kristian Munk (DTU) will talk about how machine learning and large language models can inform a cartography of the controversies that surround contemporary technologies.

Location: Digital Media Lab, Roskilde University, room 40.3.045

Program:

13.00-13.45: Anders’ talk

13.45-14.30: Discussion and Friday drinks (Mark Friis Hau will serve as discussant)

No registration needed – all welcome – please share

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Ny Lab Report: Nørdernes Twitter-krig

En kat😼, en flynørd✈️ og en veteran🪖 går ind på en bar – og taler om krig, satellitbilleder📡 og missiltyper🚀. Bag baren står en krabbe🦀 og en journalist📝 og fniser af et meme om ukrainske droner.

Forsamlingen er broget, men de har alle det tilfælles, at de bruger en stor del af deres tid på at skrive om internationale konflikter på Twitter/X.

I de senere år har der nemlig udviklet sig et ganske aktivt samfund af civile open source-efterretningsanalytikere (OSINT) på nettet, med farverige profiler og kaldenavne.

I en ny Lab Report undersøger vi hvem de mest prominente OSINT-konti på Twitter/X er i relation til krigen i Ukraine. Vi afdækker også måden de arbejder på og opstiller 3 typer.

Rapporten (20 sider) kan hentes lige her.

Rapportens førsteforfatter Nicklas Krarup kan kontaktes på nicklaskl@live.dk

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Lab event: The Digital Marketplace of Google – Commodifying Online Attention to Sell Cells

Public seminar with Anders Grundtvig, visiting PhD Fellow, co-organized by the Digital Media Lab and the Centre for Digital Citizenship at RUC.

Time: 9 December 2024 from 13.00-14.30

Place: Digital Media Lab, RUC (room 40.3.045)

Abstract

The commodification of the internet holds major implications for the information we all engage with online (Mager, Norocel, and Rogers, 2023) and thereby impacts digital democracy. Despite the attention to Google as a marketplace for ads, there have been limited empirical studies scrutinizing Google Ads. Coromina, Tsinovio, and Munk (2023) have developed a digital methods framework to work with Google Ads data for techno-social controversy mapping. Building on this framework, we are mapping the tradeable assets of Google Ads and the commercial actors associated with Stem Cell Medicine.    

All welcome – no registration needed – please share widely

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Welcome to Visiting PhD Fellow Anders Grundtvig

During October-December 2024, Anders Grundtvig will be a visiting researcher at the Digital Media Lab. Anders joins us from the University of Copenhagen, where he is a PhD Fellow.

Here is Anders’ words about his visit:

“My PhD project is interested in how publics find online health information about stem cell therapy. At my section at the Department of Public Health and in my PhD supervisor group I have great resources covering the health specific topics of my PhD project. With this change of research environment at Roskilde University at the Department of Communication and Arts, and especially at the Digital Media Lab and Centre for Digital Citizenship, where my stay is taking place, I will get support for uncovering the digital media parts of my PhD project. The themes that I will explore at my change of research environment are mediated life, digital citizenship, digital media technologies, social media, algorithms, data, public conversations, digital methods, alternative media, data publics, and datafication.”

You can reach out to Anders and read more about his work here: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/anders-grundtvig

And watch this space for the announcement of a public talk by Anders in the lab.

Welcome, Anders!