News from the DISTRACT project

DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen and Kristoffer Albris have been interviewed for the…

On the 17th of June the DISTRACT researchers Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard, Emilie Munch Gregersen, Clara…

During this year’s Folkemøde, Morten Axel Pedersen was spontaneously invited to give a talk to a…

On Friday the 13th, DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen, Emilie Munch Gregersen, Karoline…

On the 13th of June the DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen, Emilie Munch Gregersen, Magnus…

DISTRACT researchers Malene Hornstrup Jespersen, Kristoffer Albris and Helene Willadsen have just…

On the 11th of April 2025, DISTRACT affiliated Anna Helene Kvist Møller defended her PhD thesis…

DISTRACT-affiliated Eva Iris Otto just published the article “Mediating Market Moralities“ in the…

DISTRACT researcher Hjalmar Bang Carlsen and co-author Jonas Toubøl have just published the article…

Morten Axel Pedersen is one of the authors of the recently published opinion piece entitled…

On the 30th of March, Morten Axel Pedersen will participate in a conversation with Rasmus Kloster…

DISTRACT researcher Kristoffer Albris was in an article on TV2.dk, where he commented on the…

On December 5th 2024, a debate based on the DISTRACT conference “Weapons of Mass Distraction” was…

On the 14th and 15th November 2024 DISTRACT hosted the conference "Weapons of Mass Distraction?"

On Thursday the 12th of December 2024, Professor in techno-anthropology and computational SSH at…

On Friday the 29th of November five scholars (including DISTRACT researcher Kristoffer Albris)…

DISTRACT PI, Professor Morten Axel Pedersen was interviewed for the article: “Folk foretrækker digt…

In Analogiseringsstyrelsen latest episode of their regular 'book club' podcast they discuss the…

On October 30th DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen presented at the Digital Tech Summit,…

Recently TechSavvy Media published an article about the digital fieldnote app Ethnote, co-founded b…

In the paper “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms,” current an…

On Friday the 27th of September, Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen did a DISTRACT Talk where they…

Kristoffer Albris is the co-editor of the new edited book "The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes o…

Morten Axel Pedersen and former DISTRACT PhD Eva Iris Otto are amongst the editors in the newly…

On June 10th DISTRACT researchers Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch Gregersen visited…

On May 31st Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen presented on 'the festival feeling' at…

On June 21st DISTRACT researcher Helene Willadsen will present her work on 'Using workplace surveys…

Join us on May 31st where SODAS researchers Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen will…

In the beginning of May DISTRACT PhD Malene Hornstrup Jespersen presented at the COMPTEXT 2024…

On May 3rd DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen presented EthNote for Anthropology students…

DISTRACT researchers Anna Sapienza, Eva Iris Otto, and Peter Mehler just published the paper "Who…

On April 25th DISTRACT postdoc Helene Willadsen presented on gendered differences in choice of…

Next Friday, May 3rd 11.00-12.00, DISTRACT will host a talk with PhD fellow Rie Kristensen &…

DISTRACT researchers Malene Hornstrup Jespersen, Kristoffer Albris, and Helene Willadsen recently…

On Friday the 1st of March, 2024, Assistant Professor at Center for Subjectivity Research…

DISTRACT researcher Helene Willadsen and co-authors Sarah Zaccagni, Marco Piovesan, and Erik…

This Friday, March 1st, DISTRACT hosts the talk "Attending in the attention economy" with Jelle…

In March 2023, DISTRACT researchers Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Tobias Gårdhus & Jonas Toubøl published…

DISTRACT researchers Eva Iris Otto, Anders Blok, and Jonathan Holm Salka published the paper "How…

In February, SODAS PhDs Malene Hornstrup Jespersen and Sofie Læbo Astrupsgaard presented some of…

DISTRACT researchers Sune Lehmann, Anders Blok, and postdoc at Weizenbaum Institute for the…

Yesterday, the progress of the digital fieldnote app Ethnote was celebrated at a traditional…

In the beginning of December, Morten Axel Pedersen gave a talk on the potentials and pitfalls of…

Last week a test-event exploring new users' first meeting with digital fieldnote appe app Ethnote…

During the latest monthly session of the Maastricht University Ethnography Group, Emilie Munch…

On December 5th 2023, Malene Hornstrup Jespersen and Kristoffer Albris gave a presentation to the…

DISTRACT Researchers Anna Sapienza, Sune Lehmann, and DTU researchers Laura Alessandretti and Marit…

As part of the SAMF Research Day, DISTRACT PhD Malene Hornstrup Jespersen took part in a panel…

Last friday DISTRACT PhD Malene Hornstrup Jespersen took part in a panel discussion on digital…

Kristoffer Albris has recently published an article in the Danish language journal Tidsskriftet…

On Friday the 15th of September, 2023, professor Christian Borch & postdoc Nicholas Skar-Gislinge…

On the 13th of September 2023, Kristoffer Albris gave a presentation about Methods Diversity in…

On Monday the 21st of August 2023, DISTRACT members Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch…

Research assistant Emilie Munch Gregersen has recently featured in a video, explaining some finding…

On the 22nd of June, 2023, PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto successfully defended her thesis entitled Codin…

DISTRACT team members Morten Axel Pedersen (PI), August Lohse and Emilie Munch Gregersen were…

Morten Axel Pedersen and Kristoffer Albris have been interviewed for the Danish newspaper Berlingsk…

On May 28th 2023, DISTRACT researchers were part of a symposium at the science festival BLOOM.…

On May 25, DISTRACT PhD student Malene Hornstrup Jespersen gave a presentation at ICA…

DISTRACT PI, professor Morten Axel Pedersen, was on the Danish Radio P1, on the show "Orientering",…

On April 12th, 2023, DISTRACT PhD fellow Eva Otto (UCPH), in collaboration with Miquel Alcalde (LSE…

DISTRACT researchers, Associate professor Anders Blok, PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto, and student…

On Friday the 10th of March, Mikka Nielsen gave give a DISTRACT talk based on her research on ADHD.…

Prof. Morten Axel Pedersen, director of SODAS, has just published a paper in the journal Big Data…

A group of DISTRACT researchers have recently published a new article in the field leading journal…

Five DISTRACT researchers have recently published an article in the journal Media, Culture & Societ…

On the 26th of January, DISTRACT team members Morten Axel Pedersen (PI), August Lohse, Emilie Munch…

On Wednesday January 18th, PhD student Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Assistant Professor Kristoffer…

DISTRACT PhD August Lohse and professor Morten Axel Pedersen have been awarded a Research…

PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto presented at the event "DataBeers" on the 30th of November. The title for…

On November 23rd, PhD student at DISTRACT Malene Hornstrup Jespersen presented plans for two…

Phd-fellow Eva Otto presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association…

On November 7th, DISTRACT PhD student August Lohse presented a project at the Danish Data Science…

On the 11th of November, DISTRACT student assistant Peter Mehler gave a presentation at a SODAS Dat…

Assistant professor Kristoffer Albris gave a conference presentation based on the paper "Inter-risk…

Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard presented a poster at the Conference for Quantitative Ethnography, held in…

DISTRACT researchers Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Emilie Munch Gregersen have - in collaboration with…

DISTRACT was represented by several scholars at a workshop hosted by the Department of Anthropology…

From 13-19 June, more than twenty researchers and student assistants associated with the Political…

On the 26th of May, DISTRACT PhD student Malene Hornstrup Jespersen gave a presentation at ICA…

Assistant professor Kristoffer Albris has recently been on the podcast Future Loading: Unge Samtale…

Assistant professor Kristoffer Albris has co-authored a recently published report by the DJØF TechD…

Last week, several members of the DISTRACT team went on a Silent Retreat to Samsø in order to…

Assistant professor and DISTRACT team member Hjalmar Bang Carlsen has recently published (with…

On Friday May 6, associate professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science…

Last month, DISTRACT PI Morten Axel Pedersen commented on why we humans party in an article about…

On a sunny April day, the DISTRACT team met for a one-day theory "retreat" in Copenhagen. The…

An article by DISTRACT researchers Thyge Enggaard, Anders Blok and Morten Axel Pedersen as well as…

DISTRACT Assistant Professor Kristoffer Albris has contributed to the Faculty of Social Science's…

The diagnosed rise of "surveillance society" or "surveillance capitalism" has in recent decades…

For a project day about the interplay between math and social studies, DISTRACT PhD Fellows Sofie…

DISTRACT Assistant Professor Kristoffer Albris is commenting on the hero image of Ukrainian…

DISTRACT co-PI Sune Lehmann has recently published an article in the journal Nature Human Behavior,…

Friday the 25th of February, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology and…

An article by DISTRACT researchers Annika Isfeldt, Thyge Enggaard, Anders Blok and Morten Axel…

On the 9th of February, DISTRACT PI Morten Axel Pedersen and DISTRACT PhD Fellow Eva Otto each gave…

After another couple of months working from home, the DISTRACT team met at Hornbækhus for an intens…

On January 20. researchers from DISTRACT and colleagues from DICO hosted a workshop on Post-Platfor…

DISTRACT PI Morten Axel Pedersen, has been appointed to become a new member of the Royal Danish…

On the 17th of December, senior data scientist from Lego and DISTRACT collaborator Peter Halkier…

On the 10th of December 2021, the DISTRACT team was paid an online visit from the project's ethics…

On the 10th of December 2021, professor of public health Naja Hulvej Rod gave a presentation at a…

On the 26th of November, DISTRACT PhD student August Lohse gave a presentation at a SODAS Data…

DISTRACT postdoc Helene Willadsen presented a paper entitled Earnings, Fertility and Gender…

On the 19th of November 2021, associate professor at DPU Andreas Lieberoth gave a DISTRACT seminar…

DISTRACT Vice-PI and assistant professor Kristoffer Albris, has been appointed to DJØF's TechDK…

LEGO’s Senior Data Scientist, Peter Halkier Nicolajsen, will be a regular guest at SODAS and in the…

On the 8th of October, assistant professor Kristoffer Albris gave a presentation to researchers at…

At the conference Anthropology of Technology which took place in Aarhus November 4-5, 2021, PhD…

On the 5th of November 2021, assistant professor Kristoffer Albris gave a presentation at the Danis…

Together with a team of colleagues, assistant professor and DISTRACT researcher Hjalmar Bang Carlse…

On the 29th of October, Signe Sophus Lai and Sofie Flensburg gave a presentation at a DISTRACT…

On the 19th of October, DISTRACT PI, Professor Morten Axel Pedersen was a guest on the radio…

On the 8th of October, student assistants at DISTRACT Emilie Munch Gregersen and Sofie Læbo…

On the 22nd and 23rd of September, DISTRACT hosted an international seminar entitled Studying the…

On the 24th of September, Jeppe Høy Christensen from Eriksholm Research Center gave a presentation…

Peter Halkier Nicolajsen from LEGO visited DISTRACT and gave a talk entitled ""Counting What Counts…

DISTRACT researchers have published two new papers in the journal Big Data & Society. Both papers…

On the 14th of September 2021, DISTRACT Vice PI Kristoffer Albris gave a presentation on data ethic…

DISTRACT PI Morten Axel Pedersen and Vice PI Kristoffer Albris have published a new paper entitled…

DISTRACT team member and assistant professor Kristoffer Albris was recently interviewed by the…

The People's Meeting (Folkemødet) is an annual politics and democracy festival event held on the…

On the 11th of June, Olivier Driessens, Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication,…

On the 28th of May 2021 Odysseus Stone gave a DISTRACT seminar talk entitled "What we care about…

The university of Copenhagen Data+ Pool is aimed at funding cross-disciplinary projects that…

On the 23rd of April, Paula Helm, post doc at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences…

On the 21st of April 2021, Kristoffer Albris presented ongoing work on digital detox that he has…

On the 19th of April 2021, PhD fellow on the DISTRACT project Eva Iris Otto, gave a presentation to…

On the 16th of April, Associate Professor of Tilburg University Mariek Vanden Abeele gave a DISTRAC…

How do teachers experience student attentiveness in the online school? In a new blogpost, DISTRACT…

On the 26th of March, members of DISTRACT presented their work in progress on e.g. attention in the…

On the 15th of March, preliminary findings were presented by Anders Blok, Co-PI and Associate…

On the 11th of March, Postdoc Helene Willadsen gave a presentation titled “Risk, Time and Social…

On the 8th of March, student assistant - and soon to be PhD student - at SODAS, August Lohse, gave …

On the 1st of March, Helene Willadsen, Postdoc at SODAS, presented findings from a recent survey on…

The Danish online news site Zetland has recently published a feature article on the changing nature…

On the 23rd of February, Kristoffer Albris gave a presentation entitled Digital Technologies in a…

DISTRACT team member Kristoffer Albris was one of the panelists in the first panel in a series of…

DISTRACT PI Morten Axel Pedersen has been in the Danish news media recently, commenting on…

DISTRACT researchers presented experiences from their research using digital and remote methods and…

On the 29th of January 2021, Trine Syvertsen, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oslo,…

DISTRACT has entered into a collaboration with Folkemødet ('The People's Meeting') in order to…

On December the 18th, the DISTRACT members of staff finished off DISTRACT's first year by sharing…

On Friday the 11th of December, Anna Sapienza, Postdoctoral Researcher at DISTRACT gave a…

Kristoffer Albris, assistant professor of anthropology at SODAS and vice PI of DISTRACT, gave a tal…

On December 4th, DISTRACT's Ethics Advisor, Professor Peter Sandøe, visited the PIs at DISTRACT to…

On Friday the 27th, Jesper Aagaard, Associate Professor at The Department of Psychology and…

On Friday the 20th of November, DISTRACT staff presented ongoing research to students at the new…

DISTRACT member and assistant professor Kristoffer Albris gave the keynote for a conference at the…

On November 11th, Annika Isfeldt, Research Assistant at DISTRACT, facilitated a focus group…

Digital mistrust: Rethinking trust in digitalizing societies While there is little agreement within…

Along with colleagues from SODAS, David Dreyer Lassen who is DISTRACT Co-PI and professor of…

The Department of Anthropology at The University of Copenhagen has published a virtual special issu…

On October 30th, Ulrik Lyngs, PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford, gave a…

On October 5th, professor of anthropology and PI of DISTRACT, Morten Axel Pedersen, gave a…

Professor of anthropology and PI of DISTRACT, Morten Axel Pedersen, will be giving the annual…

Co-PI of DISTRACT and associate professor in sociology, Anders Blok, presented findings of DISTRACT…

DISTRACT team member and assistant professor in sociology, Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, participated in a…

DISTRACT research assistant Anne Marie Hastrup Kristensen published an opinion piece in the nationa…

On the 25th of august, DISTRACT researchers Kristoffer Albris and Malene Hornstrup Jespersen…

DISTRACT PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto was invited to give a Tech Terrace Talk at the KULT network for…

DISTRACT assistant Anne Marie Hastrup Kristensen recently published an opinion piece in the Danish…

The DISTRACT team has been very busy in the last couple of months, collecting and analyzing data…

In June 2020, DISTRACT published the first findings from our study of how young people in…

DISTRACT researchers have contributed to a new blog posts examining how Scandinavian green NGOs hav…

DISTRACT researchers have recently published a new study of how our gaming patterns changed during…

The corona epidemic and the subsequent closure of large sections of society have turned many…

On the 19th of June, DISTRACT postdoc Anna Sapienza presented her recent research project on online…

Professor and DISTRACT PI Morten Axel Pedersen, PhD student Thyge Ryom Enggaard were guest on the…

On Friday the 29th of May, DISTRACT assistants Emilie Gregersen, Sofie Astrupgaard and Malene…

DISTRACT researcher and PhD student at SODAS Thyge Ryom Enggaard was a guest on the radio program P…

DISTRACT researchers have contributed to the second installment of research blogs on the corona…

Morten Axel Pedersen and Kristoffer Albris presented ongoing reflections about the DISTRACT project…

DISTRACT Co-PI Anders Blok is heading a new project funded by the Velux Foundation, which examines…

DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen, Anders Blok, Thyge Enggård and Tobias Gårdhus have…

DISTRACT Workshop: A New Fieldnote Standard in XML

Ethics workshop with Professor Peter Sandøe

Together with colleagues at SODAS, DISTRACT researchers have analyzed Corona-related debates and…

Methods workshop with Laura Nelson

Several DISTRACT researchers have been part of teams that have received funding for conducting…

DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen and Kristoffer Albris presented the project at the Center…

On the 3rd of February, DISTRACT members David Dreyer Lassen, Morten Axel Pedersen and Helene…

Machine Anthropology workshop