News 2020

"Den Bæredygtige Stat" new book by Anders Blok & Rasmus Willing

Researchers at DTU and the University of Copenhagen have developed a model that provides new knowledge about how we move around in our everyday life and bridges a gap in the scientific understanding of mobility.

A large-scale research project among university students reveals that using your mobile phone in the classroom does not affect your learning negatively

Professor of anthropology and PI of DISTRACT, Morten Axel Pedersen, will be giving the annual lecture at UCL Centre for Digital Anthropology. The lecture is entitled 'Computational Anthropology: Quali-quantitative…

DISTRACT researchers Kristoffer Albris and Malene Hornstrup Jespersen participated in an online symposium

DISTRACT research assistant Anne Marie Hastrup Kristensen published an opinion piece in the national Danish Newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

DISTRACT PhD fellow Eva Iris Otto was invited to give a Tech Terrace Talk at the KULT network for ethnologists and anthropologists together with developer Nynne Just Christoffersen.

Assistant Professor Friedolin Merhout in France 24 telling about the IRA influence campaign recently uncovered in the United States.

Part of the climate movement is willing to see the global pandemic in a savior role.

Face masks have become a symbol of the current pandemic in many countries around the globe. Wearing a mask is considered one of the most effective measures to curb the spread of the disease.

Professor at SODAS and DTU Sune Lehmann tells about a new interdisciplinary collaboration that with large data sets will compare strategies and management of Covid-19 in Denmark and a number of other countries.

A word buried in the history books helped Danes mobilise during the pandemic, flattening the curve and lifting community spirit.

In June 2020, DISTRACT published the first findings from our study of how young people in Copenhagen, Denmark, managed to get through the corona lockdown. Read more about the study here. During the summer break, Danish…

What determines that citizens get the help they need and what are the consequences of a lack of help for the wellbeing of citizens?

A new study shows that our gaming patterns have changed during the lockdown and opens a discussion about gaming addiction.

A new research project, headed by Anders Blok, looks into how green NGOs in Denmark, Norway and Sweden have continued their climate political efforts during the lockdown.

Young students have not only learned to live with the lockdown during the corona epidemic. A new study shows that they have strengthened close relationships and found new, creative ways to be together online.

Professor at SODAS Robert Böhm proposes "ten considerations" in an article published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Together with other researchers Postdoc at SODAS Hjalmar A. B. Carlsen investigates solidarity during the Corona crisis.

Professor Morten Axel Pedersen and PhD student Thyge Enggaard from SODAS talk about the Danes' Twitter communication during the Corona crisis.

Last Friday, Morten Axel Pedersen and Kristoffer Albris presented ongoing reflections about the DISTRACT project at a SODAS Data Data Discussion event.

A group of researchers from SODAS and DISTRACT have explored how the lockdown has influenced moods and affects in Danish corona tweets.

Five researchers from SODAS have investigated how and why we tweet about Coronavirus.

Professor Robert Böhm has investigated whether the Danes follow the authorities' advice and recommendations during the corona epidemic - and why.

New grant: Researchers from Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) will investigate how the corona crisis affects the climate change debate on three major social media platforms in Scandinavia.

Assistant Professor at SODAS Kristoffer Albris joined the podcast "24 questions to the professor" with Lone Frank.

Jonas Toubøl from the Department of Sociology, Hjalmar Alexander Bang Carlsen and Snorre Ralund from SODAS are telling about their research on the Danes solidarity during the Coronavirus.

You cannot force strong families to diverse schools by redrawing the school districts, states Assistant Professor at SODAS Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen.

Professor at SODAS Robert Böhm says that now people themselves need to decide what is right and what is wrong.

Associate Professor at SODAS Anders Blok appears in an article on Altinget.dk, because he is currently working on a research project on Danish Twitter users' reactions to the coronavirus.

Assistant Professor at SODAS Samantha Breslin wrote a piece for The Newfoundland and Labrador Independent about data practices and Covid-19 titled “Thinking Outside the Crisis: Imagining Communities Through Data”. This…

Professor at SODAS Robert Böhm and Professor at the Department of Psychology Ingo Zettler investigate how the Danes react to the authorities recommendations during the corona crisis.

Professor and two student assistants from SODAS have investigated the Danes' behaviour online during the corona crisis.

Five researchers from SODAS have examined the use of hashtags on Twitter in order to find a pattern in Dane's favorite themes during this time.

In collaboration with the Danish Institute for Voluntary Effort, sociologists at the University of Copenhagen study the Danes' informal help and volunteeringduring the COVID-19 crisis through a large survey.

At Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science, a group of researchers are collaborating to analyze Corona-related debates and reactions across social and news media, funded by UCPH SAMF and the DISTRACT-project.

SODAS researchers David Dreyer Lassen and Sune Lehmann have received DKK 19.7 million from VILLUM FONDEN for their project 'Nation-scale social networks'. Using population data and data about mobile payment transactions…

How does social distancing affect us as human beings? What do Danes think about Covid-19 and authority initiatives? And how does the crisis affect our behaviour – from our own perspective? This is what four research…

As a direct result of the spread of the Corona virus and the acute health crisis in Denmark and the rest of the world, the Carlsberg Foundation grants DKK 25 million to a new Semper Ardens project to investigate behavio…

National sentiment and globalism are at the forefront of the corona crisis. The shaking can shake our way of thinking about responsibility and community, says Associate Professor at SODAS Anders Blok.

PhD student at SODAS and the Department of Economics Kelton R. Minor receives the EliteForsk Travel Grant awarded to young research talents.

How to provide complete information about a disease that still has many unknowns without causing panic? The Corona virus puts the authorities into a difficult situation, says sociologist and Associate Professor at SODAS…

Professor at SODAS Sune Lehmann in Nature Physics on how Complex contagions — for example when ideas spread across a network — are thought to be different from the simple contagions observed for infections.

Deputy Director of SODAS Professor Morten Axel Pedersen, Assistant Professor Friedolin Merhout and Professor Rebecca Adler-Nissen have been awarded an UCPH Data+ grant.

This Monday David Dreyer Lassen, Morten Axel Pedersen and Helene Willadsen visited Peter Halkier Nicolajsen and colleagues at LEGO.

On the 27th and 28th of January, SODAS hosted a Machine Anthropology Workshop to kick of the ERC-funded project, DISTRACT.

PhD student at SODAS Yevgeniy Golovchenko has been commenting widely on the developments surrounding the Chinese reactions to the Jyllandsposen cartoon of the Chinese flag.

Computer scientist at SODAS, Sune Lehmann, designed his first bots in 2013, as a social-network experiment for a class that he was teaching at the Technical University of Denmark in Kongens Lyngby.

David Dreyer Lassen and Morten Axel Pedersen talk about how computational thinking can be used in social science.

Has it become difficult to read novels? Have we become screen zombies who cannot help but believe in our digital platforms?

Why are fake news being spread? Who does it and is it a problem?