To say that digital technologies are political was once an exotic, academic and to some radical suggestion. Now it has become a well-accepted, almost trivial ground truth. Digital technologies are omnipresent, yet opaque and complex infrastructures for businesses, organizations and nation states. They are part and parcel of human interaction, sociality, knowledge creation and subjectivity formation. Most recently, Gen AI as a wildfire, is disrupting practices on multiple levels and digital technologies and the companies behind them have become obvious geopolitical actors.  

A key concern is thus to investigate, debate and think about how digital technologies, democracy and citizenship interweave and are transformed. Digital technologies are not just super highways on which civil society and democracy drive, as Al Gore once proposed. No, they continuously change and have changed the institutions, meaning and practices of society, democracy and citizenship.

Four of the main research centers in Denmark focusing on democracy and digital technologies, Digital Democracy Centre (DDC), University of Southern Denmark, The Centre for Digital Citizenship (CDC), Roskilde University, SHAPE - Shaping Digital Citizenship, Aarhus University and Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen 

are pleased to collectively announce: 

The 3rd biennial international conference on Democracy & Digital Citizenship.

The four centres view the pressing societal challenges beset by digital technologies, datafication, and artificial intelligence as key research and public concerns. The conference series was established in 2022 with the objective to build and support an inclusive, investigative and interdisciplinary space for developing and addressing the issues raised above. Scholars from the humanities, the social and technical sciences convene in Denmark every other year, to exchange knowledge about and collectively explore the complex and evolving relationships between digital technology, institutional and everyday political practices, and democracy.

Conference format
Two-day conference and a conference dinner at the end of the first day. The main conference takes place from 13:00 on the first day to 17:00 on the second. The conference includes a pre-conference PhD workshop, which takes place on the first day from 9:00-12:00.