Presentations

Transformations of democracy I

Chair: Curd Benjamin Knüpfer

Same Concerns, Different Framings: What Stakeholder Questions to a Traceable AI Chatbot Reveal About a Public Environmental Issue

Gabriele Torma, Aarhus University, Trine Poulsen, Aarhus University, Hilke Reckman, Veridicity, Yoko Luise Dupont, Aarhus University.

Tracing the Semantic Underpinnings of the Kampfbegriff in Digital Information Ecosystems

Curd Knüpfer, Josephine Lukito – University of Southern Denmark

The Concept of Law in the Digital Age and Its Democratic Implications

Bettina Lemann Kristiansen – Aarhus University

Transformations of democracy II

Chair: Peter Danholt

Data Visualisation as Transcription: an STS method for capturing, comparing and critiquing search results

Renée Ridgway – Aarhus University

Politics on Speed

Peter Aagaard – Roskilde University

Chat-Democracy and Info-Discursive Deliberative Auxiliaries

Jan Løhmann Stephensen – Aarhus University

Democracy in a digitally saturated more-than-human world – an adventure to be had…

Peter Danholt – Aarhus University

Political participation, deliberation and digital citizenship I

Chair: Gitte Stald

Between Bans and Bildung: Figures of Youth in High School Policies Governing Students’ Use of Digital Technologies

Ditte Andersen – VIVE

Democratic deliberation starts at the dinner table: Young Danes and relatable political discussions in their ‘safe gardens’

Gitte Stald – IT University of Copenhagen

Leave No One Behind: Using Citizen-Generated Data to Advance Democracy and Reframe Datafication

Jess Reia – University of Virginia

Sustainability and Scalability in Digital Democracy: A Comparative Study of Three E-participation Platforms

Anastasiia Blazhko, Summer Boucher-Robinson, Nadim Mostak Sany, Victor Werimo, Salsabil Yakoubi, Joep Crompvoets, Laurien Coenen – KU Leuven

Political participation, deliberation and digital citizenship II

Chair: Christoph Raestch

Imagined Citizen – Who are we Thinking About in the Digital City?

Sejal Chandak – University of the West of England

Journalism, data and democracy

Chair: Christoph Raestch

Audience Pathways of Belonging and Critique in Non-Traditional News Use

Leif H. Pedersen, Eva Mayerhöffer – Roskilde University

Mainstreaming journalistic OSINT/V use as a public interest technology across layers of supply (design), experimentation (data) and popularisation (delivery)

Will Fee, Christoph Raetzsch – Aarhus University

Platform governance, speech and regulation

Chair: Hanna Matila

Building a European Public Sphere? Stakeholder debates on a European Streaming Platform for public service media

Gentiana Ramadani – University of Vienna, Heidi Keinonen – Independent researcher and founder Medialogi Ltd.

Democracy or technocracy? Examining the digitalization of urban planning in Finland

Hanna Mattila – University of Turku, Pilvi Nummi – Aalto University, Eveliina Harsia-Mikkola – Aalto University

How does digital governance of social media platforms influence the public in India and the United Kingdom?

Kurt Seher

When conflict becomes governance: Countergovernance and digital democracy in Brazil

Carine Roos – University of Sheffield

Political communication, elections and campaigning I

Chair: Maja Sonne

When Voting Advice Becomes Conversational: A Field Study of Human-AI Interaction During an Election

Emil Bakkensen Johansen, Josephine Lukito – University of Southern Denmark

Facebook-based political engagement in Bangladesh

Zakaria Khan – Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Political Sharenting on Instagram: Family Imagery, Platformized Visibility, and Boundary Work among Danish Politicians

Maja Sonne Damkjær, Janne Nielsen – Aarhus University

Political communication, elections and campaigning II

Chair: Jakob Linaa

Political issue spaces, mapping the 2026 Danish Parliamentary Election

Johan Irving Søltoft, Lasse Uhrskov Kristensen & Daniel Nordstrand Frantzen

From collective to connective action? – A study of online participation in Danish elections across 25 years

Jakob Linaa Jensen – Aarhus University

Venerable Representation: AI-Generated Synthetic Media in the 2024 Elections in India and Pakistan

Umer Jan, Jamie Ranger, Estariol De La Paz – Alliance University, India; Hasso-Plattner Institute, Germany

Large Language Models (LLMs) as Agents for Augmented Democracy

Jairo Gudiño – University of Toulouse

Humour, culture and democratic publics

Chair: Julia Fleischhack

The Civic Work of Humour: Online Political Satire as a Space of Participation, Meaning-Making, and Action

Nina Cingerová, Katarína Motyková – Comenius University Bratislava

Outwitting the adversary – Studying humorous countertactics in a not so funny context at a time of democratic erosion

Julia Fleischhack – Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

The Democratizing Potential of Cabaret Humor on YouTube

Anna Sámelová – Comenius University Bratislava

Misinformation, trust and information disorder I

Chair: Lynge Asbjørn Møller

Digital News (Non-)use of Ukrainian Diaspora facing Disinformation during War

Arul Chib – Erasmus University Rotterdam, Mohammad Javad Imani – Erasmus University Rotterdam, Noemi Mena Montes – Radboud University

The Liar’s Dividend and Ambient Skepticism: Deepfakes and Democratic Communication

Elizabeth Ashley Fox-Jensen, Sue-Ellen Njekwa Ryberg – Malmö University

Navigating Uncertainty: The Effects of Alarmist Discourse on Journalists’ Abilities to Detect AI-Generated Content

Lynge Asbjørn Møller, Emil Bakkesen Johansen, Claes de Vreese – University of Southern Denmark

Truth, beliefs, and facts in the alleged post-truth era: The epistemology of politically alienated citizens in Germany

Pietro Nickl, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Misinformation, trust and information disorder II

Chair: Morgan Wack

Inside partisan environments: The influence of congruence in news environments on veracity judgments and partisan attitudes

Ilse L. Pit, Mubashir Sultan, Lisa Oswald, Alan Tump, & Ralf Kurvers

Crowd-Based Advisors Against Misinformation: Accuracy, Uptake, and Citizen Choice Across Four Democracies

Mubashir Sultan – Max Planck Institute for Human Development

When Governments Use AI: Selective decline in trustworthiness and algorithmic nimbyism

Daniel Juhász Vigild, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Laust Hvas Mortensen and Vedran Sekara

Motivated Reasoning Models: How LLMs and Search Engines Differentially Enable Confirmatory Evidence Collection

Morgan Wack, Eva-Maria Vogel, Christian Pipal

The Dynamics of Distrust in Media and Politics: Gradual Erosion and Critical Turning Points in Germany

Carolin-Theresa Ziemer – Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Identity, polarization & social conflict I

Chair: Peter Danholt

Do citizens engage in content moderation of toxic speech against historically marginalized groups? Evidence from four western democracies

Jesper Sommer Rasmussen, Aarhus University

Media Representations of Climate Advocates: Measuring Bias in News Coverage

Arianna Pera, Clara Vandeweert – Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen

Is the manosphere leaking? Exploring the everyday manosphere among Danish male adolescents

Jakob Kleofas – Aarhus University

Identity, polarization & social conflict II

Chair: Yuru Li

Weaponising “Cognitive Warfare”: Partisan Framing and Polarisation in Taiwan’s Information Environment

Elena Yi-Ching Ho - Queensland University of Technology

Algorithmic Amplification and Emotional Governance: AI-Generated Political Personas on TikTok

Dechun Zhang – University of Copenhagen, Yuru Li – University of Bremen

The Content Characteristics and Opportunity Structures of Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech in Danish Facebook Comments

Anne Clausen – University of Southern Denmark

AI governance, algorithms and democratic futures

Chair: Josephine Lukito

The Technostructural Democratic Affordances of Decentralised Social Media: Mastodon and Bluesky in the EU push towards digital sovereignty

Joan Pla Vivoles – Østfold University College

Aligning Sovereign Foundation Models through Constitutional AI

Stine Lyngsø Beltoft, Jonas Vistrup, Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke Poech – University of Southern Denmark

From Token Ownership to Participation: Rethinking DAO Governance for Public-Interest Infrastructure

Razali Samsudin – Manifest Studio Collective, Gareth Fakhry – Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand

Mapping Notions of Democratic Debate Online in Denmark: Conceptualisations, Affordances, and Deficits

Ulrikke D. Sørensen – Aalborg University

Digital government, welfare and public administration I

Chair: Iben Have

Infrastructures of Care in the Digital Welfare State

Ina Bækgaard – DTU Management and Aarhus Municipality

Developing and implementing trustworthy AI and robotics solutions in City of Aarhus

Morten Falbe-Hansen – Aarhus City Lab

Voicing the state: Synthetic voices in Danish public e-governance

Iben Have – Aarhus University

Digital government, welfare and public administration II

Chair: Irina Papazu

Digital Welfare States and the Transformation of Administrative Justice – a Socio-Legal perspective

Bettina Lemann Kristiansen – Aarhus University

From discretion to dependence: the Palantirization of the Danish police

Vasilis Galis, Irina Papazu – IT-University of Copenhagen

Digital Surveillance and the Reconfiguration of Democracy in Hybrid Regime

Noluthando Khumalo