Are the voices of public authorities perceived as trustworthy or alienating? The public engagement project Stemmeboxen critically examines the use of text-to-speech technology and the synthetic voices used by public authorities in digital citizen services.

New rules on the labelling of AI-generated content will enter into force on 2 August 2026. A working group established by the European Commission, chaired by Anja Bechmann, professor of Media Studies at Aarhus University, is developing a code of conduct to help content producers comply with the legislation.

Users of right- and left-wing alternative news media in Denmark relate differently to established news media. This is shown in a new study from Media Studies and Journalism at Aarhus University. Users of left-wing alternative news media tend in particular to have lower trust in news outlets that are, or are perceived to be, right-leaning, whereas users of right-wing alternative news media have…

The project aims to develop and test a new theoretical framework for understanding the soft power of sports mega-events in a context of power dynamics between the co-hosts

The Carlsberg Foundation has recently awarded a total of 11.5 million DKK to five research projects at the Department of Communication and Culture. These projects cover a wide range of topics, including Danish dialect collections, how humans and AI collaboratively create hidden patterns, regional relationships shaped by Danish colonialism, the afterlife of environmental narratives, and the…