School of Communication and Culture

Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

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Research

Department of Digital Design and Information Studies offers a wide range of humanistic approaches to the study of the relationship between humans and information technology, from the granular analysis of the agency of code to the ways in which information technology challenges and transforms the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of modern society.

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Publications

Recent publications

Burford, J., Nuriler, H., Elliot, D. L., Meesters, P., Alves, P. & Martinussen, M. (2026). Emotion and Affect in Doctoral Education: A Dialogue Across Sociological and Psychological Perspectives. In E. Löfström, I. V. D. Weijden, K. Inouye & S. S. E. Bengtsen (Eds.), Transitions in Researcher Education and Careers (pp. 49-68). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003785262-4
Holt, A. E. (2026). What Facebook Users Flag as False News: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of User-Reported Links. Digital Journalism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2703607
Nielsen, A. K. S. (2026). At-risk subjects or casual content creators? User and expert perspectives on direct-to-consumer genetic testing and genetic identity work on YouTube. Popular Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2026.2709141
Lysgaard, J. A. (2026). On Love, Sustainability Education and the Importance of Impossible Ideals. In S. Windsor, O. Franck & D. Sanders (Eds.), Paradise Lost? Love and Care: Narratives for and in Sustainability Education (pp. 25-43). Springer Science+Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-11690-1_3
Riede, F. (2026). The colour of magic: Exotic raw materials, prospecting, and the Late Palaeolithic of northern Europe. In S. Krüger & D. Groß (Eds.), Between Thy and Tübingen: Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer worlds in transition : Studies in honour of Berit V. Eriksen (pp. 102-114). sidestone press academics. https://doi.org/10.59641/l6o2i3j4k5
Job, X., Andersen, L. M., Vinding, M. C., Cemeljic, N., Lundqvist, D. & Kilteni, K. (2026). Motor Prediction Reduces Beta-Band Power and Enhances Cerebellar-Somatosensory Connectivity before Self-Touch to Enable Its Attenuation. Journal of Neuroscience, 46(32), Article e1553252026. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1553-25.2026
Frandsen, K. (2026). Nordic Broadcasters in the Eye of a Storm. In Sportswashing: Global Perspectives on the Politics of Promotion (pp. 43-56). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-17292-1_4
Pardue, D. (2026). Voice. Anthropology and Humanism, 51(2), Article e70121. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70121
Welz, C. (2010). Vertrauen und Versuchung. Mohr Siebeck. Religion in Philosophy and Theology Vol. 51 https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-167820-2
Kazakov, V. & Magnúsdóttir, R. (2026). International Sports Ambassadors: Mapping the Ecology of Sports Diplomacy Actors in Cases of Russia and Iceland. In J. S. Rofe, L. S. Krasnoff, T. Zintz, R. Parrish & H. Deol (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sports Diplomacy (pp. 265-278). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032696829-28
Revised 05.05.2026