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.

Research centres

Publications

Recent publications

Christensen, H. R. & Mauritsen, A. L. (2026). Religion and the Use of Digital Solutions During the Pandemic: A Secondary Analysis of Quantitative Surveys. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10194
Rivera, C. & Christiansen, M. H. (2026). Is Chunking Ability Unitary Across Levels of Linguistic Representation? Cognitive Science, 50(7), Article e70249. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70249
Miu, E., Meyer, M. V. & Riede, F. (2026). Peer cultures in long-term cultural evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 49, Article e242. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X25101970
Iversen, N. T. S., Veldhuis, A., Kenny, S., Smith, C. & Antle, A. N. (2026). From critique to action? Reflections on transformative agency in school-based computational empowerment. In IDC 2026 - Proceedings the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 1219-1224). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3773077.3812173
Basava, K., Bendixen, T., Leonhard, A., George, N. L., Vanhersecke, Z., Omotosho, J., Mather, J. & Muthukrishna, M. (2026). Ecological not social factors explain brain size in cephalopods. iScience, 29(7), Article 116324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.116324
Jensen, A. V. (2026). Cultivating Computational Empowerment in K-9 Education through Critical Hope and Transformative Agency. In IDC 2026 - Proceedings the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 1402-1405). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3773077.3813781
Cox, C. M. M., Værbak, N. & Parsons, C. E. (2026). Associations Between Depression Symptoms and Spatial Restriction in Fathers and Mothers on Parental Leave: A GPS-Tracking Study. Clinical Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026261459934
Biskjaer, M. M., Halskov, K. & de Rooij, A. (2026). Problem–solution co-evolution research in the DRS conference community (2001–2025). In Proceedings of the 2026 Design Research Society Conference (DRS 2026) Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1221
Halstead, I., Major-Smith, D., Heron, J., Golding, J., Iles-Caven, Y., Svob, C. & Joinson, C. (2026). Examining potential causal relationships between religiosity and prosocial values, and prosocial values and mental health, in young adulthood in a UK cohort study. Religion, Brain and Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2026.2684682
Meyer, M., Dadaczynski, K., Messer, M., Kristensen, R. M., Simovska, V., Lagiou, A., Sakellari, E., Amoah, P. A., Lau, S. S. S., Leung, A. Y. M., Bonaccorsi, G., Lorini, C., Velasco, V., Duplaga, M., Leksy, K., Coman, M. A., Sandmeier, A., Lin, C. Y., Van Duong, T. ... Okan, O. (2026). School principals' COVID-19 health literacy and its association with mental health: international findings from 11 countries in Europe and Asia. Health Promotion International, 41(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag098
Revised 05.05.2026