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…

The research project Seasonal Journalism as Vernacular Phenology will host a 2-day international workshop from Nov. 17 to Nov. 18, 2025 with 25 participants from Denmark, Norway, Austria, Germany, Holland, Poland, India, Pakistan, Iran, Brazil, South Africa, the UK, the US and Australia.

A new research project on online communities on digital platforms has received an ERC Starting Grant. In the project, Assistant Professor Blake Hallinan from Media Studies will examine how content creators build and monetize online communities within the dynamic environment of digital platforms.