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In their fourth semester of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Digital Design at Aarhus University, Nina Isis Kinch Bolton, Sofie Lundby Andersen and Sofie Fürsterling Mønster were working on an assignment centred on surveillance and care. This was where the idea for a heart-shaped safety keyring connected to an app first emerged. Since then, the…

How can music be used to attract and scare people away from specific locations? And how is a traditional way of being a woman made attractive using tradwife rhetoric on Instagram? These are the topics of two out of a total of six master's theses that recent graduates from the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University will present at…

For three days in August, students from different academic backgrounds at Aarhus University gathered at Kitchen to develop solutions to climate challenges using data from space. Kajsa Holm Bic, a Digital Design student at the Department of Communication and Culture, took part in the hackathon. She helped ensure that a user-centred perspective was…

Over the weekend, Halfdan Nordahl Fundal and his research colleagues received the news that their paper has been accepted as a Main Conference Paper at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), which will be held in Budapest in late October. The paper examines turn-based collaborative storytelling across three matched…

Five research projects at the School of Communication and Culture have recently been awarded grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The projects span a wide academic spectrum, exploring everything from how contemporary art can help us comprehend climate change to how cultural ideals of beauty dictate material waste. Additional research will…

Minister for Children Jakob Mark and Minister for Culture Zenia Stampe have drawn inspiration from a method for promoting children's language development and interest in reading, co-developed by Professor Dorthe Bleses. The ministers have just presented a new initiative aimed at creating positive experiences with books and reading aloud for the…

In the public engagement project Stemmeboxen (The Voice Box), Associate Professor of Media Studies at Aarhus University, Iben Have, explores how citizens experience the synthetic voices used by public authorities to read aloud content on websites such as borger.dk and the Danish Police website. A new podcast introduces listeners to some of the…

A research project exploring the Digital Product Passport (DPP) has secured new funding to enter its second phase. The Digital Product Passport is part of upcoming EU legislation that will gradually become mandatory for a wide range of products sold across Europe. By scanning a QR code or similar digital identifier, consumers will be able to access…

Professor of children's literature Nina Christensen from the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University has been awarded funding from VELUX FONDEN for a new research project exploring how reading communities can support children in vulnerable situations. The project, "Shared Stories: Literary Communities in Libraries as a Path to…

Researchers from across Aarhus University are collaborating with colleagues and partners in several African countries. Last week, they came together at the Africa Collaboration conference at AU to share experiences and discuss future partnerships. One of the projects presented explores how local communities in Namibia can help shape technologies…