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Study: Social media platforms fail to remove illegal hate speech

social media Computer Science Department Digital Design Department Research algorithms ethics

3 July, 2024

Preliminary results from an EU-supported project shows that most reported hate speech on social media is either not removed or left unanswered. Researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen are a part of the study and responsible for collecting and analysing the data on hate speech in Denmark.

How good are we at navigating the digital stream of information?

social media Gitte Stald Digital Design Department democracy digitization media

25 September, 2023

A new project sets out to gauge the level of media literacy in the Nordic countries, and one of the experts tasked with qualifying the project survey is Associate Professor Gitte Stald from IT University of Copenhagen’s Digital Design department.

Do deepfake videos challenge the integrity of online information?

social media Aske Mottelson Digital Design Department Research artificial intelligence algorithms awards democracy

7 March, 2023

Deepfakes – highly realistic synthetic audio-video content depicting actual individuals – may potentially increase the dissemination of disinformation online, but research on the phenomenon and how users are affected is sparse. A new research project spearheaded by the IT University’s Human-Centered Data Science research group tackles the issue.

ITU project to monitor illegal hate speech on social media platforms

social media Leon Derczynski Computer Science Department ethics

27 February, 2023

Social media platforms are required by law to remove illegal content – such as hate speech – but in Denmark, monitoring of the platforms ceased in 2018. A new ITU lead project aims to monitor platforms for instances of hate speech in Danish and report to the EU.

ITU launches new Center for Digital Play

social media Anders Sundnes Løvlie Hanna Elina Wirman Lisbeth Klastrup Miguel Sicart Paolo Burelli About ITU Digital Design Department artificial intelligence computer games design

24 October, 2022

The new Center for Digital Play at the IT University of Copenhagen will serve as base for research in computer games, creative AI, design, and digital culture.

ITU researcher secures prestigious fellowship to empower citizen cooperation

social media Luca Maria Aiello Computer Science Department Research algorithms Climate IT grants green IT

7 December, 2021

Associate Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen, Luca Maria Aiello, has won the Carlsberg Foundation’s prestigious Young Researcher Fellowship for a project that aims to facilitate citizen coordination in the face of global challenges such as climate change.

Professor profile: We need a better understanding of information we share online

social media Louise Barkhuus Computer Science Department data storage digitization ethics

5 October, 2021

On Thursday, October 14, Professor of Computer Science at ITU, Louise Barkhuus, will present her inaugural lecture and take a closer look at the personal data we share online, how developers can assuage users’ fears, and what the digital future holds.

New technology detects and measures online hate against women

social media Leon Derczynski Computer Science Department Research algorithms

27 July, 2021

ITU researchers have completed a large-scale collection, classification, and categorization of misogyny in Danish social media. It is a potential gamechanger in the fight against abusive online behaviour.

ITU bachelor's system to identify informative Corona tweets in top rank

social media Computer Science Department Education artificial intelligence

30 September, 2020

Competing with academics and IT professionals from all over the world, Anders Giovanni Møller shared first place in developing a system to identify Corona-related tweets.

New Study: User-based surveillance is not effective against fake-news

social media Digital Design Department Research Michele Coscia

6 July, 2020

The defence against fake news, to a large extent, relies on the social media users identifying and "flagging" suspicious stories, but are we, the users, really capable of doing that? No, a new study concludes.

Study shows correlation between the number of tweets on mental health issues and urgent crisis referrals

social media Leon Derczynski Computer Science Department health

11 February, 2020

As a part of a UK research group, Assistant Professor Leon Derczynski, conducted a study that revealed a correlation between increases in the number of urgent mental health-related crisis referred to two mental healthcare providers in London on days and a high number of tweets mentioning depression and schizophrenia. The study has been published in one of the world's leading science journals, Nature's Scientific Reports.

What can we learn from the Facebook data scandal?

social media Business IT Department Digital Design Department privacy Aske Kammer Brit Ross Winthereik Irina Shklovski

7 May, 2018

The Cambridge Analytica scandal where data from 87 million Facebook users was abused has raised concerns and debate about the implications of sharing personal data with global tech companies. Here, three ITU researchers reflect on what we can learn from the scandal.

New social media can give power back to the users

social media Business IT Department Research Blockchain Raffaele Ciriello

13 February, 2018

New blockchain-based social media are gaining ground and challenging established platforms, such as Facebook, for example by paying their users in crypto currency for producing, sharing and liking content. These new media have the potential to give back control to the users, but according to Raffaele Ciriello, who is doing research on the topic, they also raise new ethical and legal issues.

New research project to investigate refugees’ use of IT

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24 October, 2017

The Velux Foundations has granted the research project Diginauts with DKK six million to investigate how refugees use their mobile phones and other digital devices to navigate geographically and socially during their travel through Europe.

New survey: The notion of echo chambers on Facebook is exaggerated

social media Digital Design Department Research Luca Rossi democracy

5 September, 2017

A new survey by the research group DECIDIS at the IT University of Copenhagen challenges the notion that social media make users with different political positions invisible to each other. Nearly a third of Danes sometimes change their opinion as a result of a political discussion on Facebook.

Internet and social media played a key role in the Danish election 2015

social media Research democracy Sander Schwartz Events

5 September, 2016

Danes turn to the web and social media for information about the candidates and test their own political views online, shows a new report with figures from the general election in 2015.

Danes are reluctant to discuss politics on Facebook

social media Sander Schwartz Luca Rossi Research

15 June, 2016

Although social media has given us new opportunities to participate in the public debate, most Danes are hesitant to discuss politics with strangers online. When they do occur, however, Facebook debates can change political opinions, shows a new report from the IT University of Copenhagen.

Social sign language dictionary gives deaf students new opportunities

social media Education innovation startups

11 May, 2016

Troels Madsen has created Wign, an online sign language dictionary where deaf people can share and search for signs. This is especially useful in higher education, where many technical terms do not have an official sign.

Online privacy conference draws a full house

social media privacy

31 March, 2016

Auditorium 1 was filled to capacity during ITU’s first Crypto Conference on Wednesday, which featured presentations by a string of experts on digital surveillance and privacy.

Social media can save lives when disaster strikes

social media Research

16 February, 2016

Twitter, Facebook and other social media have created new opportunities to inform and respond when disaster strikes. In her PhD project at the IT University of Copenhagen, Alivelu Mukkamala looks into how data from social media can be used to improve disaster response.

ITU startups: Tonsser

social media Entrepreneurship startups

15 February, 2014

Tonsser is an ambitious football related community - a lifelike version of the classic Football Manager game so to speak - and the plan is to take over the world.

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