Digital Media Lab

04/06/2026

We were just announced as a runner up to the Research Environment of the Year 2026 award 💜 💚 💛

Congrats to all of us - let's keep it up! 🫶

Thanks to The Young Academy under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters for insisting on the importance of good work environments for young researchers.

Thanks to our two young lab members Frederik and Mark for nominating us.

And congrats to this year's winner, the Technology and Business Studies Division at DTU Management, and also to the other runner up from Aarhus Universitet.

👏 RUC-laboratorie er runner up til Årets Forskningsmiljø hos Det Unge Akademi

Hvert år hylder Det Unge Akademi under Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab gode forskningsmiljøer, og i år bliver Digital Media Lab hædret. Laboratoriet er runner up til prisen for Årets Forskningsmiljø 2026, hvilket svarer til en delt andenplads.

Laboratoriet blev indstillet til prisen af adjunkt Mark Friis Hau og postdoc Frederik Weber Henriksen, der fik overrakt hædersbeviset ved Det Unge Akademis sommerfest i Carlsberg Akademi.

"At skabe et kollektivt og kreativt miljø er et af vores vigtigste mål, så det er fantastisk at blive indstillet til netop denne pris af vores egne lab-medlemmer. Når vi så endda udnævnes til runner up, er det meget motiverende," siger Andreas Birkbak, der er Lab Director for Digital Media Lab og lektor på Institut for Kommunikation og Humanistisk Videnskab.

👉 Læs hele nyheden på Roskilde Universitet: https://ruc.dk/nyheder/ruclaboratorie-er-runner-til-aarets-forskningsmiljoe-hos-det-unge-akademi

📸 Frederik Weber Henriksen (tv.) og Mark Friis Hau modtog beviset på, at Digital Media Lab er runner up til Årets Forskningsmiljø. Foto: Andreas Birkbak

30/04/2026

📣 New Lab Report 📣

How did Danish alternative media cover the 2026 Danish general elections? 🤔

In this lab report, we analyse 928 articles from 14 different alternative news outlets. 🔎

The report suggests that Danish alternative media presented different versions of the election campaign. Left-leaning outlets mainly focused on welfare, labour and parliamentary power, while right-leaning outlets more often connected the election to borders, culture, media power and national direction. Furthermore, alternative media help determine the emotional and thematic terrain on which parts of the electorate encounter the election. They do not just report the campaign; they sort it, sharpen it and give it political meaning for distinct publics. 🗳️

Link to full PDF in comments ⬇️

The report comes out of the project funded by Carlsbergfondet 🙏 and is based on data from the hosted in the lab.