DISTRACT - The Political Economy of Distraction

Research project examining the political economy of attention in digitized Denmark. Read more:

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👀 How do spectators direct their attention during a political debate, and to what extent does the audience synchronize their behavior? Three Distract researchers discussed this topic in Politiken, based on data collected at @Folkemoedet '21 and '22.
🔗: https://t.co/6EtZZ1Nt2o

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“Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms.” New paper by @t_enggaard, @AugustLohse, Morten Axel Pedersen, and @suneman in @SciReports introduces a new way of mapping how words are used differently in different communities🔗 https://t.co/BMLB3hWwdl

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Join us this Friday for a DISTRACT Talk where Rie Kristensen & @SVangkilde will explore core concepts of attentional control and provide insights on ways to strengthen concentration skills and abilities to shift flexibly between tasks. 🔗 to see🕐&🏡https://t.co/38tFe2Q5Uj

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"The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection" co-edited by @Krisalbris was published this week on @Nordicom_GU! Explore chapters covering critiques, reflections, and adaptations to the digital, including one by @Krisalbris & @mhornstrup 🔗https://t.co/WRm8kKVEhA

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See you tomorrow 6th September 11.00-12.00 for a DISTRACT Talk where @GregoryEady will talk about experiments using Large Language Models to understand online discourse. For more info on the talk, as well as time and place 🔗https://t.co/51egH4Ra28

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Join us September 6th for a DISTRACT Talk where @GregoryEady will talk about experiments using Large Language Models to understand online discourse. 🔗 to see 🕦 & 🏡 https://t.co/TWqfrUkZxv

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We are looking for a student assistant to work at DISTRACT, so if you or someone you know want utilize and improve skills in programming, data vizualization, and preparing papers for publication check out this posting and share with someone you know 💻
🔗 https://t.co/5u3V8yHBrz

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Today, the new edited book "The Economic Lives of Platforms: Rethinking the Political Economy of Digital Markets" is published. Among the editors are professor Morten Axel Pedersen and former DISTRACT PhD Eva Iris Otto. @BrisUniPress
🔗 https://t.co/tvIMuGE9TQ

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On June 10th DISTRACT researchers @SofieLaebo and Emilie Munch Gregersen facilitated a workshop introducing the functionalities of EthNote at @GrafoUab

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On Monday Emilie Gregersen and Sofie Læbo visited us from the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) and conducted the workshop “EthNote: a New Digital Tool for Fieldwork Collection, Sharing, and Processing”

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Join us today at 14.15 at UCPH Spring Festival where DISTRACT researchers Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen will explore 'the festival feeling' in conversation with @daviddlassen and Frederik Werner Kronborg

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Does your heart beat in sync with others'? This, Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen will explore in discussion with Associate Dean @daviddlassen and member of student council Frederik Werner Kronborg at UCPH Spring Festival on May 31st
https://t.co/HplNgjnf3H

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In the beginning of May DISTRACT PhD @mhornstrup presented her work on comparing topic modeling algorithms – a machine learning method for finding common topics across a large number of text documents at the @COMPTEXTCONF 2024 held in Amsterdam
🔗https://t.co/jVf0i21DVq

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Does your heart beat in sync with others'? This, Morten Axel Pedersen and Emilie Munch Gregersen will explore in discussion with Associate Dean @daviddlassen and member of student council Frederik Werner Kronborg at UCPH Spring Festival on May 31st
https://t.co/HplNgjnf3H

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In a new paper DISTRACT researchers @Anna_Sapienza @EvaIrisOtto1 & Peter Mehler explores who makes influential open source code within GitHub. Their analysis reveals a hybridization of F/OSS and commodified coding practices at different levels
🔗https://t.co/FiuWwoXwCB

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Unfortunately the talk is cancelled due to illness, we hope to be able to be able to host Signe and Rie another time!

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See you tomorrow May 3rd for a DISTRACT Talk where @SVangkilde and Rie Kristensen will present on "Mastering Meta-Control: From Cognitive Mechanisms to Practical Strategies"

For more info on the talk, as well as time and place
🔗https://t.co/bKzvOKZxj9

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Unfortunately the talk is cancelled due to illness, we hope to be able to be able to host Signe and Rie another time!

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Join us May 3rd for a DISTRACT Talk where Rie Kristensen & Signe Vangkilde will explore core concepts of attentional control and provide insights on ways to strengthen concentration skills and abilities to shift flexibly between tasks.

🔗 to see 🕚 & 🏡https://t.co/bKzvOL058H

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@mariek_vda Hi again! I just added a zoom-link to the event page, so it will be possible to join the talk tomorrow online. Hope to see you there :-)

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@mariek_vda Hi Mariek! I will look in to this and let you know if it is possible! All best, Karoline

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Read @mhornstrup @Krisalbris and @HeloneWill's "CPH Tech Policy Breif 7: How concerned are people about their ‘screen time’?" presented for CPH Tech Policy Committee at Crown Princess Mary Center exploring people's (dis)satisfaction with their screen time🔗https://t.co/k9fkbxXUgr

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DISTRACT postdoc Helene Willadsen and co-authors @ZaccagniSarah @marcopiovesan @ErikWengstrom explore the relationship between cognitive abilities and economic decision making and the extent to which they are correlated in new paper
🔗https://t.co/vUaJyLGsle