How do the digital platforms used by children and young adults shape their language, shared culture, and democratic participation? What possibilities do these media afford for children to communicate and engage in society, and what voices do they silence? How can we secure children’s right to free expression while also protecting them from harm? The panel brings together a variety of perspectives on children’s digital media, combining insights from linguistics, media studies, the humanities, and the industry.

Speakers:

Chair: Stine Liv Johansen, Associate Professor of Children’s Literature, Aarhus University
Children as digital media users: A matter of participation and protection  

Alexandra Evans, Head of Child Safety Public Policy Europe, TikTok

Tina Thode Hougaard, Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies, Aarhus University
Information requests and the construction of affiliative responses by social media managers  

Jannis Androutsopoulos, Professor of Media Linguistics, Hamburg University
Heritage language learning in a digital age: Implications from research on transnational familiy communication

Panelet fremlægger resultaterne fra fire storstilede internationale undersøgelse af studerendes kompetencer, som DPU har været med til at foretage: International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS), Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), og Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Paneldeltagerne vil diskutere, hvad disse undersøgelser kan fortælle os om de danske elevers demokratiske værdier og digitale færdigheder og sammenhængen til deres faglige tilegnelse.

Speakers:

Chair: Christian Christrup Kjeldsen, Deputy Head of Department for Research, Danish School of Education
Danske elevers resultater i matematik i relation til digitale læremidler   

Jeppe Bundsgaard, Professor of Educational Theory, Danish School of Education
Danske elevers computer- og informationskompetence  

Jonas Lieberkind, Associate Professor of Educational Sociology, Danish School of Education
Danske 8. klassers politiske dannelse i en digitaliseret tidsalder  

Simon Skov Fougt, Associate Professor of Educational Theory, Danish School of Education
Danske elevers online læsefærdigheder   

Katja Neubert, Academic Administrator, Danish School of Education
Danske elevers online læsefærdigheder   

Rune Müller Kristensen, Assistant Professor of Educational Sociology, Danish School of Education
Danske elevers resultater i matematik i relation til digitale læremidler   

Speakers:

Chair: Ole Sejer Iversen, Professor, Center for Computational Thinking and Design, Aarhus University
Er Folkets Skole slap i koderne?

Stefan Hermann, Rector, University College Copenhagen
Vi skal af med den megen bullshit omkring teknologiforståelse og digitalisering 

Lene Tanggaard, Professor of Psychology, Aalborg University
Få nu pædagogikken ind på førersædet i debatten om digitalisering i skolen!

Social media are an increasingly essential tool for political campaigns: politicians use them to connect with voters, target their message, and project the public image they wish to be associated with. But social media is still a new field for political discourse, allowing for both innovative experiments and exploitative manipulation. Further, the politicians’ freedom to express themselves even on their private accounts may be more limited than it seems. And what does this reliance on privately owned media sites mean for the future of democracy? 

Speakers:
Chair: Lasse Lindekilde, Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University

Helene Helboe Pedersen, Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University
Party soldiers on personal platforms? Legislators’ use of social media  

Jakob Linaa Jensen, Associate Professor in Media Studies and Journalism, Aarhus University
From novel to normal? Citizens’ use of social media in four Danish election campaigns 2007–2019  

Axel Bruns, Professor of Digital Media Research, Queensland University of Technology
Rogue political communication in the digital age: Exploiting the novelty of digital campaigning  

Rosa Lund, MP for the Red-Green Alliance in the Danish Parliament
Social media: The personal, the political, and the fight against hateful speech    

Den demokratiske offentlighed er blevet digital, og det har både fordele og ulemper. De nye datastrømme giver os mulighed for at foretage kvalificerede beslutninger og udvide den politiske debat, men vi må også leve med digitale dobbeltgængere, der handler og behandles på vores vegne – uden at vi altid kan kontrollere dem. For at forstå den nye sociale virkelighed, kan det være nyttigt at se tilbage på den sidste store medierevolution: trykpressens indførsel førte kontroverser med sig, som har paralleller til debatterne om sociale medier og som vi kan bruge til at begribe deres indflydelse på vores samfund. Panelet trækker historiske og informationsvidenskabelige spor for at forstå den demokratiske offentlighed i en tid, hvor data og digital kommunikation er blevet en del af os og af vores møde med hinanden.

Speakers:

Chair: Ejvind Hansen, Senior Associate Professor of Political Science, Danish School of Media and Journalism

Gorm Harste, Associate Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University
Et historisk perspektiv på den digitale revolution i samfundsmæssig kommunikation  

Michael Böss, Professor Emeritus of History and Social Sciences, Aarhus University
Politisk polarisering, sociale medier og massernes genkomst i sociologi  

Peter Lauritsen, Professor MSO of Information Science, Aarhus University 
Det databaserede demokrati

Karen Melchior, MEP for Denmark in the European Parliament
Europas digitale fremtid i støbeskeen