About the school
Anja Bechmann
Professor
School of Communication and Culture - Media Studies
Helsingforsgade 14
building 5335, 247
8200 Aarhus N
Denmark
Mobile: +4551335138
School of Culture and Society - Interacting Minds Centrer
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Mobile: +4551335138
School of Communication and Culture - DATALAB - CENTER FOR DIGITAL SOCIAL RESEARCH
Aabogade 34D
8200 Aarhus N
Denmark
Mobile: +4551335138
About Anja Bechmann
Anja Bechmann is professor at Media Studies and director of DATALAB - Center for Digital Social Research. Her research examines social media communication and collective behavior using large-scale data collection and applied machine learning. Bechmann's field of research are digital sociology, privacy, critical algorithmic and AI studies and digital news studies.
She is board member of the Danish Council for IT Security and ATV's Digital Sages and appointed member of the Academy of Technical Sciences. She acts as a supervisor for MA and PhD theses within the area of digital social research. She is member of several editorial boards, reviewer for international high-ranked journals within her field and has acted as assessment committee member for grant applications, professorships and PhD defenses. Her research has been funded by national and international research councils such as the Danish Council for Independent Research, Swedish Research Council, Danish Agency for Science and Innovation, Horizon 2020 and Aarhus University Research Foundation.
Research areas
- Art, Culture and Media > Digital Media > Internet Digital Sociology
- Society and Politics > Research Methods > Quantitative Methods Computational Social Science
- IT, Computer Science and Mathematics > Work, Organisation and IT > Data protection
- IT, Computer Science and Mathematics > Pervasive Computing > Mobile systems and interfaces
- Engineering > Electrical and Computer Engineering > Machine learning
- Business and economics > Marketing and Strategy > Media industry Internet industry
- Accepted/In press
DATAFICATION IN HMC BETWEEN REPRESENTATION AND PREFERENCES: DESIGNING GENDER NEUTRALITY IN VOICE-CONTROLLED ASSISTANTS
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Eight goals for a human-centric internet
Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Report › Research › peer-review
- Published
'Coordinated inauthentic behaviour' and other online influence operations in social media spaces
Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Conference abstract in proceedings › Research › peer-review
NGI FORWARD: Next Generation Internet Forward
Project: Research
AI and digital sociology
Project: Research
KEYNOTE Social media and collective behavior: a media science perspective
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
A Typology on Facebook Groups: A large-scale case study of measuring network age, network size, gender and topics
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Critical Algorithm Studies: Ethnographic Approaches
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
Thinker in Residence, The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Jens Christian Skou Fellowship
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Aarhus University's Gold Medal
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Det kan spænde ben for retssikkerheden, hvis maskinlæring og dataanalyse bruges uden omtanke
Press/Media: Press / Media
Fake news: Hvad kan man få ud af Facebook, hvis man gerne vil lave propaganda?
Press/Media: Press / Media
Anonymitet på nettet breder sig
Press/Media: Press / Media
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