Projects
Active projects
The Local Information Landscape in Crisis and War
The preliminary study The Local Information Landscape in Crisis and War explores the potential for new research and innovation on how local libraries and news media can strengthen access to verified...
Strengthened local journalism in crises
The project aims to strengthen the conditions of local journalism in crises and wars; a democratic preparedness. In addition to Media & Democracy, the University of Gothenburg, Blekinge Läns Tidning...
Crossborder Journalism Campus, CJC
The project, which runs between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2024, will develop a model for how students in investigative journalism at different universities in different countries can collaborate...
Future of Democracy
Future of Democracy has been initiated and led by Media & Democracy and AI Sweden, Sweden's center for applied AI innovation. The focus is on the borderland between technology and democracy, with the...
International Youth Think Tank
The project was founded in 2018 and has been part of Lindholmen Science Park and Media & democracy since January 2021. The goal is to promote the democracy movement among 18-24-year-olds in Europe and...
The automation of journalism
Innovation, collaboration and knowledge management in the implementation of AI in news companies.
Finished projects
Young citizens and the quality of news Construals, Emotions and Strategies
The project has an experimental design and investigates how younger news consumers view quality by mixing interviews with eye movement studies and measurement of emotions. The research project is led...
Journalism and AI
Data-driven models and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly being integrated into various industries, and journalism is no exception. Therefore, the Media Institute Fojo at Linnaeus...
Local democracy in a global world
In "Local democracy in a digital world", news media and libraries test experimentally whether and how new forms of collaboration can strengthen local news and knowledge dissemination and the...
Media citizens not exposed to traditional news media
In recent decades, research has indicated that more media users rarely or never consume social journalism. A trend that can have an impact on participation in society and on the media as a pillar of...
The media industry and AI
Data- and AI-driven development is growing in importance and Media & Democracy is leading a national pilot initiative – The Media Industry and AI – together with three media groups and AI Sweden...
Local editor 2.0
How should a journalist in a local editorial office work in an optimal way? How can the media create greater engagement and new forms of local journalism? These were the starting points for the...
Audiovisual Days
2021
Audiovisual Days - formerly Västsvenska filmdagarna - has been organized for nine years and is broadly aimed at actors in moving image and audiovisual media. During two intensive days, participants...
Conflict Management, Dialogue and Reader Engagement in the New Media Landscape
The project is based on challenge-driven innovation and is financed externally by Vinnova. The focus of the first stage is to develop the project's idea and innovation and simultaneously plan how the...
Beta Borås: Younger News Universe for Local Community Journalism and Debate, stage 2
What local community journalism engages 25-35-year-olds and how ready is the target group to pay to consume it? From 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020, stage 2 of the unique and acclaimed research and...
The Digital Media Landscape and the 2018 Local Election
How does the rapidly changing media landscape's affect local and regional elections? This was the subject of a study conducted by Medier & demokrati together with Mid Sweden University and Södertörn...
Beta Borås: Younger News Universe for Local Community Journalism and Debate
What local community journalism attracts and is relevant for 25-35-year-olds? In 2018 a special test editorial staff at Borås Tidning studied the answers to the question.
