On October 12th, the Centre for Digital Citizenship held its official launch event. A number of international experts in the areas digitalization, datafication, algorithms, AI, politics, and governance spoke about their political visions and pressing societal questions surrounding contemporary digital citizenship.  The full program can be seen below.

14:00 - 14:05 Welcome
Chris Peters and Sine N. Just, Co-Directors, Centre for Digital Citizenship

14:05 - 14:15 Opening address
Peter Kjær, Pro-rector, Roskilde University

14:15 - 15:00 Keynote address: “Digital Citizenship and the Politics of Data: Beyond data centrism”
Lina Dencik, Professor in Digital Communication and Society & Co-Founder/Director of the Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University.

15:00 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 16:00 Panel Debate: “Challenges for researching digital citizenship”
Vincent Hendricks, Professor of Formal Philosophy & Director of the Centre for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Julie Uldam, Associate Professor & Principal Investigator of Imagining Digital Power and the Power of Digital Imagination in Business and Society Encounters, Copenhagen Business School.

Claes de Vreese, Distinguished University Professor of AI & Society, University of Amsterdam & Director of the Digital Democracy Centre, University of Southern Denmark

Sine N. Just, Professor of Strategic Communication & Principal Investigator of Algorithms, Data, and Democracy (the ADD-project), Roskilde University