At the Digital Democracy Centre (DDC), our research is driven by a commitment to understanding the complex intersections between digital technologies and societies. We have entered an era where digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) proliferate. Digital technologies and AI can augment or even replace human decision-making. This may contribute to the public good but also disrupt and threaten it. The impact of data, digitalization, and AI on media and politics affect the very core of democracy. The DDC aims to develop a new socio-technological, interdisciplinary approach combining theory and methods from the social sciences and computer science, to study and potentially help mitigate the ways these novel developments are re-shaping democratic societies.
Our research is centred around four core research themes, which are explained in further detail here:
1) Digital Democratic Integrity