Forskning på Det Humanistiske Fakultet

The idea of using machinery in education is about a century old, and it is currently subject of intense discussion. In what ways do various technologies - such as software platforms, robots, and novel use of data - foster or hinder the flourishing of educational values and practices?

With a general interest in social change occasioned by uses and implementations of digital technologies, this cluster focuses on empirically comparing social activities in on-line activities with equivalent social face-to-face interactions, e.g. shopping groceries or electronic products.

Projektet Etik og Algoritmer i Sundhedsvæsenet (EAS) undersøger de etiske problematikker der er involveret i at genbruge patienters data i screenings- og beslutningsstøtte-algoritmer indenfor sundhedsvæsenet. 

The field of Human Food Interaction is growing, in direct response to how technology is increasingly permeating human life.
This research stream looks at ways that food as socio-technologically entangled material can be leveraged to understand human behavior and support change.

Projektet har til formål at udvikle humanistiske teorier og metoder til at forstå, hvordan samspillet mellem medier og medicinske behandlinger påvirker og skaber nye opfattelser af køn, krop, alder, sundhed og seksualitet.

Futures of Migration, Algorithms and migration movements, border studies, migration and surveillance technologies, securization and technology, data and migration, representation of migration technologies in literature, art, and culture.

Towards balance and boundaries in public discourse: expressing and perceiving online hate speech. 

Hate speech has become an increasing problem for social media platforms and there is a need for more research, especially in relation to languages other than English

Research on the philosophy and history of technology within a classical humanities framework. Concretely working on maritime literature and culture, part of which deals with maritime technologies.

Ulighed i sundhed er et vidtrækkende og vedvarende problem, som dækker over en række fænomener, bl.a. ulige adgang til sundhedsydelser, forskellige sociale mulighedsbetingelser og sociale determinanter for sundhed, samt (indirekte) diskrimination af visse sociale grupper i sundhedssektoren.

The idea of a socio-technical imaginary is based on the concept of co-production, which holds that knowledge/ideas and materiality/technological artefacts are both a product of and constitutive of social practices.

Et usædvanligt forskningsprojekt mellem en overlæge og to filosoffer skal sætte fokus på de etiske spørgsmål, som ambulancelæger bør stille sig, når de er rykket ud til en livløs person. 

Endocrine Economies er et kulturvidenskabeligt projekt, der følger og analyserer kønshormoner som agenter i forhold til aktuelle problemstillinger, hvor bekymringer, forhåbninger og forventninger brydes, samtidig med, at nye regler bliver formuleret.

Explorations into how contemporary media – such as cinema, television series, and web content – increasingly adopts to and gets inspired by computer games.

Consumer electronics has developed into being a central category of design. Products such as smartphones, activity trackers and mobile smart speakers have set new standards for high functionality and have dramatically changed patterns of habits and behavior.

Det tværfaglige SDU-projekt ”Ældrevelfærd og alkohol – en vanskelig cocktail” bidrager til udviklingen af retningslinjer for omgangen med alkohol i samarbejde med velfærdsforvaltningen og plejepersonale i Vejle Kommune. 

Ice Age projektet har til formål at udvikle tværfaglige humanistiske teorier og metoder til at forstå fryseteknologiernes menneskelige, etiske, juridiske samt kulturelle forandringer og betydninger. 

Formålet med DEMENS ID er at støtte borgere med demens og deres familier i at mestre etiske dilemmaer i livet med demens.

Big data, technologies of surveillance, drones, and predictive algorithms shape and impact our self-understanding as human subjects and communities.

Interactional perspectives on technology focus on ‘the user’ and emphasize how people make sense of (and with) technology-in-use.