AI, Politics, and Society
“Decoding AI”: what artificial intelligence is and is not, its biases and harms, and how it reshapes democracy, media, work, inequality and climate — ending with regulation, governance and global power.
- Spring 2026
Teaching
I teach at the intersection of politics, political communication and computational methods: hands-on seminars in R on text-as-data and data science, and seminars on emotions, digital media and artificial intelligence in politics. My teaching was recognised with the Innovation in Teaching Political Science Award (Aarhus University, 2023).
Courses by year
- Computational methods
- Substantive seminars
- one dot per term — hover for details, click a course name to jump to it
Courses
Emotions in Politics and Political Communication
From political psychology to public discourse: how emotions shape information processing, attitudes and mobilisation — and how they fuel polarisation, populism and radical politics.
- Autumn 2025
Digital Political Communication
Political communication in the digital age: how political actors communicate online, data-driven campaigning, dis- and misinformation, algorithmic bias, protest, hostility, polarisation and the far right on social media.
- Spring 2025
Digital Political Communication & Digital Journalism
A version for journalism students: how politicians and journalists adapt to the digital media environment, and how morality, emotions, polarisation and violence play out on online platforms.
- Spring 2025
- Spring 2026
Computational Text Analysis
Hands-on text-as-data in R: web scraping, dictionaries, topic models, supervised machine learning and validation, word embeddings, transformers and large language models — built around students’ own projects.
- Spring 2022
- Spring 2024
- Summer 2025
Political Data Science
Data science for political questions, in R: wrangling and visualisation, working with text, collecting data from the web and APIs, modelling, network data and the ethics of data-driven decision making. Co-taught with Jesper Rasmussen.
- Spring 2024
- Autumn 2024
- Autumn 2025
- Spring 2026
Public Opinion & Media
How public opinion forms and changes, and the role of news and social media in shaping it.
- Winter 2023
Introduction to Programming in R
A short workshop series for getting started with R and RStudio: from first lines of code to tidy data and plots.
- Spring 2024
- Spring 2025
Emotions in Politics and Political Communication
An introduction to the role of emotions in political behaviour and political communication.
- Winter 2021
Computational Text Analysis
A workshop introducing doctoral researchers to computational text analysis for the social sciences.
- Winter 2020