Published 6 December 2024 Phenomena such as disinformation and propaganda have been widely studied across various academic disciplines, each offering unique perspectives on their causes, mechanisms, and effects. These disciplines include, for instance, political science, media & communication studies, philosophy, computer science, and military science. Despite the breadth of research, cognitive sc

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/exploitation-psychological-processes-information-influence-operations-insights-cognitive-science - 2025-05-07

Published 24 January 2025 Elsa Hedling is an affiliated researcher at the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University, where she contributes to advance research on disinformation and hybrid threats. Elsa Hedling is an Associate Professor (Docent) in Political Science and an Associate Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature. Her research focuse

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/researcher-profile-elsa-hedling - 2025-05-07

Published 30 January 2025 In today’s complex security environment, the intelligence community must address dynamic hybrid threats through coordinated efforts that span multiple sectors. In a recently published article, Swedish Defence University and PDRI researchers emphasise the critical interaction between intelligence analysis, communication, and societal resilience ("Hybrid Threats and the Int

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/critical-interaction-intelligence-analysis-communication-and-societal-resilience - 2025-05-07

Published 7 February 2025 Two new reports have been presented as part of the EU Horizon project ADAC.io, coordinated by the Psychological Defence Research Institute. They aim to support the defender community in strengthening capabilities and methodologies related to the ongoing work of attributing information influence operations.The first report, "A Framework for Attribution of Information Influ

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/attribution-information-influence-operations - 2025-05-07

Published 14 March 2025 Affiliated with the Psychological Defence Research Institute, Rolf Fredheim explores the use of AI to detect harmful and illegal content on social media. Rolf builds systems to detect and measure harmful and illegal content on social media. This work presents distinct challenges: social media data is quickly removed from platforms, presented in visual formats, and often app

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/researcher-profile-rolf-fredheim - 2025-05-07

Published 14 March 2025 Hedvig Ördén of PDRI attended the panel 'The Societal Turn in Intelligence Practices: The Case of Scandinavia'. She presented a paper which explores the changing conditions for informal actors in intelligence oversight, focusing on Swedish journalists. The research team from the Psychological Defence Research Institute was well represented at the 66th annual convention of t

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/pdri-isa-chicago - 2025-05-07

Published 28 April 2025 Elsa Hedling, affiliated with PDRI, recently published a report on social identities and democratic vulnerabilities. The report, Social identities and democratic vulnerabilities: Learning from examples of targeted disinformation, is published by the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE). It discusses the sensitive relationship between soci

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/social-identities-and-democratic-vulnerabilities-learning-examples-targeted-disinformation - 2025-05-07

Published 8 January 2025 October 25, 2023HAIDI participated in the CASE dayCASE (Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments) is a research centre at Lund University that works to develop knowledge on ageing and health. Helena Sandberg and Fredrika Thelandersson participated in their annual popular scientific conference to talk about the ongoing research within HAIDI.October 11, 2023HAIDI partic

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-research-activities-2022-2023 - 2025-05-07

Published 15 January 2025 September 19–20, 2024HAIDI participated in the Socio-gerontechnology Network Meeting in ViennaThe Finnish team member Hanna Varjakoski participated in the annual meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network, which was held in Vienna, Austria. The two-day meeting titled as "Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World" brought together various scholars from social scienc

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-research-activities-2024 - 2025-05-07

Published 31 January 2025 Lund University is creating a national and international platform for interdisciplinary research in strategic communication and defence. Three researchers at the Department of Communication lead the new research environment. The research environment Communication, Defense Willingness and Democratic Resilience is located at Campus Helsingborg with funding of SEK 3 million

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/research-initiative-explores-defence-willingness-and-democratic-resilience - 2025-05-07

Published 29 January 2025 On Friday, January 24, Isabelle Karlsson defended her thesis titled "Making foreign policy matter: A discursive analysis of the strategic communication of Sweden's feminist foreign policy", which shows the complexity of strategic communication in an international context. Positive public opinion is important for states to realise foreign policy objectives and ambitions. T

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/isabelle-karlsson-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-05-07

Published 25 February 2025 Image: Michael Jeske/Pixabay We are excited to share three new research papers from the Healthy Ageing in a Digital World project, exploring key challenges and opportunities in digital health for older individuals. Barriers to Digital Health Services for Individuals Aged 75+This study examines the challenges older adults face when using digital health services in Finland

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-research-papers-healthy-ageing-digital-world - 2025-05-07

Published 3 March 2025 HAIDI Research Activities February 20–21, 2025. The Finnish team member, Hanna Varjakoski, participated in the Ageing in the Digital Era: An Interdisciplinary Debate on ICTs and Social Inclusion for Older Adults conference in Milan, Italy. The two-day conference was organized by an interdisciplinary research group from the ACTIVE-IT research project investigating population

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-research-findings-presented-international-conference-milan - 2025-05-07

Published 6 March 2025 This year, Media and Communication Studies instituted an award for exceptional master's theses in the subject. The papers given the Peter Dahlgren Excellent Dissertation Award had been publicly defended and received the highest grade."We instituted this prize to celebrate the hard work our international master programme students put into their theses every year and the amazi

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/first-recipients-peter-dahlgren-excellent-dissertation-award - 2025-05-07

Published 11 March 2025 On Friday, February 28, Monica Porzionato defended her thesis "Feeling the changing climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city". Strategic communication studies usually consider emotions as psychological effects of communication or as an influence on people's understanding of an issue. In the first case, emotions like joy or de

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/successful-defence-dr-monica-porzionato - 2025-05-07

Published 17 December 2024 At the end of April, the Faculty Board decided that a new department, the Department of Communication, will be created. The establishment of the new department is part of the faculty's development towards fewer units, but the merger has also been motivated by additional reasons. The new department will be established on 1 January 2025 and the following units will be incl

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-department-communication-january-2025 - 2025-05-07

Published 17 December 2024 Tobias Linné, Head of Department of the Department of Communication and Media. A new year is approaching and when the Faculty enters 2025, it will be with nine departments instead of the current eleven. The Faculty of Social Sciences will gradually develop towards fewer units over the next six years, according to a policy decision from 2023. After initial preparatory wor

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/eleven-departments-nine-turn-year - 2025-05-07

By minna [dot] wallen-widung [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Minna Wallen-Widung) - published 9 January 2025 Anamaria Dutceac Segesten was recently back in the studio to record updated lecture material on large language models for the ‘AI, business and the future of work’ MOOC. Photo: Petter Wärnsberg Lund University’s fastest growing online course can have up to a thousand new participants

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/tens-thousands-sign-ai-related-mooc - 2025-05-07

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 10 February 2025 In a large international study the researchers found that analysis by the AI led to 14 times fewer missed diagnoses of severe arrhythmias. Photo: Bild: iStock/alexaldo. In patients with symptoms such as irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, or in individuals that physicians suspect may have atrial

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-better-humans-analysing-long-term-ecg-recordings - 2025-05-07

By erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - published 4 February 2025 Pre-cancerous lesions, known as in situ cancers, were also more likely to be detected with AI – 51 per cent more such cases were found (68 people compared with 45). Photo: iStock New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-supported-breast-cancer-screening-new-results-suggest-even-higher-accuracy - 2025-05-07