NORDIS

The Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder (NORDIS) is a consortium of researchers and fact-checkers from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. We are one of the national hubs of The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO).

NORDIS is funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement number INEA/CEF/ICT/A2020/2394203. 

The consortium is lead by Aarhus University’s DATALAB. Our principal investigator is professor Anja Bechmann. 

Our aim is to develop theories, practices and models that can help counteract digital information disorders – the spread of misinformation, disinformation and other forms of harmful information online – and to help empower citizens in the Nordic welfare states to resist such information by enabling them to enhance their media literacy.

NORDIS has members from several universities and fact-checking organizations:

The NORDIS team

Anja Bechmann, Principal Investigator
Professor at the Department of Media Studies and director of DATALAB, Aarhus University

Jessica Gabriele Walter, Postdoctoral fellow at DATALAB, Aarhus University

Marina Charquero Ballester, Postdoctoral fellow at DATALAB, Aarhus University

Mathias Holm Tveen, Daily Project Coordinator, Research assistant at DATALAB, Aarhus University

Petra de Place Bak, Research assistant at DATALAB, Aarhus University

Morten Langfeldt Dahlback, Fact-checking coordinator, Head of Development and Technology, Faktisk.no

Kristoffer Egeberg, NORDIS Steering Board Member, Editor-in-chief and CEO, Faktisk.no

Åsa Larsson, Editor-in-chief and CEO, Källkritikbyrån

Carl-Gustav Lindén, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen

Duc Tien Dang Nguyen, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen

Andreas L. Opdahl, Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen

Laurence Dierickx, Ph.d researcher, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen

Thomas Hedin, Editor-in-chief, TjekDet

Daniel Greneaa Hansen, Fact-checker, TjekDet

Matteo Magnani, Associate professor, InfoLab, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University

Davide Vega, Assistant Professor, InfoLab, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University

Victoria Yantseva, Postdoctoral fellow, InfoLab, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University

Mikko Salo, NORDIS Steering Board Member, Founder and CEO, Faktabaari

Joonas Pörsti, Editor-in-chief (on leave), Faktabaari

Kari Kivinen, EDU Lead, Faktabaari

Pipsa Havula, Fact-checker and acting Editor-in-chief, Faktabaari

Minna Aslama Horowitz, Docent at the University of Helsinki; Fellow at St. John’s University, New York; Expert on Advocacy and Digital Rights at the Central European University

Mervi Pantti, Professor, Media and Communications Studies, University of Helsinki

John Grönvall, Ph. d candidate, Media and communications studies, Lecturer in Film and Media at Arcada University of Applied Science University