Platform Collective Behavior and the Making of Democracy
Name of applicant
Anja Bechmann
Title
Professor
Institution
Aarhus University
Amount
DKK 1,093,214
Year
2025
Type of grant
Monograph Fellowships
Summary
This monograph presents a novel framework for understanding platform collective behavior, showing how humans and AI together create hidden patterns that shape democracy. From misinformation to filter bubbles and extensive time spent on platforms, it reveals subtle dynamics and offers new theoretical and methodological ways to make large-scale online behavior visible, understandable, and analysable.