Rikke Frank Jørgensen

Senior Researcher, Research
PhD in Communication and ICT
Experts Research
rfj@humanrights.dk
https://twitter.com/rikke_frank
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Publications

2003

Jørgensen, R. F., 'A Human Rights perspective on the World Summit on the Information Society ' in Henrich Böll Foundation Ed., Visions in Process I - The World Summit on the Information Society: Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005, Berlin: Henrich Böll Foundation, 2003, pp.9-14 (Non-peer-reviewed).
Jørgensen, R. F., 'Human Rights in the Information Society', FN-bladet, Special Issue, 2003 (Non-peer-reviewed).
Jørgensen, R. F., 'Menneskerettigheder i Informationssamfundet ', FN-bladet, Special issue on the World Summit on the Information Society, 2003 (Non-peer-reviewed).
Jørgensen, R. F., 'Verdenstopmødet om Informationssamfundet', FN-bladet, , 2003 (Non-peer-reviewed).
Marzouki, M. and Jørgensen, R.F., Towards an Information and Communication Society Respectful of Civil and Political Rights, as well as Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Citizens, Paris, France, 2003 (Peer-reviewed).

2002

Jørgensen, R. F., 'Internet, bibliotek og informationsfrihed', Mennesker og rettigheder, 4, 2002, pp.11-24 (Peer-reviewed).

1996

Jørgensen, R.F., 'The Communicative Organisation ' in Berit Holmqvist, Signs of Work. Semiosis and information processing in organisations, Berlin/New York: W. de Gruyter, 1996, pp. 269-282 (Peer-reviewed).

Key competencies

Human rights and internet, privacy, surveillance, freedom of expression, social media, civil society

Expertise

My research focuses on the intersection between technology and human rights. I have worked on “The digital welfare state – the case of Denmark” (ICS, 2021) “Human rights in the age of platforms” (MIT Press 2019); how citizens are exposed and privacy challenged in a Danish / European context (“Eksponeret”, Gads Forlag 2018); the way specific technology discourses inform regulation (“Framing the Net”, Edward Elgar 2013); and on “Human rights in the global information society” (MIT Press, 2006). I am particularly interested in issues related to agency, power and digitalisation, the commercialized public sphere, and technology discourses and regulation.

Selected research related activities

  • Danish Data Ethics Council – appointed member (2023 -)
  • Danish Board of Technology – member of the supervisory board (2023-)
  • Associate part-time lecturer in privacy and information ethics at Copenhagen University, department of Communication (2017-2022)
  • Member of Cph Tech Policy Committee – led by Rebecca Adler, Copenhagen University
  • Member of the Danish Governments expert group on Tech-giants (2022- )
  • Member of Djøfs TechDK Commission (2021-2022)
  • Member of the Academic Advisory Board for the “AI REUSE” research project, led by Louise Amoore, Durham University, Mikkel Flyverbom & Nanna Bonde Tylstrup, CBS (2019-2022)
  • Member of the Advisory Board for D-mærket, a Danish certification model for IT security and data ethics. Dansk Industri, Forbrugerrådet TÆNK m.fl. (2020 - )
  • Co-founder of Internet&Society, interdisciplinary research network anchored at Copenhagen University (2017-)
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for “The Peoples´ Internet” (PIN, 2016-20) – led by Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Copenhagen University
  • Expert Member of Council of Europe´s Committee on Rights of Internet Users (2012-2014)
  • Member of the Advisory Board for DataEthics – a politically independent ThinkDoTank based in Denmark with a European (and global) outreach (2018-)
  • Member of the Advisory Board for Ranking Digital Rights (Washington DC) – international project that monitor internet companies´ human rights performance (2018-2020)
  • Board member of European Digital Rights (2004-2008). Currently EDRI observer.

Selected podcasts

Please note most of them are in Danish.

 

Selected projects

  • Digital welfare

    The project examines the “digital welfare state” from a citizen and rights-based perspective.

  • AUTO-WELF

    The research project investigates the implementation of automated decision making in the welfare sector across eight European countries. Funded by CHANSE.

  • “Don't take it personal” - privacy and information in an algorithmic age

    The research project investigates the role privacy plays in an algorithmic society, including case studies of the Danish school platform AULA, as well as the interrelation between personal information and privacy. Funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

  • How do Danes perceive surveillance?

    The project is related to the Danish Value Survey (Værdiundersøgelsen). The project analyses how Danes perceive surveillance based on the survey data.

  • The commercialized public sphere

    The research project explores perceptions, practices and governance mechanisms related to human rights within internet platforms such as Google and Facebook. Funded by the Danish Independent Research Council (Sapere Aude).

  • FRAME: “Fostering Human Rights Among European (External and Internal) Policies”.

    The research project explores the role and contribution of “human rights” in selected EU policies. Funded under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)..
Portrait photo of Rikke Frank Jørgensen 2021
Portrait photo in black/white of Rikke Frank Jørgensen 2021

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