International Anniversary Conference "20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?"Register now for free ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) is one of nine central research units at the University of Bremen and is one of the important European institutions researching questions into media-related transformations at the interface of the cultural, social, and technical sciences. Our research focuses on the emerging digital society in terms of the inequalities it generates while probing the historicity of their genesis and the challenges posed by algorithmic systems, automation, and the burgeoning datafied society. previous 123…13 next News New Publication "Mytholudics - Games and Myth" by Dom Ford On April 21, 2025, De Gruyter published ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford's new book "Mytholudics - Games and Myth". 22. April 2025 News Patrick Zerrer as a speaker at "Ortswechsel" in Braunschweig On April 28, ZeMKI member Patrick Zerrer will be part of the panel of “Ortswechsel”, a series of events that makes potential spaces in Braunschweig visible. 22. April 2025 News Earth Day with ZeMKI: Six Research Projects on Communication and Climate On April 22, Earth Day unites the world to raise awareness for the protection of our planet. At ZeMKI, researchers are investigating the crucial role that media and communication play in shaping how we understand and engage with climate change. 21. April 2025 News Open Discussion with David Gunkel at ZeMKI On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, David Gunkel will be a guest at ZeMKI for a panel discussion on “LLMs and the Death of the Author” from 10 am to 12 pm. 17. April 2025 News Kerstin Radde-Antweiler as speaker at “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele” ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will hold a workshop at the working group “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele” (Humanities and Digital Games) on April 17. 17. April 2025 News New article by Andreas Hepp in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie How can we research the digital future? ZeMKI member Professor Dr Andreas Hepp addresses this question in a new article published in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie. 14. April 2025 News ComAI Lecture with Mike Schäfer The next event in the ComAI Lecture series will take place on April 15. This time, Mike Schäfer from the University of Zurich will be a guest at the Bremen Press Club and talks on the topic “Science Communication and Artificial Intelligence: How AI is changing public communication about science”. 9. April 2025 News Keynote presentation by Dom Ford On April 9, 2025, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will hold a keynote presentation entitled “Mytholudics: Games and Myth” at the International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games at NOVA University Lisbon. 9. April 2025 News Christine Davidsson Sandal as guest researcher at ZeMKI Christine Davidsson Sandal from Lund University visited ZeMKI as a guest researcher and met with Andreas Hepp whose publication “The Mediated Construction of Reality” served as one of the main theoretical inspirations for her doctoral dissertation. 8. April 2025 News Session 18 of "Behind the Scenes" Online Talk Series with Simran Agarwal In the next session of the PGMT-Lab online talk series “Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research”, Simran Agarwal will talk about “Examining the State-Platform Nexus in the Governance of Online News in India”. 7. April 2025 News INDI project at the center of new ZDFheute report The team of the research project “INDI - INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” was accompanied at work as part of a current ZDF report entitled “Influencer und der Klimawandel”. 2. April 2025 News New Springer VS publication „Zukunft der Medien - Medien der Zukunft“ To mark the 20th anniversary of the series “Medien - Kultur - Kommunikation”, Springer VS has published the volume “Zukunft der Medien - Medien der Zukunft” 31. March 2025 News Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the UNCG-Conference "The Liminal Game" ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the University of North Carolina on “Russian Invasion In Gamevironments And The Negotiation Of Values" 31. March 2025 News Rasmus Greiner as a guest on the podcast “Moving Histories” ZeMKI member Rasmus Greiner was a guest on the podcast “Moving Histories” and discussed the film “Godzilla Minus One” with the hosts. 28. March 2025 News "Vermittelte Migrationserinnerungen: Medien, Generation und Familie" - book publication by Rieke Böhling ZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling is publishing her dissertation on the question of how people with a 'migration background' remember the migration histories of their families. 25. March 2025 News New ZeMKI Working Paper: “German Version better”: Mimetic Normativity in TikTok Daʿwa Recently a new ZeMKI working paper entitled “German Version better”: Mimetic Normativity in TikTok Daʿwa was published. 24. March 2025 News New publication by Paloma Viejo Otero and Rebecca Scharlach ZeMKI members Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero and Dr. Rebecca Scharlach published their new paper “‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise safety” in the Platforms & Society Journal. Find the link to the full article here. 21. March 2025 News Kathrin Trattner: Guest at the arte_tv Gaming Stream on Civilization VII ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was part of the format “Couchwissen” of the twitch channel of arte_tv on the topic Civilization VII. 21. March 2025 News Call for Papers for the Journal gamevironments Special Issue 2026 ZeMKI members Prof Dr Kerstin-Radde Antweiler, Prof Dr Karsten D. Wolf and Prof Dr Christian Schwarzenegger are guest editors for the currently advertised special issue “Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Meditized Society” of the journal gamevironments. 19. March 2025 News ZeMKI speakers at the 70th DGPuK Annual Conference in Berlin The 70th annual conference of the DGPuK with the topic “Public spheres and their values” will take place from March 19-21, 2025 in Berlin. You can find out which ZeMKI members have been invited as speakers in the following article. 18. March 2025 News Kathrin Trattner: Interview on radio station FM4 ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was interviewed by the Austrian public radio station FM4 on the topic of “Right-wing extremism and games culture”. The interview can be accessed here. 13. March 2025 News Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann at workshop on AI in scientific research Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID-Lab will give a talk at the workshop “Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science” at TU Berlin. The event from April 2 to 4, 2025 is open to the public and free of charge. 12. March 2025 News Dissertation by Katharina Heitmann-Werner: Zivilgesellschaft und Stadtteilöffentlichkeit Katharina Heitmann-Werner examines, using the approach of communicative configuration, how urban public spheres are constituted by civil society actors and analyzes their communication strategies and networks in local public spheres. 10. March 2025 News ComAI featured in taz: Researching Societal Communication in the Age of AI The research group “Communicative AI” (ComAI) was featured in a recent taz article. It explores the central question of our project: How does societal communication change when Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes part of it? 10. March 2025 previous 123…13 next
News New Publication "Mytholudics - Games and Myth" by Dom Ford On April 21, 2025, De Gruyter published ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford's new book "Mytholudics - Games and Myth". 22. April 2025
News Patrick Zerrer as a speaker at "Ortswechsel" in Braunschweig On April 28, ZeMKI member Patrick Zerrer will be part of the panel of “Ortswechsel”, a series of events that makes potential spaces in Braunschweig visible. 22. April 2025
News Earth Day with ZeMKI: Six Research Projects on Communication and Climate On April 22, Earth Day unites the world to raise awareness for the protection of our planet. At ZeMKI, researchers are investigating the crucial role that media and communication play in shaping how we understand and engage with climate change. 21. April 2025
News Open Discussion with David Gunkel at ZeMKI On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, David Gunkel will be a guest at ZeMKI for a panel discussion on “LLMs and the Death of the Author” from 10 am to 12 pm. 17. April 2025
News Kerstin Radde-Antweiler as speaker at “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele” ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will hold a workshop at the working group “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele” (Humanities and Digital Games) on April 17. 17. April 2025
News New article by Andreas Hepp in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie How can we research the digital future? ZeMKI member Professor Dr Andreas Hepp addresses this question in a new article published in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie. 14. April 2025
News ComAI Lecture with Mike Schäfer The next event in the ComAI Lecture series will take place on April 15. This time, Mike Schäfer from the University of Zurich will be a guest at the Bremen Press Club and talks on the topic “Science Communication and Artificial Intelligence: How AI is changing public communication about science”. 9. April 2025
News Keynote presentation by Dom Ford On April 9, 2025, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will hold a keynote presentation entitled “Mytholudics: Games and Myth” at the International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games at NOVA University Lisbon. 9. April 2025
News Christine Davidsson Sandal as guest researcher at ZeMKI Christine Davidsson Sandal from Lund University visited ZeMKI as a guest researcher and met with Andreas Hepp whose publication “The Mediated Construction of Reality” served as one of the main theoretical inspirations for her doctoral dissertation. 8. April 2025
News Session 18 of "Behind the Scenes" Online Talk Series with Simran Agarwal In the next session of the PGMT-Lab online talk series “Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research”, Simran Agarwal will talk about “Examining the State-Platform Nexus in the Governance of Online News in India”. 7. April 2025
News INDI project at the center of new ZDFheute report The team of the research project “INDI - INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” was accompanied at work as part of a current ZDF report entitled “Influencer und der Klimawandel”. 2. April 2025
News New Springer VS publication „Zukunft der Medien - Medien der Zukunft“ To mark the 20th anniversary of the series “Medien - Kultur - Kommunikation”, Springer VS has published the volume “Zukunft der Medien - Medien der Zukunft” 31. March 2025
News Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the UNCG-Conference "The Liminal Game" ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the University of North Carolina on “Russian Invasion In Gamevironments And The Negotiation Of Values" 31. March 2025
News Rasmus Greiner as a guest on the podcast “Moving Histories” ZeMKI member Rasmus Greiner was a guest on the podcast “Moving Histories” and discussed the film “Godzilla Minus One” with the hosts. 28. March 2025
News "Vermittelte Migrationserinnerungen: Medien, Generation und Familie" - book publication by Rieke Böhling ZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling is publishing her dissertation on the question of how people with a 'migration background' remember the migration histories of their families. 25. March 2025
News New ZeMKI Working Paper: “German Version better”: Mimetic Normativity in TikTok Daʿwa Recently a new ZeMKI working paper entitled “German Version better”: Mimetic Normativity in TikTok Daʿwa was published. 24. March 2025
News New publication by Paloma Viejo Otero and Rebecca Scharlach ZeMKI members Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero and Dr. Rebecca Scharlach published their new paper “‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise safety” in the Platforms & Society Journal. Find the link to the full article here. 21. March 2025
News Kathrin Trattner: Guest at the arte_tv Gaming Stream on Civilization VII ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was part of the format “Couchwissen” of the twitch channel of arte_tv on the topic Civilization VII. 21. March 2025
News Call for Papers for the Journal gamevironments Special Issue 2026 ZeMKI members Prof Dr Kerstin-Radde Antweiler, Prof Dr Karsten D. Wolf and Prof Dr Christian Schwarzenegger are guest editors for the currently advertised special issue “Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Meditized Society” of the journal gamevironments. 19. March 2025
News ZeMKI speakers at the 70th DGPuK Annual Conference in Berlin The 70th annual conference of the DGPuK with the topic “Public spheres and their values” will take place from March 19-21, 2025 in Berlin. You can find out which ZeMKI members have been invited as speakers in the following article. 18. March 2025
News Kathrin Trattner: Interview on radio station FM4 ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was interviewed by the Austrian public radio station FM4 on the topic of “Right-wing extremism and games culture”. The interview can be accessed here. 13. March 2025
News Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann at workshop on AI in scientific research Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID-Lab will give a talk at the workshop “Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science” at TU Berlin. The event from April 2 to 4, 2025 is open to the public and free of charge. 12. March 2025
News Dissertation by Katharina Heitmann-Werner: Zivilgesellschaft und Stadtteilöffentlichkeit Katharina Heitmann-Werner examines, using the approach of communicative configuration, how urban public spheres are constituted by civil society actors and analyzes their communication strategies and networks in local public spheres. 10. March 2025
News ComAI featured in taz: Researching Societal Communication in the Age of AI The research group “Communicative AI” (ComAI) was featured in a recent taz article. It explores the central question of our project: How does societal communication change when Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes part of it? 10. March 2025
