20th ZeMKI Anniversary: International Conference on "20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?"
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.
News

Exposé Workshops for First Year PhD Candidates in November 2025 at ZeMKI
16. October 2025

PhD Writing Week 2025 on Spiekeroog
16. October 2025

Job advertisement: Research Associate (f/m/d) in the research focus Digital Gaming
14. October 2025

ZeMKI at AoIR 2025
13. October 2025

The University of Bremen congratulates ZeMKI on its 20th anniversary
10. October 2025

New ZeMKI Working Paper: "Uncertain Election Polls, Uncertain News Coverage: Two-Sided Heterogeneity in News Outlet–Pollster Relations"
6. October 2025

New Research Colloquia in the Winter Semester 25/26
2. October 2025

ZeMKI at the annual protest research conference
1. October 2025
The labs
Selected reasearch projects

- Active
Pioneer Communities: Imagining ComAI and its possible futures (ComAI P1)
- Duration: 2025 – 2028
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp


- Active
OpenQDA: open qualitative data analysis software
- Duration: 2023 – 2025
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf

- Active
Equality, Platform Governance and Wellbeing
- Duration: 2022 – 2025
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero