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Annual Lab Retreat: Datafication and Mediatization in Exchange

At the beginning of this week, the ZeMKI Lab „Datafication and Mediatization“ came together for its annual, multi-day lab retreat at the educational center in Bad Zwischenahn. The retreat once again provided the lab members with ample time and opportunity to discuss current research and publication projects in a larger group, to exchange teaching experiences, and to receive valuable feedback on upcoming work.

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Kerstin Radde-Antweiler in an interview with up2date

ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde Antweiler was interviewed by up2date, the online magazine of the University of Bremen. The interview discussed the relevance of video games to society. Whether serious games, environmental games, or first-person shooters: they all offer insights into human values. They promote violence, incite aggression, or are simply a waste of time: this is how video games are often portrayed. But this perspective is outdated, as religious and media studies scholar Kerstin Radde-Antweiler demonstrates.

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Article on the #Lützerath Protests in Environmental Communication

In the article “Activists Preserving the (Multi-Platform) Environment: Advocacy Coalitions of #Lützerath Climate Protests,” Hendrik Meyer, Patrick Zerrer, Hannah-Marie Büttner, and Tim Schatto-Eckrodt analyze how digital platforms shaped the climate protests surrounding the village of Lützerath.

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New ZeMKI Working Paper No. 55 published

The new ZeMKI working paper by authors Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Solange Lefebvre, and Gladys Ganiel, entitled “The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19. Research Project Methodology,” is now available.

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Cornelius Puschmann as an Expert in Deutschlandfunk's media magazine

ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann appeared as an expert guest on Deutschlandfunk's media magazine @mediasres. The episode, entitled “Minneapolis: The Influence of Right-Wing Newsfluencers,” focuses on the question of what influence right-wing influencers have on political opinion-forming in the US.

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Seed funding for the research project “Island Memories: Exploring the Intersection of Local and Digital Memory Practices” by Impuls Forschung of the Hanse University Alliance

ZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling and Dr. Berber Hagedoorn (University of Groningen, Netherlands) receive seed funding from the Hanse University Alliances’s Impuls Forschung program to hold two workshops – one on the North Sea island of Spiekeroog (Germany) and one on Schiermonnikoog (Netherlands). 

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