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

ZeMKI at DGPs 2025 in Duisburg
11. September 2025

Annual retreat of the ZeMKI steering committee
11. September 2025

New article by Andreas Hepp in New Media & Society
9. September 2025

Political Polarization and Individualized Online Information Environments: A Longitudinal Tracking Study (POLTRACK)
8. September 2025

INDI project presented at the BMFTR status conference in Berlin
5. September 2025

Lucía Cores-Sarría visits ZeMKI as part of the YUFE network
3. September 2025

New ZeMKI Working Paper: "Beyond the gaze: Rhythms of surveillance, care, and recognition in the transcontinental race"
1. September 2025

ZeMKI researchers discuss the influence of video games on society in new RiffReporter article
1. September 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: 2025
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf

- Active
Reignite Multilateralism via Technology (REMIT)
- Duration: 2023 – 2027
- Project lead: Dr. Dennis Redeker

- Active
molo.news: Research Network Tests Bremen News App
- Duration: 2023 – 2026
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen , Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold