ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

A new article on the media coverage of " Maker" and "Quantified Self" movements in the Covid-19 pandemic by Jeanette Asmuss and ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Julie Lüpkes and Anne Schmitz has been published in the journal "Communications".

On November 26, 2024, Christoph Pieper (Director of Communications Werder Bremen) will be a guest in the KMW 1 lecture "Introduction to Theories and Basic Concepts" by ZeMKI member Dr. Philip Sinner.

The monograph by ZeMKI member Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled (M.A.) on "Tintin" - Western Constructions of the Middle East in Pop Cultural Media: A Discourse Analysis on the Construction of the Other" was recently published by VIRR.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a talk entitled: "Datafication, Automation and Communicative AI: Broadening the Scope of Mediatization Research" at an online colloquium on December 6 at 3 pm.

The Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID) welcomes Daniel Whelan-Shamy from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, as a visiting researcher at ZeMKI. 

On November 26, the ComAI Lecture with Prof. Dr. Claes de Vreese (Universiteit van Amsterdam) on the topic "The AI Effect: How (generative) AI is reshaping discussions about elections and democracy" will take place at Bremer Presse-Club.

On November 29, 2024, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will give a talk on "How players talk about disastrous game launches: What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II?" at the “Conference on Language, Norms and Digital Lives” at the University of Copenhagen.

ZeMKI member Dr. Rebecca Scharlach was a guest on the podcast "Im Gespräch" by SWR Aktuell and talks about ways to escape the flood of negative news, especially on social networks.

On November 19, this semester's first ComAI Lecture with Ralf Bendrath (Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament) on the topic "How the EU's AI Act came about. Insights from a Negotiator" will take place at Bremer Presse-Club.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will give a lecture on November 16, 2014 on the topic “How to Deal with an Aggressor in Real Time? Digital Gaming as Part of Interpreting and Negotiating the Russian Invasion of 2022” at the University of Heidelberg. The workshop will analyze video games that reconstruct, model, or draw (…)

A new report from the Recov-19 project on the topic “Between faith and pandemic – How Corona has changed religious communities” was published in the online magazine “up2date”. Easter 2020: Instead of together with tens of thousands of believers, the Pope celebrated the Easter mass alone with a few other clergy. Elsewhere, digital offerings flourished, (…)

Harvard's NiemanLab has featured research from the POLTRACK project by Cornelius Puschmann, Patrick Zerrer, Sebastien Stier and Helena Rauxloh on predictors of alternative news consumption in a recent newsletter.

On November 20, 2024, the research colloquium by Prof. Dr. Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed on "Research challenges and innovation in audiovisual archives: case studies from Colombia and Wales" will take place at the ZeMKI.

On November 5, 2024, ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner will give a guest lecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna on the topic “‘Was Barbarossa not German?!’ Nation, History, and Identity in Gamer Discussions”. ‘What is the difference between a nation and a state?’ ‘Was Barbarossa German?’ ‘Are the Cree an actual nation?‘ (…)

A new publication by ZeMKI member Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero entitled "Platform Governance and Social Justice. Governing Hate Speech on Social Media" will be published by Emerald Publishing Limited on November 18, 2024.

In context with Elon Musk's takeover of X, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach was recently quoted in the dossier "Digitalwende" of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and will be heard on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on Saturday, November 2, 2024.

ZeMKI member Dr. Hannah Grünenthal has published the article “‘Catholic’ and ‘Charismatic’. Two Logics of Legitimization and the Negotiation of Belonging in the German Catholic Charismatic Renewal” in “Social Forms of Religion European and American Christianity in Past and Present”. This article explores how the German Catholic Charismatic Renewal (GCCR) navigates its positioning in the (…)

On November 6, 2024, the research colloquium by Prof. Dr. Christian Greiffenhagen, Rongyu Li and Mark Perry on "Resolving Ambiguity in Symmetrical Interactions: 'Do I Scan You or You Scan Me?'” will take place at the ZeMKI.

A research group involving ZeMKI members Prof. Cornelius Puschmann and Patrick Zerrer has been awarded the contract for a study by the Federal Network Agency on the systemic risks of platforms in the context of the Digital Service Act.

The invitation to the event with the abstract of the lecture and more information about Dr. Jens Pohlmann can be found here.

From October 30, 2024 to November 02, 2024, this year's Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference will take place at the University of Sheffield, where numerous ZeMKI members will give presentations.

The PGMT Lab is going to AoIR in Sheffield, UK, from October 30 to November 2, 2024. The conference brings together hundreds of academics, researchers and other participants for an interdisciplinary, multi-methodological look at the Internet.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger holds two presentations at workshops in Copenhagen and Stockholm this week.

We are excited to welcome Dr. Rebecca Scharlach as the newest member of the PGMT Lab at ZeMKI! In her postdoctoral project, Rebecca will explore the socio-technical impact of integrating generative AI into social media platforms.