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The 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) will take place from October 15 to 18, 2025, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ZeMKI will also be represented with numerous contributions under this year's theme, “Ruptures.”

To mark the 20th anniversary of ZeMKI, the University of Bremen's online magazine up2date has published a detailed article on the history, development, and significance of ZeMKI.

A new working paper by Shichao Zhang, Shinae Lee and Chankyung Pak entitled “Uncertain Election Polls, Uncertain News Coverage: Two-Sided Heterogeneity in News Outlet–Pollster Relations" was recently published.

In the winter semester 2025/26, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen once again invites you to an exciting series of international research colloquia.

This year's protest research conference, entitled “Protests and Social Movements between Innovation and Tradition,” will take place from October 1 to October 2, 2025, at the Forum am Domshof in Bremen. ZeMKI will be represented with numerous presentations.

The latest Domradio report highlights the research of ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, who has been working with international partners for three years to investigate the interplay between religion and artificial intelligence.

The Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity participated in the 42nd Congress of the German Sociological Association “Transitions” (22–26 September 2025, University of Duisburg-Essen) by convening an ad-hoc group.

The 8th annual conference of the DGPuK Media Sports and Sports Communication expert group took place in Frankfurt am Main from September 17 to 19, 2025, under the theme of “Sustainability & Diversity in Sports Communication”.