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COMPTEXT 2025: Presentation by Yuru Li on AI videos on TikTok
ZeMKI member Yuru Li presents her research “Delegitimizing through Pixels: A Computational Analysis of GenAl Political Videos and User Responses on TikTok” at the COMPTEXT 2025 conference at the University of Vienna on April 25, 2025.
25. April 2025
Talk “Digital Turbulence” by Jan Rau at the Digital Media Theme Days
ZeMKI member Jan Rau holds a lecture on April 24, 2025 with the title “Digitale Turbulenzen: Challenges of a democratic society in times of (digital) upheaval” at the Digital Media Theme Days in Hamburg.
24. April 2025
New Publication "Mytholudics - Games and Myth" by Dom Ford
On April 21, 2025, De Gruyter published ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford's new book "Mytholudics - Games and Myth".
22. April 2025
Patrick Zerrer as a speaker at "Ortswechsel" in Braunschweig
On April 28, ZeMKI member Patrick Zerrer will be part of the panel of “Ortswechsel”, a series of events that makes potential spaces in Braunschweig visible.
22. April 2025
Earth Day with ZeMKI: Six Research Projects on Communication and Climate
On April 22, Earth Day unites the world to raise awareness for the protection of our planet. At ZeMKI, researchers are investigating the crucial role that media and communication play in shaping how we understand and engage with climate change.
21. April 2025
Open Discussion with David Gunkel at ZeMKI
On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, David Gunkel will be a guest at ZeMKI for a panel discussion on “LLMs and the Death of the Author” from 10 am to 12 pm.
17. April 2025
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler as speaker at “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele”
ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will hold a workshop at the working group “Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele” (Humanities and Digital Games) on April 17.
17. April 2025
New article by Andreas Hepp in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie
How can we research the digital future? ZeMKI member Professor Dr Andreas Hepp addresses this question in a new article published in the Berliner Journal für Soziologie.
14. April 2025
Vasilisa Kuznetsova presenting at Spring School "Media Climate Justice" in Bochum
PGMT Lab member Vasilisa Kuznetsova will be presenting at the upcoming Spring School "Media Climate Justice: Research, Skillsharing, Hacking", taking place in Bochum from 11 to 13 April.
11. April 2025
Nostalgia and nationalism: right-wing discourses on democracy in social media
The journal 'Publizistik' has published a new article by Miira Hill and Cornelius Puschmann on the topic “Nostalgia for a better democracy? How right-wing German social media commentators (mis)remember the past”.
10. April 2025
ComAI Lecture with Mike Schäfer
The next event in the ComAI Lecture series will take place on April 15. This time, Mike Schäfer from the University of Zurich will be a guest at the Bremen Press Club and talks on the topic “Science Communication and Artificial Intelligence: How AI is changing public communication about science”.
9. April 2025
Keynote presentation by Dom Ford
On April 9, 2025, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will hold a keynote presentation entitled “Mytholudics: Games and Myth” at the International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games at NOVA University Lisbon.
9. April 2025
Christine Davidsson Sandal as guest researcher at ZeMKI
Christine Davidsson Sandal from Lund University visited ZeMKI as a guest researcher and met with Andreas Hepp whose publication “The Mediated Construction of Reality” served as one of the main theoretical inspirations for her doctoral dissertation.
8. April 2025
Session 18 of "Behind the Scenes" Online Talk Series with Simran Agarwal
In the next session of the PGMT-Lab online talk series “Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research”, Simran Agarwal will talk about “Examining the State-Platform Nexus in the Governance of Online News in India”.
7. April 2025
INDI project at the center of new ZDFheute report
The team of the research project “INDI - INFORMIERT DURCH INFLUENCER” was accompanied at work as part of a current ZDF report entitled “Influencer und der Klimawandel”.
2. April 2025
New Springer VS publication „Zukunft der Medien - Medien der Zukunft“
To mark the 20th anniversary of the series “Medien - Kultur - Kommunikation”, Springer VS has published the volume “Zukunft der Medien - Medien der Zukunft”
31. March 2025
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the UNCG-Conference "The Liminal Game"
ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler speaks at the University of North Carolina on “Russian Invasion In Gamevironments And The Negotiation Of Values"
31. March 2025
Rasmus Greiner as a guest on the podcast “Moving Histories”
ZeMKI member Rasmus Greiner was a guest on the podcast “Moving Histories” and discussed the film “Godzilla Minus One” with the hosts.
28. March 2025
"Vermittelte Migrationserinnerungen: Medien, Generation und Familie" - book publication by Rieke Böhling
ZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling is publishing her dissertation on the question of how people with a 'migration background' remember the migration histories of their families.
25. March 2025
New ZeMKI Working Paper: “German Version better”: Mimetic Normativity in TikTok Daʿwa
Recently a new ZeMKI working paper entitled “German Version better”: Mimetic Normativity in TikTok Daʿwa was published.
24. March 2025
New publication by Paloma Viejo Otero and Rebecca Scharlach
ZeMKI members Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero and Dr. Rebecca Scharlach published their new paper “‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise safety” in the Platforms & Society Journal. Find the link to the full article here.
21. March 2025
Kathrin Trattner: Guest at the arte_tv Gaming Stream on Civilization VII
ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was part of the format “Couchwissen” of the twitch channel of arte_tv on the topic Civilization VII.
21. March 2025
Call for Papers for the Journal gamevironments Special Issue 2026
ZeMKI members Prof Dr Kerstin-Radde Antweiler, Prof Dr Karsten D. Wolf and Prof Dr Christian Schwarzenegger are guest editors for the currently advertised special issue “Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Meditized Society” of the journal gamevironments.
19. March 2025
ZeMKI speakers at the 70th DGPuK Annual Conference in Berlin
The 70th annual conference of the DGPuK with the topic “Public spheres and their values” will take place from March 19-21, 2025 in Berlin. You can find out which ZeMKI members have been invited as speakers in the following article.
18. March 2025