News Archive

Radio interview with Christian Schwarzenegger: "30 years DVD"

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the DVD, Bremen Zwei broadcasts an interview with ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger.

10. January 2025

Job advertisement: Tenure-Track-Professor for the subject area Media, Society and the Good Life

The University of Bremen is seeking to fill a professorship in Communication and Media Studies in Faculty 9 Cultural Studies as soon as possible with then following profile: Tenure-Track-Professor (f/m/x) with tenure-track after W2 (Salary Level W1) for the subject area Media, Society and the Good Life.

9. January 2025

Radio interview with Rieke Böhling: "Genealogy - who am I?"

In the WDR 5 feature "Curiosity is enough" on the topic "Ancestry research - who am I?" ZeMKI member Dr. Rieke Böhling reports from her current research on family history, memory and genealogy platforms.

8. January 2025

Call for applications: ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellowship 2025

Our Fellowship Program invites international researchers to Bremen for four weeks to deepen and connect their research in the transformation of media, communication, and information. We are looking for established scholars who want to enjoy the thriving interdisciplinary research environment at ZeMKI.

7. January 2025

ZeMKI research software in focus

In December 2024, the latest version of OpenQDA, an open source research infrastructure for qualitative data analysis, was presented at a workshop at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. A report on this has now been published by Roland Toth.

3. January 2025

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Publication of 10th Anniversary Issue "Revisiting Gamevironments"

The journal gamevironments celebrates its 10th anniversary with the publication of the 21st issue “Revisiting Gamevironments”.

2. January 2025

ComAI research unit on communicative artificial intelligence kicks off

At ZeMKI, the DFG/FWF research unit “ComAI” on the automation of social communication, which was acquired jointly with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, the University of Graz and the University of Vienna, starts on January 1, 2025.

1. January 2025

ZeMKI wishes a happy end of year!

Another year is coming to an end and we would like to say 'thank you'!

19. December 2024

Out now: ZeMKI Research Report 2023/2024

The research report presents the diverse research activities at ZeMKI since fall 2023 on 164 pages. For the first time, special attention is paid to a focus topic, which is presented on a total of 24 pages: this year communicative artificial intelligence, or ComAI for short.

19. December 2024

Article published in Media and Communication

ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger, Dr. Erik Koenen, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf have published the article “Beyond Play: Researching the Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in Deeply Mediatized Societies” in the journal Media and Communication.

18. December 2024

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Guest lecture by Darin Harff: Political communication by influencers

Dr. Darian Harff from the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna will give a guest lecture on the political communication of influencers at the DCID Lab's colloquium on December 18, 2025.

18. December 2024

Workshop at ZeMKI to develop a YUFE BIP on platform and AI governance

On 2 and 3 December 2024, the “Perspectives on Platform Governance” workshop took place between researchers from four YUFE (Young Universities for the Future of Europe) partner universities at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen, Germany. Hosted by the Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab at ZeMKI, University of Bremen, and funded by the State (…)

16. December 2024

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Session 14 of "Behind the Scenes" Online Talk Series with Diyi Liu

Diyi Liu from the Oxford Internet Institute will be speaking in the next session of the PGMT Lab online talk series “Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research”.

12. December 2024

ComAI Lecture with Jeremy Knox

On December 17, the ComAI Lecture with Prof. Dr. Jeremy Knox (University of Oxford & University of Edinburgh) on the topic "AI, Education, and Power" will take place at Bremer Presse-Club.

10. December 2024

New book: “Resilience in the digital society” (in German)

ZeMKI member Dr. Leif Kramp co-authored a monograph (in German language) on digital media use in times of wars, crises and AI.

4. December 2024

Lecture by Sandra Kero at the TH Köln: "Femininity as Obsession and Strategy"

ZeMKI member Sandra Kero gave a lecture entitled "Femininity as obsession and strategy. The extreme right and women" on November 27 at the TH Köln.

2. December 2024

Open throughout Germany: Local Information Platform molo expands and is now available everywhere

The local info app molo is expanding: The BMBF-funded ZeMKI project is no longer limited to project locations, but can now be used throughout Germany as a platform for local information and events.

2. December 2024

New Article: "Solving the Crisis with 'Do-It-Yourself Heroes'?"

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".

29. November 2024

Practice meets Science: Christoph Pieper (Director of Communications at Werder Bremen) as a Guest at the ZeMKI

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.

26. November 2024

Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled: Publication of her work on Western constructions in Tintin

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.

26. November 2024

Talk by Andreas Hepp at the Online Colloquium "Living and Research in Times of Deep Mediatization"

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.

25. November 2024

Daniel Whelan-Shamy from Queensland as Visiting Researcher at ZeMKI

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.

25. November 2024

ComAI Lecture with Prof. Dr. Claes de Vreese

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.

21. November 2024

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Lecture at the 'Generative Images - Generative Imageries' conference

Cornelius Puschmann and Paul Pressmann will give a talk on "Images of Resistance: Exploring Folk Theories in User-Induced Collective Interventions against AI-generated Images on Facebook" at a DGPuK conference in Bremen.

21. November 2024