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To coincide with the selection of the German bid for the 2036, 2040, and 2044 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games (Munich together with Kiel), the 9th Annual Conference of the DGPuK’s Media Sports and Sports Communication Section took place at HAW Kiel from September 23 to 25, 2026. Theme: From Olympic Arenas to Digital Venues—Communication Spaces in Sports. Well represented: ZeMKI.

ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will moderate the panel "Evangelical Right and Islamist Extremism in Germany and the State of Bremen" on September 29, 2026.

The new ZeMKI research report provides insights into current research projects, topics, and activities at the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research at the University of Bremen. The 2025/26 edition focuses on the focus topic “Digital Gaming.” Several articles address digital games as a subject of media and communication research, values and education in the context of gaming, and the new Digital Gaming & Media Experience Research Studio (DiGaMER) at ZeMKI.

ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has published together with Ilona Nord an article titled "Agency, Religion, and Digitalization: Interdisciplinary Inquiries and Systematizing Reflections" in the journal "Zeitschrift für Ethik der Medien und der digitalen Gesellschaft" (Journal for the Ethics of Media and the Digital Society). 

ZeMKI's Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology at the University of Bremen is hosting two "EU-Africa AI Governance Fellows" for the AI PAN-AFRICANISM project. The first fellow, Dr. Nicola Palladino, began his research stay in August 2026 to explore digital sovereignty and AI governance. This initiative pilots a long-term European-African network for future MSCA staff exchanges.

On German Unity Day, October 3, 2026, at 11:15 a.m., ZeMKI member Rieke Böhling will give a presentation titled “Your Family—Your History” at the Kaufhaus der Wissenschaft as part of the Children’s University for the German Unity Celebration.

On the occasion of the “Democracy Needs Many Voices” action week organized by the Federal Association of Digital Publishers and Newspaper Publishers (BDZV), ZeMKI member Prof. Christian Schwarzenegger discusses the use of alternative information channels in an article in the Weser-Kurier.

ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler will be a guest at the panel discussion following the performance of "TIMMY – Die Hope stirbt zuletzt" at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg on Sunday, 20 September 2026 (main stage, 7.30 pm).