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On February 10, ZeMKI members Paula Goerke, Jule Jensen, and Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter will speak  12 p.m. at UC Berkeley about “AI and Student Experience in German Universities” as part of a lecture series funded by the Center for Studies in Higher Education.

We are delighted that our ZeMKI member Hendrik Kühn successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Im Dialog mit Abwesenden" (In Dialogue with Absentees) on February 5, 2026.

A new workshop which is organized by ZeMKI members Dr. Vesi Vuković and Prof. Dr. Winfried Pauleit and also Prof. Dr. Sanja Bahn from the University of Essex focuses on Yugoslav women film workers, who are largely overlooked in the historical accounts of the cinema of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (approximately from 1947 to 1991). It examines the work behind the camera, for instance of film directors, editors, and screenwriters. 

At the beginning of this week, the ZeMKI Lab „Datafication and Mediatization“ came together for its annual, multi-day lab retreat at the educational center in Bad Zwischenahn. The retreat once again provided the lab members with ample time and opportunity to discuss current research and publication projects in a larger group, to exchange teaching experiences, and to receive valuable feedback on upcoming work.

ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde Antweiler was interviewed by up2date, the online magazine of the University of Bremen. The interview discussed the relevance of video games to society. Whether serious games, environmental games, or first-person shooters: they all offer insights into human values. They promote violence, incite aggression, or are simply a waste of time: this is how video games are often portrayed. But this perspective is outdated, as religious and media studies scholar Kerstin Radde-Antweiler demonstrates.

In the article “Activists Preserving the (Multi-Platform) Environment: Advocacy Coalitions of #Lützerath Climate Protests,” Hendrik Meyer, Patrick Zerrer, Hannah-Marie Büttner, and Tim Schatto-Eckrodt analyze how digital platforms shaped the climate protests surrounding the village of Lützerath.

The new ZeMKI working paper by authors Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Solange Lefebvre, and Gladys Ganiel, entitled “The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19. Research Project Methodology,” is now available.

ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann appeared as an expert guest on Deutschlandfunk's media magazine @mediasres. The episode, entitled “Minneapolis: The Influence of Right-Wing Newsfluencers,” focuses on the question of what influence right-wing influencers have on political opinion-forming in the US.