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ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Emilija Gagrčin will be the keynote speaker at the opening panel of ECREA26.

As part of the P1 ComAI project “Pioneer Communities: Imagining ComAI and its Possible Futures”, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp has published the article “The Imaginative Landscape of AI: Locating Silicon Valley’s ‘quiet futuring’” in the Media, Culture & Society Journal. The article is open-access and is freely available to everyone.

Imane El Qochairi is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. She is part of the research project “Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action” with Dr. Dennis Redeker as Project Lead and she is affiliated with the ZeMKI (…)

Chiara Spiniello is a postdoctoral researcher at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen. Her research lies at the intersection of political science, comparative public law, and digital governance, with a particular focus on digital constitutionalism, digital sovereignty, electoral processes, and forms of government. In 2021, she obtained a PhD in (…)

In April, ZeMKI launched a new international and transdisciplinary research initiative titled “Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action“ (AI PAN-AFRICANISM). The project is funded by VolkswagenStiftung in their ‘Change! Fellowship’ line of funding and led by Dr. Dennis Redeker. AI PAN-AFRICANISM conducts state-of-the-art mixed methods research and co-develops decolonial, rights-based, and (…)

Dr. Adio-Adet Dinika is a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and co-lead of the Data Workers’ Inquiry project. With extensive fieldwork experience across Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, and other African countries, Dr. Dinika’s research explores labor dynamics in the AI-driven economy, platform governance, and decolonial perspectives in technology. He holds a PhD (…)

ZeMKI members Dr. Dennis Redeker and Dr. Chiara Spiniello contributed to the 2nd Annual Conference of the Horizon Europe project REMIT (Reignite Multilateralism via Technology), held at Luiss Università di Roma in Rome on 15-16 April 2026. The conference brought together leading scholars and policymakers to discuss the governance of strategic technologies, with a focus (…)

The upcoming ComAI Lecture will take place next Tuesday, May 26. Our guest in Bremen will be Prof. Dr. Simone Natale, Associate Professor in Media Theory and History at the University of Turin, Italy. His lecture will focus on the topic “AI, Agency, and Power Geometries.”