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As part of the 10th HumAIn Talks at the University of Oslo, ZeMKI Speaker Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a talk on Silicon Valley, pioneer communities, and AI futures this coming Friday, October 23.

How do you research your own family history online? ZeMKI Member Dr. Rieke Böhling will discuss this topic on Thursday, October 22, at 8:30 p.m. at Gastfeld. Her talk is titled “From Information Exchange to DNA Analysis: Researching Family History Online” and will last about 30 minutes. Afterward, all guests are invited to ask questions and join the discussion.

The PGMT Lab team presents its research on AI governance, content moderation, and platform accountability at the AoIR 2026 conference in Mexico City. We are happy of our team's contributions and wish everyone a successful conference!

ZeMKI member Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has published policy recommendations from the RECOV-19 project together with international colleagues. Findings from the project “RECOV-19: Religions in Societies Emerging from COVID-19” are now available as a policy paper. The paper, “Religions During a Public Health Emergency: Policy Lessons for the European Commission’s Dialogue with Churches, Religious Associations and Non-Confessional Organisations”, was published in September 2026.

The Lab Media and Religion is hosting a student symposium on Thursday, October 8, 2026. The event will showcase the results of two seminars focusing on conspiracy theories and (far-right) Christian influencers, with students presenting their teaching-based research projects.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise, together with Marko Bachl, Merja Mahrt, and Annie Waldherr, is editing an English-language special issue of Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M&K) on the topic “Futuring Communication Research: Communicative AI as a Methodological Toolbox and Research Companion.” Contributions for this issue may be submitted in the form of an extended abstract by November 30, 2026.

At the 43rd Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) on the topic “Futures of Society,” ZeMKI members Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp and Sandra Kero will deliver two presentations.

ZeMKI will be present on Saturday, October 3, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on Sunday, October 4, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with its own Media Area on the ground floor of BREMENwelt Wissenschaft in the former GALERIA KAUFHOF building.