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The IAMCR will take place in Singapore from July 13 to 17, 2025. This year's theme is: “Communicating Environmental Justice: Many Voices, One Planet”.

How is the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) envisioned – and who shapes these visions? A new article by ZeMKI members Vanessa Richter and Christian Katzenbach investigates this question.

The full media talk with journalist, filmmaker and author Hubertus Koch on the topic of "Journalism on social media: Disappointment, fatigue or great opportunities?" from June 19, 2025 is now available on YouTube.

Titled “Expo in Osaka: Wooden Ring Instead of Crystal Ball”, Andreas Hepp examines the range of future scenarios presented at Expo 2025 – from AI-driven life narratives to grassroots sustainability initiatives in the German newspaper taz.

The Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen welcomes media and technology expert Joyojeet Pal as a Visiting Research Fellow in June 2025.

On Saturday, 26.07.2025, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Stephanie Geise will give a presentation titled „Politik wirkt – aber wie? Wie Bilder und Texte unser politisches Denken und Handeln beeinflussen“ at the Haus der Wissenschaft and will talk about how exactly visual and linguistic messages are processed in political media content and what role they play in shaping political opinion.

Congratulations to former ZeMKI member Laura Liebig, who recently successfully defended her dissertation entitled Power Dynamics in AI Discourse!

Both the workshop and talk dealt with “the fictional”, using examples of games “that were never played” and the use of Communicative AI for NPC characters.