Publication

New publication by Christian Katzenbach, Vasilisa Kuznetsova and Elizabeth Dubois on the development of election-related policies on major social media platforms and their changing responsibilities for democratic processes.

As part of the completed DFG-funded “Imaginaries of AI” project, the article “Who’s driving the AI hype in its formative phase? A longitudinal analysis of stakeholders in the US and German AI discourse on Twitter 2012–2021”, written by Dr. Vanessa Richter, Dr. Daria Dergacheva, Vasilisa Kuznetsova and Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, got published in AI and Society.

The new ZeMKI working paper by Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Carlos Gutiérrez-González, entitled “Restoring audiovisual products sustainably: innovative approaches to work with audiovisual archives” is now available. What is it about? The paper explores evolving definitions and practices surrounding archives and repositories in the digital era. It highlights the challenges of distinguishing between these terms and (…)

Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach co-authored a new article about the discursive order of AI, published in Big Data & Society.

The latest issue of Aviso features a debate entitled “Communication science at a turning point?” on the question of what the spread of AI means for communication and media studies. Andreas Hepp from ZeMKI is participating in the debate.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr Andreas Hepp, project manager of the ‘molo.news’ app, reported on the ad-free and data-saving news platform for local news in the Radio Eins podcast ‘Medienmagazin’ on 11 January 2025.

The research report presents the diverse research activities at ZeMKI since fall 2023 on 164 pages. For the first time, special attention is paid to a focus topic, which is presented on a total of 24 pages: this year communicative artificial intelligence, or ComAI for short.

ZeMKI member Dr. Leif Kramp co-authored a monograph (in German language) on digital media use in times of wars, crises and AI.