Publication

An important publication from the Lab’s own Dr. Prof. Christian Katzenbach in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Zurich as well as the Humboldt University of Berlin; Emma Hoes, K. Jonathan Klüser, Felix Hamborg, Meysam Alizadeh, Mael Kubli and Led by Nahema Marchal. “How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance”. The empirical research was (…)

ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner has published two articles in the anthology "COVID-19 und die Sportkommunikation. Der Einfluss der Corona-Pandemie auf Sport, Medien und Journalismus".

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp has published online first a new article at New Media & Society on the topic of ‘Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneering communities’. Link to the article Hepp, A. (2024). Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities. New Media & Society, Online First. doi:10.1177/14614448241253766

The dissertation of ZeMKI member Katharina Heitmann-Werner has been published by Springer VS under the title 'Zivilgesellschaft und Stadtöffentlichkeit - Eine akteurszentrierte Analyse der kommunikativen Figuration der Stadt' (Civil society and the urban public sphere - an actor-centred analysis of the communicative figuration of the city).

‘Unpacking the US TikTok ban’ Can the US government really ban TikTok? Do they really want to do that? In her blog post, ZeMKI member Rebecca Scharlach summarises the events that lead to the proposed TikTok ban in the United States, discusses the general issues that TikTok has been facing, explains the relevance of the First Amendment (…)

Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach and Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero from the “Platform Governance, Media and Technology” Lab at the University of Bremen in collaboration with Leipzig University member Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold have published a new open access article in the Human-Machine Communication Journal titled: “Smoothing Out Smart Tech’s Rough Edges: Imperfect Automation and the (…)

Verena Honkomp-Wilkens and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf from the ZeMKI Lab “Media & Education” have published a new open access article in the journal MedienPädagogik on “Diversity in explanatory videos on YouTube: Deconstruction or continuation of a gendered order in informal audio-visual educational spaces?” (DOWNLOAD). YouTube is an important social video network for teenagers (…)

The Media & Education lab has published together with Christian Pentzold (Uni Leipzig) and Nina Altmaier (Uni Tübingen) a new article on collective learning practices in the journal „Computers in the School“: Although YouTube explanatory videos are a successful genre, there has been little research into the ways they form part of adolescents’ collective learning (…)