ZeMKI-News (30)

On May 7th, ZeMKI member Dr. Miira Hill will give a lecture at the University of Passau on the topic of how commentators of the far right express their views on liberal values through social platforms. The talk offers insights into the intricate dynamics of political communication, especially concerning the misrepresentation of liberal values by (…)

As part of the international symposium "Indicators of Social Cohesion in Social Media and Online Media", organised by the Social Media Observatory (SMO), Prof. Cornelius Puschmann from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID) gave a lecture entitled "Watching the Greens? Predictors and Contingencies of Partisan Online Information Seeking".

On 15/05/2024 a presentation of the first results of the international research project “The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19” will take place online from 7 pm to 9 pm.

The Call for Paper for the 2nd ZeMKI Annual Conference from 30/09/2024 to 02/10/2024 at the University of Bremen is out now! Deadline for submissions: 15/06/2024.

In June 2020, the highly anticipated sequel to “The Last of Us” game was released. Within hours of its release, the game’s Metascore dropped to 3.3, while previous reviews from journalistic media had accumulated to a score of 95. What had happened? – The common reading of this “review-bombing” event is that players, unhappy with (…)

The Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID), headed by Prof Cornelius Puschmann, is presenting three papers at the 10th European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in Ljubljana.

On 08/05/2024 the research colloquium of Dr. Matti Nelimarkka (University of Helsinki) will take place on the topic "Navigating the Visual Turn in Digital Media: 
Methodologies and Challenges for Visual Big Data".

Alex Krause joined the lab ‘Datafication and Mediatization’ at ZeMKI in April 2024 as a research assistant for the project ‘molo.news: validation of a relational platform for urban publicity’. Prior to this, he completed his B.A. (2019) and M.A. (2023) in Cultural Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His focus was on cultural change through the (…)