ZeMKI

Dr. Daria Dergacheva at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference in September

ZeMKI member Dr. Daria Dergacheva will be presenting at ECREA’s 2024 pre-conference “The Informational Influence of Autocracies Abroad” in Ljublyana, Slovenia, on September 23rd 2024.

22. July 2024

New Article: „How Negative Media Coverage Impacts Platform Governance“ by Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach

An important publication from the Lab’s own Dr. Prof. Christian Katzenbach in collaboration with colleagues was published.

19. July 2024

ZeMKI member Dr. Dennis Redeker gives lecture on platform regulation at the Haus der Wissenschaft

On 13 July 2024, Dr. Dennis Redeker, ZeMKI member and postdoc in the "Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab" (Prof. Dr. Katzenbach), spoke about social media platforms and their regulation as part of the "Wissen um 11 (Knowledge at 11)" lecture series at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen.

15. July 2024

Lecture by Prof. Andreas Hepp: "Why communities cannot be digital - and yet digital media and their infrastructures are fundamentally changing processes of communitization"

ZeMKI member Prof. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the conference "Digital Communities - Social proximity from a spatial distance" on Thursday, July 18, 2024.

15. July 2024

ZeMKI member Dr. Viejo Otero presenting at the SMSociety conference in London, July 17th.

ZeMKI member Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero will be presenting at the Social Media and Society Conference (#SMSociety) in London on July 17th. Dr. Viejo Otero will present her paper titled "'We do not marshal your feed': How AltTech platforms conceptualize safety".

15. July 2024

New ZeMKI-Member in the Lab Media and Religion: Welcome Amrei Sander!

Dr. Amrei Sander has been a research associate in the project "The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19" in the Lab Media and Religion at the ZeMKI since July 2024.

12. July 2024

Two new publications by ZeMKI member Philip Sinner in the field of sports communication

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".

11. July 2024

Article on Mobile Tracking by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab

A new paper by Patrick Zerrer and Cornelius Puschmann from the DCID Lab together with ZeMKI members Philipp Krieter and Stephanie Geise investigates mobile keyword tracking as a privacy-friendly data source in mobile media research.

5. July 2024

New DFG Research Unit on the automation of societal communication

The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen, together with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in Hamburg and other research institutions in Graz and Vienna, has successfully acquired a Research Unit from the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the topic of "Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI)”.

3. July 2024

ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford longlisted for the Enter Award 2024!

ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has been longlisted for the Enter Award 2024. The award recognizes two outstanding achievements in the field of open access and sets an example for the democratization of knowledge.

2. July 2024

Research Colloquium: Dr. Julia Borst (University of Bremen): "How and Why Do Literary Scholars Study Websites? – Insights into a Research Project on Afroeuropean Activism in the Digital Space"

On 03/07/2024 the research colloquium of Dr. Julia Borst (University of Bremen) will take place.

1. July 2024

ZeMKI-News

ZeMKI Summer Party with molo.news and The Educators

Next Wednesday, July 3rd, the ZeMKI summer party with molo.news, the information platform for Bremen and Leipzig, will take place. Current and former members of ZeMKI will come together to end the summer semester with drinks and barbecue in a relaxed atmosphere. A special highlight of the party will be a live performance by the band "The Educators".

1. July 2024

ZeMKI Research Day

On July 1, the members of the ZeMKI will meet to discuss joint research perspectives. At the internal conference, ZeMKI members will present the current status of their research projects in two poster sessions and discuss perspectives for the joint medium-term research strategy up to the year 2030.

30. June 2024

Online Talk Series (11): Friederike Quint & Yannis Theocharis: 'Does the Community Understand the Community Guidelines?'

9. Juli 2024, 13:00 – 14:00 Uhr: In the next edition of our online talk series "Behind the Scenes - Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research", Friederike Quint and Yannis Theocharis will talk about the role of community guidelines on social media platforms for users when evaluating potentially harmful content.

26. June 2024

Appointment as ICA Fellow: High honor for Andreas Hepp

Special honor for the spokesperson of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen: At the meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Gold Coast, Australia, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp was appointed ICA Fellow on June 22, 2024.

24. June 2024

New ZeMKI Working Paper: "Auditing the Text Understandability of German Public Administration Websites"

Recently, a new working paper by former ZeMKI member Dr. Henrik Heuer et al. was published.

21. June 2024

Invitation to the Conference: “Intertwining and Rethinking Digitalization, Society and Co-Worlds from a Queer Feminist Perspective”

Luisa Runge (M2C Institute for Applied Media Research, Bremen University of Applied Sciences) and Miira Hill (DCID, ZeMKI) have qualified for the conference “Intertwining and Rethinking Digitalization, Society, and Co-Worlds from a Queer Feminist Perspective” at Leibniz University Hannover with their contribution “Queer Feminist Perspectives on TikTok: A Critical Analysis of Sexism and Platform Governance.”

21. June 2024

Philip Sinner visits the University of Luxembourg

ZeMKI member Dr Philip Sinner was invited by Prof Dr Robin Samuel, Dr Anette Schumacher, Dr Hannes Käckmeister, Simone Charles (Digital Documentation and Research Centre (DDRC)) and the Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg | Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse (MENJE) to the University of Luxembourg.

20. June 2024

Research Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden): "Vanishing Act - An Ethnography of Digitalization and the Disappearance of Printed News"

On 26/06/2024 the research colloquium of Prof. Dr. Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden) will take place.

20. June 2024

ZeMKI Member Dennis Redeker speaks at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance 2024

Dr. Dennis Redeker presented early results from the REMIT Horizon Europe research project at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) 2024.

20. June 2024

ComAI Lecture with Prof. Dr. Christian Greiffenhagen

On June 25, the ZeMKI will host the last ComAI Lecture in the spring semester 2024.

19. June 2024

Invitation to the Workshop 'The Playground: A Program on Taking Play Seriously in Digital Culture'

The Platform Governance Media and Technology Lab (PGMT), Radical Data and the cooperative kintsugi-lab cordinally invite to participate at a two day workshop.

19. June 2024

You got more time! Call for Paper Conference "Beyond Play" is extended to the 30th June!

Call for Paper Conference “Beyond Play” is extended to the 30th June! The conference “Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society” will be held at the ZeMKI in Bremen from 30.09. – 02.10.24. For more information click here.

18. June 2024

Research Software made at ZeMKI: Pre-release of OpenQDA is now live

The pre-release version of the "OpenQDA" software currently being developed at ZeMKI is now available.

17. June 2024