ZeMKI-News (7)

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.

In the summer of 2025, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen welcomes Professor Eugenia Siapera as a Visiting Research Fellow.

At ZeMKI Dr. Philip Sinner represents the research project “CoKoMeV (Covid-19, Kommunikation, Medien und Vereine)”. Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, the overall study by Christof Seeger, Jörg-Uwe Nieland, Thomas Horky, Christiana Schallhorn, Daniel Nölleke und Philip Sinner, has been investigating how popular sports clubs in Germany and Austria have dealt with communication challenges.

ZeMKI member Dr. Dennis Redeker of the “Platform Governance, Media and Technology” Lab attended the United Nation’s Internet Governance Forum 2025 in Lillestrøm, Norway and presented research results and other outputs from research conducted at ZeMKI.