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On September 11, 2024, ZeMKI member Patrick Zerrer successfully completed his doctoral colloquium - congratulations! The title of the dissertation is “Political action and news use of the Fridays for Future Movement in Germany”.

Samira Ghozzi-Ben Miled will be a guest on September 16, 2024 at 6 p.m. at a panel event at the House of Science Bremen. The topic of the event is “Distance yourself! What happens when Muslims speak out publicly.” The panel was organized by Muslim Empowerment Bremen. For more information click here.

The INDI - Informed by Influencers project will be presented at the “Wisscomm Connected” conference in Berlin on September 11 and 12, 2024. The event is organized by the “Transfer Unit Science Communication” and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The “Wisscomm Connected” conference aims to bring together practice and research in science communication in order to promote exchange and networking.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture on Friday, 20.09.2024, at the conference “Norbert Elias in Practice - From Human Science to Applied Science” at Esslingen University.

On Saturday, 21.09.2024, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the Literarische Gesellschaft in Karlsruhe.

The article on the topic “Digital Gaming. Indicator of a profound mediatization” has now been published in the journal Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc). Click here to access the article.

Under the coordination of PGMT Lab member Dr. Dennis Redeker, the first Blended Intensive Program (BIP) took place at the University of Bremen. The Erasmus+-funded program offers teachers innovative opportunities for international cooperation and students the chance to participate in intensive short-term programs in Germany and abroad.  At the first BIP at the University of (…)

Vasilisa Kuznetsova presents a paper on misinformation about climate change and platform policies and public communication at the 6th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) held on 02-04 September 2024 in Münster.

For two days, the Bredbeck Estate in the district of Osterholz was dedicated to the further development of the research strategy of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. On September 3 and 4, 2024, a total of 14 members of the ZeMKI Steering Committee discussed medium-term goals (…)

The Lab for Digital Communication and Information Diversity at the University of Bremen is pleased to participate in the "Qualitative Digital Methods" conference (September 9-10) at Ruhr University Bochum.

ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler has published new articles in the series "Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik".

Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach from the Lab for Platform Governance, Media and Technology has published a new special issue entitled “Automation in the Digital Society” together with Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold.

On August 29, 2024, Miira Hill presented a joint paper with Luisa Runge and Christian Katzenbach at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) in Porto.

Imke A.M. Meyer and Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf gave a presentation entitled "Teaching Experience Design (TXD) Research: a case-study of the development of a classroom interaction environment in nursing education".

You can now registrate for the Beyond Play conference "The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society".

Recently, a new ZeMKI working paper entitled “The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective” was published.

Will the arrest of Telegram’s CEO in France have implications for platform regulation, in the EU and elsewhere?  The arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO and owner, has sent shockwaves through Telegram’s user base and concerns about the current state of platform regulation in France, the EU, and globally.  On Monday, the Tribunal Judiciaire de (…)

Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann and Patrick Zerrer from the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab (DCID), together with Dr. Sebastian Stier and Helena Rauxloh from the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, have published an article entitled “Politicized and Paranoid? Assessing Attitudinal Predictors of Alternative News Consumption” in the ‘Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media’.

The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period.

Sandra Kero has been a research assistant and PhD candidate in the lab "Media Change and Long-Term Transformation Processes" since July 2024

ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford has published a new journal article in Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association vol. 6, no. 3.

The Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) took place in Montréal on August 9-11, 2024.

The Registration for the conference "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society"  has now started.

On Tuesday, 08/13/24, a colloquium entitled “Religions and Covid-19 Pandemic” will take place at the Université de Montréal.