Automation and Datafication of Communication

Funded by: Zentrale Forschungsförderung (ZF), Universität Bremen Elevator Pitch This postdoctoral project examines the socio-technical impact of generative AI integration into communication ecosystems. Through policy analysis, expert interviews, and user surveys, I will reassess how platform values evolve amid ongoing technological and regulatory changes. Project Overview This research investigates the principles shaping generative AI regulation (…)

Participating institutions: ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI), Hamburg Funding: Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) Facebook, X and TikTok promote radicalization and hate speech. Digital platforms and social media are therefore typically seen as problems when it comes to social cohesion. In contrast, this work package focuses (…)

Coordination project of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

The project Informed by Influencers (INDI) focusses on the way in which knowledge relevant to climate change is disseminated and consumed on social networks. The aim is to determine the proportion of social media posts on this topic and to examine the behaviour of users. In short, we want to answer the question of the (…)

Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research The aim of We The (Social) Media (WTSM) is to understand how members of social movements use social networks. This is important because millions of people use social networks to communicate, inform themselves and get in touch with each other. Social networks make it possible (…)

Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research Project duration: 2023-2026 Collaborative project for the utilization of STEM student laboratories for teacher training Student laboratories have proven to be enormously beneficial for motivation, especially interest, in the sense of subject-related motivation, in STEM topics and working methods. In addition, they were able to (…)

Following a successful test operation in Bremen, researchers are investigating how the news and information app molo.news can be made available throughout Germany. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is providing 1.5 million euros of funding for the project.

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter Funding institution: DFG – German Research Foundation The information infrastructure project (INF project) “Advancing the Global Welfare State Information System (WeSIS), eScience Services and Research Data Management” has four main objectives: (1) to further develop the Global Welfare State Information System and open WeSIS to the scientific community; (2) to (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf & Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research The joint project IMPACT promotes the improvement of higher education through the scalable use of artificial intelligence (AI) methods for the (partially) automated analysis of texts. The fundamental aim of the project is (…)

Partner: Institute for Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) & German Research Foundation (DFG) Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a key technology in today’s societies. Political and economic actors in many countries have allocated considerable resources to AI development, and the technology is the subject of (…)

Team: Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Anna Jobin, Laura Liebig, Licina Güttel Partners: Medialab at Sciences Po, Paris, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methods (CIM) at the University of Warwick, and the NENIC Lab at INRS Montreal, as well as the Algorithmic Media Observatory at Concordia University Funding: Open Research Area (ORA) funding line from DFG, ANR, (…)

The basic aim of this research project is to further develop the media diary software MeTag and the Q-Sort or free sorting software MeSort and, in doing so, to develop a model of good practice for the provision of research software in the field of media and communication.

Comparative analysis based on the study on media integration in elementary school in North Rhine-Westphalia Research association/cooperation: Institute for Information Management Bremen (ifib) Funding institution: Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM) The Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM) has commissioned ifib to evaluate the Medienpass NRW project. Building on the results of the study “Media (…)